Last night we had a great turn out for our family dinner, with over 135 people in attendance. It felt good to see so many of our families back in the building after the long summer break. I guess it really is difficult to pass up Chick-fil-a though. Next Wednesday, August 18, we had planned to have our back-to-school family fun night, but out of an abundance of caution we have decided to postpone this event to a later date. To help ensure the safety of our families and community we thought it best to wait and see how things are going after school has been back in session for a few weeks with Covid19 cases on the rise. With the rising cases and hospitalizations, we are instead going to be hosting a Covid vaccination clinic that night from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. These vaccinations are completely free for our church family and anyone in the community. They will be administered by Woodsprings pharmacy and everyone who attends will receive a free mask. We ask that you continue to pray for a quick end to this virus and join us as we walk alongside our community during this time.

Supporting our teachers, administrators, school workers, and students. As we have tried to identify needs with the upcoming school year, we realized that some of our efforts in the past have been picked up by other churches and ministries in town.  The backpacks and school supplies seem to be taken care of through stuff-the-bus.  And other things we have helped with in the past are on a needs basis that we hope to help supply as this coming school year gets started.  As we considered all these things, we felt one of the best ways we could help was to encourage and support our members who are in the education field.  If you want to be a part of us impacting this school year, will you consider bringing gift cards for our teachers, admin, and school workers.  Whether that is Walmart, Target, Office Max, or maybe gift cards to Shadrachs, Sonic, or the like; we will be distributing these cards to our school professionals as we try to encourage and help them with another COVID affected school year.  I hope you know, the best thing we can do for each of them is to pray for them and to ask God to use them and protect them this school year.  If you want to help with the gift cards, please bring them one of the next two Sundays, or you can give a monetary gift and we will purchase the gift cards for these professionals. You can drop these gift cards and monetary gifts in the offering boxes at the back of our worship center.

August 18 – COVID Vaccination Clinic (6:30 to 7:30) These vaccinations are completely free for our church family and anyone in the community. They will be administered by Woodsprings pharmacy and everyone who attends will receive a free mask.
 
August 25 – Fall Family Ministries Begin.  We will kick off our kids’ classes (6:15pm), students will resume (6pm), and we will have different opportunities for adults to connect and grow in their faith (6:30pm).
The following classes will be offered for adults:
1) Study on Revelation (11 weeks in the fall and 11 weeks in the spring).
2) Discipleship 101.
3) Doing Finances God’s Way.
4) Our main Wednesday night study will be focusing on a Tour of Israel as the fall begins.