Church Stuff
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Hollywood God: The Pursuit of Happyness
“Hollywood God” kicked off at CrossWay yesterday with The Pursuit of Happyness. We watched several clips from the movie about how Chris Gardner (played by Will Smith) chased after what he thought would make him happy, letting absolutely nothing get in his way. The movie ends like so many others: happily ever after. We see… Continue reading
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Family Movie Night: Ratatouille
On Friday at CrossWay we had our first Family Movie Night and showed Ratatouille. We had about 30-35 people–not bad considering how little promotion we did. We had visitors from four families that had not been connected to the church. It was a lot of fun! The popcorn machine made some pretty good stuff, and… Continue reading
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This Sunday: Hollywood God!
At long last, after a long time of planning, we’re kicking off the “Hollywood God” series this Sunday! It’s weird how after months of working on something, we can come down to the wire with a lot still left to do. This Sunday the featured movie is The Pursuit of Happyness. The clips are all… Continue reading
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Pursuing Happiness with EasyWorship
Pastor John from the Gathering Tree helped me out in a major way yesterday. I’d been working on piecing together some video clips from The Pursuit of Happyness for this Sunday’s worship service. It wasn’t working. Apparently EasyWorship has a problem with Vista, and I couldn’t get any audio. I cannot overstate what a major… Continue reading
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Giving Up Sunday School for Lent
We had our monthly leadership meeting at CrossWay on Sunday. Two major decisions were made: to set aside Sunday School for the time being and to back up the time of our worship service to 10:30. Our mission as a church is to make lifelong followers of Jesus Christ in our community and around the… Continue reading
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Prayer: Power Surge in the Promised Land
We wrapped up the series “The Promised Land” yesterday at CrossWay. We took a look at a story Jesus told His followers in Luke 18:1-8, a story He told them to teach them that “they should always pray and not give up.” Prayer is the power source in the Promised Land. This story talks about… Continue reading
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Small Group Bible Study
One of the five expectations we have of CrossWay members is participation in a small community of faith. Along those lines, we started a new small group about a month ago. We meet on Thursday nights in Whaleyville. Last night we had a great discussion about Luke 15. Each week we discuss the Bible passage… Continue reading
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Invitation to Riches
The past couple days I’ve been hearing stories from CrossWay people about how they’ve been inviting unchurched people to be our guests for the “Hollywood God” series which starts a week from Sunday. That’s awesome! Inviting people to church, as simple as it sounds, is the most effective way to reach people for Christ. There… Continue reading
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Weekend Recap
Another eventful weekend! Here’s a brief recap: Thursday afternoon and evening were absolutely beautiful. Opaque gray sky with softly falling snow for hours. Felt like I was in a snow globe. We had to cancel our small group because the snow was sticking to the roads, but it sure was awesome weather. Carolyn had a… Continue reading
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Update on the “Creed” Series
Last fall at CrossWay we began a major series called “Creed.” The goal of this series is to explore up close each of the 24 topics in the Mennonite Confession of Faith. To avoid having a massive, half-year series, we divided it up into miniseries and scheduled some breaks in between. At the end of… Continue reading
Surfing the Inner N8 