First of all, if you have not heard, the amount pledged for the “The House” Campaign was $537,000. Praise God! The good news is, we expect more pledges to come in this week. We will keep you updated. We did come up short of our goal of $700,000. I had a lot of people tell me they wanted to pledge, but because of the economy, simply could not. There is no question, this is a difficult season for many. But we are confident in God’s direction and thankful for His provision.
Please be praying for the Elder team as we decide on next steps for the building. We need to see the final pledge amount and we are going to get actual “hard” bids on the expansion. The actual bids, we believe, will be lower than our projected cost estimated for the expansion. Let’s pray they are a lot lower. We will keep the communication lines wide open. But we need your prayers!
I loved the energy, the excitement and worship on Sunday! There is no question, God is moving in our midst! Let’s keep praying and believing for great things and for lives to be changed. I have never been more excited about our church!
Remember: Jesus is alive and the back of the book says, “We win!” Let’s live like it!
The Luck family attended the University of Alabama’s Spring Football game, A-Day. There were 91,000 people in attendance to watch this practice game. Needless to say, Coach Saban and I were very pleased with the outcome.
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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!
Our church is amazing! Let’s keep it up!
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