Missionary Meet N’ Greet

Thursday night, Oct. 23 from 7:00 to 8:30,
we’ll have an informal time with one of the
missionaries here for our World Impact Festival.
If you think you’ll be there, sign up on Tuggle
so we’ll know how many to plan for.
And if you don’t sign up,
come anyway!

Nothing But Christ: Disciple Now 2008

Disciple Now 2008 is just a few weeks away, on November 7th – 9th!  It’s going to be a great weekend of focusing on Christ, making new friends and great memories, and showing Christ’s love through serving.

It starts Friday evening, Nov. 7th (after you drop off your stuff at your host home) with the opening session and supper at the church.  Then we’re heading out to play broomball (this video isn’t us, but you’ll get the idea).

After Saturday morning’s session we’re having lunch (Bear Rock Cafe!), and going out in the afternoon to serve others.  The last session is on Saturday evening, then you’ll come to church Sunday morning with your home group.

Early registration ends on October 12th, when the cost goes up, and registration is over on October 19th.  A $10 deposit reserves your place.  From now on we’re doing DNOW every other year, so don’t miss DNOW 2008!!!

At DV8: Underground Reality

A MISSION TO SMUGGLE BIBLES.
A JOURNEY THAT WOULD
CHANGE THEIR LIVES.

What happens when eight ordinary teens set out on a mission to meet the underground church in Vietnam?  Travel with The Voice of the Martyrs and a group of American and Australian teenagers as they journey through cities and jungles in order to witness the everyday life of the Vietnamese underground church.

Documented in four episodes, Underground Reality highlights every step of this incredible journey
that ultimately asks,
“How far are you willing to go for your faith?”

October 8th & 15th *  7:00 to 8:30

The Big News

We’re making some changes to the scheduling of some of our yearly “big” events.  One change is that WOW Weekend and Disciple Now will happen every other year; that means that after this year, the next WOW Weekend and Disciple Now will be in 2010.

In the years that we do not have these events, we will either go to camp in the summer, or do a major mission trip.  For next summer, we have been invited to go to camp, at Camp Buckner in Marble Falls, with Graceway Baptist Church, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  The dates for camp in 2009 will be July 20 – 24, and it is going to be a great week.

By doing “either/or”, we can take the budget money from the event we’re not doing that year and put it towards the one we are doing.  This can result in bringing the price you pay down, or we can add some special extras that we could not afford before, or maybe both.  So enjoy WOW Weekend and Disciple Now this year, and mark your calendar and plan to go to camp July 20-24 next year!

DV8 Wrap-Up for Sept. 10th

James 3:1-12 deals with our speech, and the fact that it is a clear indicator of our own spiritual health (see James 1:26).  The tongue, though a small part of the body, has great power to wound and even destroy.  It is like fire, which can both benefit and kill, depending on how it’s controlled.

We all have not only found ourselves in trouble because of words we have spoken, but have been on the receiving end of words that wounded us, and though they do heal over time, these wounds never completely go away.  This should make us more careful about the words we speak.

Harsh words, gossip, lying, and outbursts of anger have no place in the life of a follower of Jesus.  But the words are only a symptom of the condition of the heart.  When we develop deep roots in God’s Word and abide with Him daily, and also remind ourselves of the gospel – that God granted us mercy instead of justice, based on the work of Christ at the cross of Calvary – the result is an overflow from our heart that will “impart grace to the hearers” (Eph. 4:29).

This video, “For Those Who Have Been Hurt by Words”, features Paul Tripp, who will be speaking at the Desiring God National Conference later this month.