The Power Sunday School Class

Class,

Susan and I will be traveling this weekend checking on parents and visiting with some dear friends who are in from California. We’ll miss you all greatly but you are in wonderful hands with Mark Robnett’s teaching. Mark and Susan have been such a blessing to me and I know Mark’s heart is to see us moved to ACTION by James chapter 4.

Reminder to all men: Mark will be hosting another Men’s Bible Study on this coming Thursday the 27th at their home. He’ll have more on this tomorrow morning.

Don’t be “back row” Baptists – I LOVE our new room assignment (thanks Paul Hahn) because not only is the temperature cooler (might even bring a sweater ladies), there is room to grow! After a first Sunday in the space I’ve made a couple of observations:

We will have to be diligent to make sure the seating is closer to the podium so the teacher doesn’t lose the great engagement I have with this class.
In the old room if you sat on the back row it was still close…we need to avoid being “back row” Baptists. Encourage all to sit closer to the front and leave the back rows for growth.
We’ll use “back row” and spare seats to form the Care Groups in the corner and keep as much of the front row in tact
I’m challenged by all those beautiful, empty seats in the new space. Let’s get busy personally inviting friends to visit us. More on this in weeks to come.

Next Sunday for 5th Sunday –

We’ll have a time of fellowship and testimony. I’ll be inviting anyone who feels led to share a brief (one minute or less) testimony of how God is working in your life. Then we’ll allow a generous amount of our time for Jason Shawa to share his testimony. Jason has shared with me and I assure you it will be a blessing to hear what God has done in Jason and Charlene’s life. Lori Kennedy will share a song with us and I’ll wrap us up with some thoughts as we reflect on our study in the book of James.

Psalms – In our next quarter of Bible Study we will take up the Psalms. I can’t wait to dip into this deep well!

Volunteers – We’ve talked about and been praying for a few key volunteers including leaders for another Care Group. The response has been tepid. I plan to do some personal approaches on this so please pray further about your willingness to help.

Class Calendar Notifications – The new online Class Calendar (here: http://tinyurl.com/klkubd ) will send email notifications for class socials and events. If you’d like to receive these please send me an email reply and we’ll set this up.

Love Loud – Your Leadership Team has already been reviewing the list of opportunities for Love Loud and will submit our first, second, and third choices to Craig Ormsby. More on this to come.

Leadership Team Meeting NEXT SUNDAY August 30th – 11 a.m. in the Prayer Room next to the Sunday School office in the A building. The online calendar has it for THIS Sunday because normally it’s the 4th Sunday but it is INDEED the 30th.

Know that Susan and I love all of you.

Allen