10/15/14
Something that is on my mind and I want to share. Monday Night Service is a ministry that was founded on bringing more teaching and spiritual growth to those that are served by the pantry. The Bible study was a integral part of the purpose of Monday Night Service. It was to give those touched on Saturday morning pantry the means to "give them more" in coming alongside their journey to and with Jesus.
As you know many of our serving volunteers may not be able to stay for the entire evening. Some come to lead worship and some have to leave after providing and serving the meal. However, it has been burdened my heart that all of the core ministry team does not participate in the entire ministry of a Monday Night which I would like to see change.
I feel it is important that each of us as the core ministry team be there for the entire ministry from worship, to meal and to the Bible study. It is why we are there. While there is a physical meal, for many of the beginning years the purpose of Monday was the feeding of the Word of God. If the core ministry team/leads do not find it important to stay for the Bible study, this is not in line with the vision for the ministry in which Monday Night Service was started.
I would like for you to pray and seek the Lord's direction. I am also asking that if you are a core team member of this ministry that you stay for the Bible study. When I return from Chicago, we can discuss this individually and as a group, but it saddens me that this ministry's entire core team does not stay for the Bible study.
- Kelly
10/24/14
Hello everyone, below you will find the schedule for this coming 4th Monday of the month. Greg, you and your group are on for worship and the meal. Jim you are finishing us up in the book of Romans, Chapter 16. What a wonderful time it has been in the book of Romans.
Starting this Monday we will be switching up the schedule of activities during the course of the evening, please be sure to review the new evening timeline below:
5:30 Doors Open to guests (group/meal should be here)
6:00-6:10 Announcements
6:10-6:40 Worship
6:40-7:10 Bible Study
7:10-7:40 Meal and then cleanup
(food served by small group)
Cleanup- group helps clean up pantry and kitchen.
All serving, kitchen and other activities will pause during the teaching/message.
Matthew 4:4 - Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ " (Deut. 8:4)
Tonight as I drove back from the Pantry I reflected on this past weekend.
God's will too great to be considered a coincidence.
There in the wilderness in that far off place witnessing what I saw.
What do I do with this?
I didn't ask for any of it but here I am.
What would You have me do?
Ed said tonight we will not have the meal after the bible study.
all volunteers are welcome no matter if they can stay for the full time or not.
I sat there in that building listening to the two of them speak thinking about the years we have spent together. How many cups of coffee and scoops of potato salad have we seen pass through that building.
And there I was sitting on a log stoking the fire as my friends and I set up camp and prepared dinner after the half day hike to where we would rest for the night. Why was I there at that time? The original plan was to start Friday night. Why that forest to hike through? Why that weekend? It was suppose to be earlier in the month but schedules shifted. That moment in time that collision course orchestrated perfectly and me there on the log blank into the fire and words, empty words, rattled into my ears and soaked in my brain. Words but words seem so silent with the scream of sight.
Why did we bring the dog? It was a last minute add to the crew and without it's leash it wouldn't have wondered off. Mutual friends too strange. The whole situation too much to process as I sit jabbing the pile of embers.
Now what?
ignore it?
attack with it?
invite a third party?
The older I get the more curtains in life I seem to pull back. Is any of it real?
Are there any sincere?
oh how I thirst for something genuine. Something I can put a flag in and know this, this is a rock that will not wash away. But where do I find such a thing?
Does one even exist? and if not what does that mean as far as pulling curtains? Will I one day pull the final one and confirm my greatest fear?
But this entire situation it seems to strange to be chance.
Christ show me the way. Let me drink from Your peace. Let me rest on Your path. Show me oh Lord.
Down in the River to Pray - Alison Krauss
Something that is on my mind and I want to share. Monday Night Service is a ministry that was founded on bringing more teaching and spiritual growth to those that are served by the pantry. The Bible study was a integral part of the purpose of Monday Night Service. It was to give those touched on Saturday morning pantry the means to "give them more" in coming alongside their journey to and with Jesus.
As you know many of our serving volunteers may not be able to stay for the entire evening. Some come to lead worship and some have to leave after providing and serving the meal. However, it has been burdened my heart that all of the core ministry team does not participate in the entire ministry of a Monday Night which I would like to see change.
I feel it is important that each of us as the core ministry team be there for the entire ministry from worship, to meal and to the Bible study. It is why we are there. While there is a physical meal, for many of the beginning years the purpose of Monday was the feeding of the Word of God. If the core ministry team/leads do not find it important to stay for the Bible study, this is not in line with the vision for the ministry in which Monday Night Service was started.
I would like for you to pray and seek the Lord's direction. I am also asking that if you are a core team member of this ministry that you stay for the Bible study. When I return from Chicago, we can discuss this individually and as a group, but it saddens me that this ministry's entire core team does not stay for the Bible study.
- Kelly
10/24/14
Hello everyone, below you will find the schedule for this coming 4th Monday of the month. Greg, you and your group are on for worship and the meal. Jim you are finishing us up in the book of Romans, Chapter 16. What a wonderful time it has been in the book of Romans.
Starting this Monday we will be switching up the schedule of activities during the course of the evening, please be sure to review the new evening timeline below:
5:30 Doors Open to guests (group/meal should be here)
6:00-6:10 Announcements
6:10-6:40 Worship
6:40-7:10 Bible Study
7:10-7:40 Meal and then cleanup
(food served by small group)
Cleanup- group helps clean up pantry and kitchen.
All serving, kitchen and other activities will pause during the teaching/message.
Matthew 4:4 - Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ " (Deut. 8:4)
Tonight as I drove back from the Pantry I reflected on this past weekend.
God's will too great to be considered a coincidence.
There in the wilderness in that far off place witnessing what I saw.
What do I do with this?
I didn't ask for any of it but here I am.
What would You have me do?
Ed said tonight we will not have the meal after the bible study.
all volunteers are welcome no matter if they can stay for the full time or not.
I sat there in that building listening to the two of them speak thinking about the years we have spent together. How many cups of coffee and scoops of potato salad have we seen pass through that building.
And there I was sitting on a log stoking the fire as my friends and I set up camp and prepared dinner after the half day hike to where we would rest for the night. Why was I there at that time? The original plan was to start Friday night. Why that forest to hike through? Why that weekend? It was suppose to be earlier in the month but schedules shifted. That moment in time that collision course orchestrated perfectly and me there on the log blank into the fire and words, empty words, rattled into my ears and soaked in my brain. Words but words seem so silent with the scream of sight.
Why did we bring the dog? It was a last minute add to the crew and without it's leash it wouldn't have wondered off. Mutual friends too strange. The whole situation too much to process as I sit jabbing the pile of embers.
Now what?
ignore it?
attack with it?
invite a third party?
The older I get the more curtains in life I seem to pull back. Is any of it real?
Are there any sincere?
oh how I thirst for something genuine. Something I can put a flag in and know this, this is a rock that will not wash away. But where do I find such a thing?
Does one even exist? and if not what does that mean as far as pulling curtains? Will I one day pull the final one and confirm my greatest fear?
But this entire situation it seems to strange to be chance.
Christ show me the way. Let me drink from Your peace. Let me rest on Your path. Show me oh Lord.
Down in the River to Pray - Alison Krauss