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Note from Chuck

Posted August 5, 2010 by Chuck | Chuck's Thoughts

Hi Everyone!

It’s happening as quickly as it began.  Summer is ending.  I know this because Wal-Mart and Target are filled with school supplies, cardboard cut outs of school buses, fresh Dora and Batman lunch kits, and backpacks.  And I also attended an orientation for my sixth-grader today! 

Our rhythm here at Crossbridge follows the school calendar, so as summer ends and as the fall kicks off a new school year, TV season, football season, and most importantly church ministry season, you will notice a lot to stuff kicking off here, as well. 

The biggest thing this fall is COMMUNITY GROUPS.  Our church is like a plane, and a plane needs two wings.  Our two wings are Sunday Worship Gatherings and Community Groups.  We will have 13 Community Groups starting this fall.  On Sunday, August 15, you will be able to stop at our information table and talk to one of our Group Coaches about which group would be right for you.  If you are not in community with other believers, I don’t know how you can really grow as a Christian.  Community Groups are our main way to foster Gospel-Centered Community here at Crossbridge.  If you want to learn more about life in our Community Groups, check out these awesome videos that our video team made here.  Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the videos.

Also, our ministry to teenagers (6^th-12^th grade) is going through some awesome changes.  Teen Chaos, our weekly Bible Study event, will be moving to Sunday mornings beginning September 12!  TC will meet in the aerobic room at One 2 One Training next door.  The gym is awesome to work with!  Due to their needs though, we will only be able to have TC during the 9:30am Worship Service.  If you are a family with teenagers let me encourage you to come at 9:30, let your teen go to TC, and you serve in Crossbridge Kids!  Then at 11:15, come worship as a family!  Something for you to pray and think about, but I know you want to! :)  There are other teen events happening, read about them further down in this update.  I am excited about what God is doing with our teenagers!

PARTNERS’ NIGHT is August 25^th.  If you are a Partner of Crossbridge, I want to invite you to share an experience with me.  We will meet from 7:00-9:00pm to celebrate our God and talk about this new season of ministry and what it means for us to truly partner in the gospel together.  We are planning some special things so let me encourage you to do what it takes to be there.

Now, mark your calendars for PARTY ON THE PORCH!  Crossbridge is turning 8 years old this September, so we are going to throw a Birthday Party on September 19, and we want to invite the whole city to join us!  After each service, we will have hot dogs, birthday Cake, face painters, balloon artists, and some more surprises!  This will be an awesome Sunday to introduce a friend to Crossbridge.  We will be kicking off a new series that Sunday based on a passage from Mark 7.  The series is called “IT CAME FROM WITHIN.” 

I told you there was a lot of stuff! I could go on and on about Ladies Bible Study, Saturday Seminars, Spectrum Art Show, and Halloween Block Parties, but our brains might explode, so I will leave you with one of my favorite passages from 2 Corinthians 5:17-21…

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 

See-ya Sunday!

Chuck

 

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