Welcome to the New Year! Please take a moment to read over the PCF happenings and dreams for 2016.
Prayers are so important! The following friends are in need of prayer.
Chuck Weiss is at Barnes hospital with atrial fib and may need a heart valve surgery.
Terry Coy, Rick Coy's wife is battling cancer.
Stan Rutkowski has compression wound that needs healing. Stan has been battling this for a couple of years now.
Connor McAleenan, Mary and Lee Knapp's grandson healing from severe brain trauma.
Coffee and Donuts. We need volunteers on the Sundays that we lead worship to make coffee and bring the donuts or baked goods that we place in the annex. We will be leading worship this coming Sunday the 17th. Also looking for a committee chairperson who would coordinate this for the two Sundays a month that we lead worship. Contact Kent if you would be willing to help.
Weekend Free Lunch Box Ministry. We have a wonderful ministry started by Faye Heuchert, Free Lunches for Kids on weekends. We are serving approx. 50 lunches to children with limited family means every weekend at two locations here in the Edwardsville Glen Carbon area. We need a group of rotating volunteers who could sign up for a Saturday morning delivery from 9:00am to 10:00am and/or to help pack lunches usually on Thursday evenings. This is a very rewarding activity. We also are looking for someone to coordinate this schedule!
High School Youth Bible Study, Double Edge. We have a youth bible study group that meets 2 x a month in the church basement. They meet on Saturday evenings from 6:00pm till about 7:30pm. We need a rotating group of volunteers to chaperone while this group meets. The chaperone will also make sure there are soda's and Pizza or some other food item available for the group. The church will re-imburse the volunteers for the food and drinks. There is no preparation necessary to chaperone this group. I have been with them and they are self led and are a very wonderful group of young adults. This group is led by Lydia Bertels a senior in High school. Their next meeting is January 23rd and then will continue on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month.
Technically inclined individual for Sunday morning slides and videos. This person would be in charge of running the slides and videos used during worship service. Must understand how to run and use the computer technology necessary for this ministry. You would sit in the balcony each Sunday next to Ken Winchester our sound technician to operate the visuals.
Thursdays evenings are music rehearsals. We typically meet from 7:00pm till about 9:30pm to prepare for Sunday worship but have been known to go to 10:00pm. Ken Winchester gets to church before the band and choir members and sets up the microphones, music stands, hooks up equipment and tests the setup before the band and choir arrive. He is also usually one of the last ones to leave. Thank you Ken! It would be good to have a backup since Ken is really "the guy" right now. If you have an interest in the technical aspect of running sound and would like to become part of the music worship team, please let us know.
Dreams for PCF Bonni and I still dream of putting together a large choir. We both feel that music is the gateway to opening the heart to God's spirit. We have a wonderful group of gals who harmonize like angels and we will continue to develop this group. But, we also would love to someday have a Raise The Praise type choir to fill the sanctuary with songs of praise. We are planning and praying for this to start happening. We both dream of what Sundays would be like with a 50, 60, 100+ member choir singing praises with power.
What are your Dreams for PCF? Got an idea? Let me know.
How you can help this ministry now! Some of you might ask how you can help this ministry. The best way is to stay active and get involved. Be there for the church! When I said yes to this call from the original "Breakfast Club" 4 years ago I knew that we had a very special group of people. We are so unique because we are a volunteer church. We don't have the payrolls and mortgage that so many churches are burdened with. I pastor out of passion, not because it is my job! I told Chuck Weiss just a few days ago when I was visiting Him at the hospital that if being a pastor ever becomes a job, it would be time for me to step down. I don't know what God is moving you to do, but I would bet that if you would go to Him in prayer today and ask, He will lead you to your ministry. Pray for the church. Pray for me. I need guidance just like everyone.
I do believe it is time to start dreaming big! God does BIG things. Miraculous things but He does them through us; little, weak, many times broken people! We learned this when we were still little children and sang the song, "Jesus Loves Me," "we are weak but He is Strong!"
Yes it is cold outside, but God can work through us in any temperature. I know that out there in the frozen earth there are hundreds of bulbs lying dormant, seemingly lifeless. Yet, when the conditions become right, they are going to burst out of the cold ground into the sunshine into an array of beautiful, colorful, and fragrant blooms! It will be amazing. Your dreams are also like those dormant flower bulbs. Just lying there waiting for the conditions to be right. Lift your hands in praise and Ask, Seek, Knock. Let's all join hands and see how much we can accomplish this year for God's Kingdom! Let's dream big! Amen! Contact kent @ 618-334-3575
Ephesians 3:20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
See you Sunday at 9:00am 800 North Main Edwardsville! Love, pastor kent
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