Dear Church Family,
The world we live in is changing at a blinding pace, isn’t it? Truth has become as flexible as a rubber band. What is acceptable today will not be acceptable tomorrow. Those who used to be admired are now vilified. What used to be considered good is now considered despicable. Bad behavior is rewarded and applauded. It’s enough to make a person feel as if they’re living in a constant state of confusion, not knowing what to believe or how to react.
Confusion turns to clarity, however, when the sound doctrine of the Word of God instructs our hearts, rebukes our sins, corrects our errors and encourages us to fight the good fight, finish the race, and receive the crown of righteousness!
Join us this Sunday at 9:30 am to find out how God wants to provide clarity when our hearts cry out, “Help, I Feel So…Confused.” We will also celebrate Holy Communion together this Sunday.
ICYMI:Watch my sermon from last Sunday about how Jesus helps us overcome our feelings of being ashamed.
School-Year Church Schedule: We will continue to have only Sunday morning worship (9:30 am in English and 11:30 am in Spanish) during this school year. We’ll revaluate having a Saturday service next year after completion of our Worship and Ministry Center.
Opportunities to serve on the Set Up Team: As we are now in our temporary worship space in the high school commons, the set up is a little bigger than what we did in the auditorium. Each Saturday at 3:00 pm a team of volunteers meets to get the space ready for the service. It is always much easier with more people to help. Our goal is to double our team from last year so that volunteers would only need to serve about once a month. Are you willing/able to join our team? It’s just a matter of moving chairs, tables, equipment, etc. Please let Staff Minister Becky know if we can count on you! If you haven’t yet seen all of the opportunities our church family has to serve, click here and find something you’re interested in!
Harvest Strategy Summit – Have you ever wondered, “How do we connect the families of our school with our church?” “How do we connect these families to Jesus for life?” This Sunday, August 28th after worship, we are going to gather together as a church to talk about our plan as one ministry to reach the families of our school with the gospel. We hope everyone from our church can be there. Click here to see a special video invite from Pastor Caleb. Attached is a pdf of the document Pastor Caleb will go through. Feel free to read through it ahead of time.
What’s Going On? We have many exciting new opportunities coming up in the next few weeks! Stay tuned to all of those by using the Divine Savior Church App. Content is updated frequently. Explore the resources you have to grow and connect. Find links and more details to all of our opportunities, etc. Free to download.
“$2,025 for 3 Years” – Now that we are moving into the construction phase of our building project, it is important that we follow through with our funding plan. In order to build our new Worship and Ministry Center we determined as a church that together we would pull “five levers” to make it financially possible. The biggest “lever” is this special campaign whereby we hope many of our members will give over and above their regular offerings at least $2,025 a year for the next 3 years. Please visit our special campaign web page for more info and to either 1) make your total 3 year pledge there, or 2) make a contribution toward your pledged amount. We need at least 25 giving units from our church to participate in this campaign in order to sustain the mortgage and carry out our ministry plan. Currently we have 18 people who have pledged. Thank you to those who are on board and to all who are prayerfully considering it!
Invite a Friend to Welcome Back Sunday! Who can you invite to attend our special Welcome Back Sunday service on September 11? Maybe it’s a friend or family member, a co-worker or neighbor? Maybe they’ve never joined us for worship. Or maybe its been a while. Bring them with you or plan to meet them at the door. We want to support them and their family, growing spiritually as a family in Christ. We’ll have light refreshments to follow and an opportunity to visit with others!
Save the Date
• Sunday, Aug 28 Harvest Strategy Summit
• Sunday, September 11 Welcome Back Sunday
• Wednesday, September 21 Discover DSC Event
DSC on YouTube: Watch past messages and worship services on-demand on our church YouTube channel.
Giving: To give simply follow this link to go to our secure giving page, or click Give at the bottom of the church app. You can make one-time special gifts or set up recurring gifts as well. Thank you for keeping in mind that setting up your regular giving via ACH vs credit card saves our church over 2% in additional fees.
Changing Lives with Jesus,
Pastor Ben
