Monday, April 2, 2012

A wonderful Monday to you!  It's great to be at Bear Valley.  When you look at the many visitors who are coming to every service.  Let's do what we can to reach out to every one of them!  

Our Missions Committee has challenged us this month to pray for our missionaries each and every day, petitioning the Father on their behalf in some specific way.  Let us know if you did not pick up a copy of the prayer list yesterday.  Missions Sunday is May 13th, and we've been challenged to set aside (in addition to our regular contribution) $141.75 per family to meet the evangelistic and spiritual objectives in our four mission works.

The men's monthly breakfast continues to be such a great fellowship opportunity.  Plus, we've had so many non-Christians in attendance for this.  It's a way to think souls in a non-threatening environment.  We have a new meeting place, since the Country Buffet on Wadsworth has closed.  April 14, we will meet at the Country Buffet at 301 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, CO 80110 (Sante Fe and Hampden).  We meet and eat at 8 A.M.

Our teens have a slate full of activities for the month of April.  Brett has so many ways to keep you informed and updated.  See him if you are not receiving updates.  Just to highlight a few of them, this is the month to help with the Mountain States Childrens Home phone drive, the Prom Alternative, a parent meeting, two Sunday night teen devotions, a ski trip, and next month our first Youth Rally in several years!  

Deacons and preachers, let's remember to meet with the elders this month on April 21st.  These are only quarterly now, and the elders want every deacon there.  It's only about 90 minutes four times a year.  What a great way to communicate, plan, and inquire about the awesome work we have here.

On April 29th, we are going to celebrate 50 years in existence as a congregation.  So many wonderful people through the years have helped to strengthen the Lord's church universal.  Please get the information forms back to box 170 ASAP and also turn in either to that mailbox or the office pictures, statistics, and other relevant information that will help us as we remember the past.  My sermon that morning will be pointing us toward the future of the Bear Valley congregation, as God allows us to live, plan, and work.

It won't be very long until our Spring Seminar. It is being billed as an "Encouragement Seminar" and is a prime opportunity for us to have non-members attend with us.  Allen Webster does a fantastic job preaching the Word.

I will be out a pocket a few days this month.  Kathy and I will leave late Sunday night, 4/8/12, to travel to Austin, TX, where we will speak on the Southwest Lectures.  We will be back Wednesday morning.  Dale will go with me to Katy, TX, where I will hold a weekend gospel meeting, Friday-Sunday (4/13-4/15).  I appreciate your prayers and encouragement when I have opportunities like this to represent this great church and proclaim the greatest news of all.