This morning was one of the most incredible services I can remember at SCC! I was blown away to see so many couples down front renewing their marriage vows. Seeing God work in this way never gets old!!
I really do appreciate everyone’s willingness to change. I know our current service times are not the preference for some people, but we are doing it to create more room at the 11am service. And that we did. So, instead of our 11am service being 80% capacity, we now have more “optimum seats at the optimum time.”
We were watching the parking lot very closely in between our worship experiences. It is becoming more clear to us that we will have to pave more parking spaces. And at $1,000 a space, parking is not cheap. We will keep you posted on this as we move forward.
We were really pleased with Married Life Live. It was a huge win for our church and for our community! Next week, we will move into full evaluation mode, but the early feedback was very positive. There is always something we can do better, but I am excited about the birth of this ministry in our community. There is no question, this has been a great month for marriages at SCC! Please pray for us as we ask God what His next step for this ministry is. By the way, I really thought Jarret and Morgan were hilarious as emcees. We will be looking to bring them back very soon for your enjoyment!
Next week, we will be kicking off a new series called, Simply Miraculous. Invite your friends, your family, your neighbors…everyone you can think of. Leading up to Easter, we are going to be focusing on Jesus and His power in our lives. This Sunday, I will talk about Jesus’ power to calm the storms of life. Don’t miss it!
This coming Friday night, we are launching a new ministry to our community called Married Life Live. What began as a dream about 5 years ago, has now become a reality. It is our observation that people in our community are struggling in their marriages. And it seems like most churches in our community are focusing on developing sports ministries rather than seriously addressing felt needs that our community has. And so armed with the conviction something must be done, we stepped out in faith last fall and began planning for this Friday night. The response has been overwhelming. We are sold out! Married Life Live will be our largest gathering ever as a church. And even more amazing is the reality that we are still getting requests for tickets. We have touched a nerve and captured the buzz!
Our strategy is to encourage couples to invest heavily into their marriages. Ultimately, our goal is to use this felt need for a better marriage to bring people to Christ. We are not sure where God is taking us, but we are excited we are taking a huge first step in just a matter of days!
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Miki Bolton, leader of our Outreach Team at SCC, sent sent me an email with some feedback that she had received from our Christmas outreach. As you might remember, our church adopted 15 needy families for Christmas from our community. We also did a “Giving Tree” where we provided 125 gifts to kids in our community who were also in need. Some of these families ended up attending our Christmas Eve worship experience because we reached out to them in love. Here is just some of the feedback we received from our own SCC members who participated in the outreach. It illustrates beautifully why I love our church.
From Heather:
“I have already delivered our gifts to our adopted family. They are really sweet! Would love for our church to stay in touch with this family. They are currently looking for new inexpensive housing so if anyone knows of anything please contact me or the family. They have such consuming health issues it is hard for them to attend church services but she definitely seemed open to the word and God’s love. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to meet this precious family.”
From Steve and Laura:
“I am so thankful that we had the opportunity to serve someone in need this Christmas. My husband and I wanted all of our family to participate in a project such as this. Last evening we loaded the kids in the car (some were a little grumpy at first) and headed off to the store. Once the shopping commenced, everyone seriously went into action looking for just the right gift! We all began to have fun and didn’t mind sacrificing time to bless another person in need. The gifts were delivered and the family was very grateful. Thank you for organizing this project and giving our family an opportunity reach out to another. We were so blessed!!!”
This one is from Melanie:
“Hi! We delivered everything to our adopted family on Wednesday evening. They were great. We spent time talking with them. They do have an older daughter, 19 who lives with them that wasn’t on the list. So we are going to send her some $ for her classes she is taking in January.”
From Debra and Rick:
“We delivered our presents to our family on Wednesday. They were very appreciative. I told them to give the gifts to the children from them. We felt blessed to be able to help.”
This was a note that Miki received from one of the families we ministered to. It shows you how powerful sacrificial love can be.
“I want to thank you from the bottom on my heart! This means so much to me and will be such a blessing for my boys! I can’t wait to the day when I can help someone else out who is in need…But now under my circumstances, God has provided in so many ways for my boys and I. So each and every day I wake up I thank him for his guidance, understanding, and for walking with me every step of the way! I could go on about the many blessings that have happened. But the day you called me I was is shock as I knew it was going to be hard for me to give my boys a Christmas they deserved. I was so blessed by your call! …As I said this means so much to me and I promise you one day I will pay it forward! I am a big believer in that!
