As we begin a new year, let’s look with great anticipation of what God can do to and through us. We want to create opportunities for everyone to take steps to enter the next level in spiritual growth.
We are going to kick off the new year with a series, Living on the Ridge. How many of you know where our name comes from? We will be looking this along with all of its implications, casting our vision for at least this month, perhaps longer.
This week, we are traveling to Mount Sinai with Moses and the Israelites, just after they crossed the Red Sea. Our text will come from Exodus 19.9-22. Our title for the first week of our series is Invitation to the Ridge. I’m really excited to begin this part of our journey.
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In our first week of prayer gatherings, between the two meetings we had half of the church show up! If we truly want God to work and do great and mighty things among us, this is a great start!
Some entered into the discipline of fasting for the first time this week. This avenue opens us up to an entirely new and exciting place to be in God.
The parallels between the physical and spiritual are striking, and some of you shared some of this: our bodies are cleansed, and our spirits are, too; we hunger for food, we hunger for God; we feel weak in our bodies, we realize in our spirits how weak and needy we are for the Lord.
This is a great discipline to consider entering into on a weekly basis. We’ll be looking into this in more detail later.
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On Sunday, January 21, we will be holding a new member meeting immediately after the morning service for anyone who would like to become a formal member of The Ridge. If you are not a formal member, but would like to be, please email or text me and let me know you are interested.
We will provide a meal after the service to go along with this meeting. So you can become a member of the best church in Fort Wayne and get free food all at the same time!
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The following week, January 28, we will have a congregational meeting to approve the 2018 budget, and to share some exciting things going on at The Ridge, as well as to give everyone some important information on a number of issues.
The church is providing pizza for the meal, so you don’t want to miss out!
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We still have a need for a few more of you to join Exodus 17, being willing to be a purposeful prayer partner with me for one day a week.
If you are interested, please contact Stephanie, Connie, Maria, or myself.
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There is still need of someone to sign on as librarian for the worship team. This would involve maintaining our music files, and putting our sheet music away every week. This would normally only take about 10 or 15 minutes a week.
I also could use someone to help me put together the announcements on PowerPoint every week . If this is something that interests you, please let me know!
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Here are the songs we will be using on Sunday (just click on the link to hear the song and see the lyrics as it plays):