One of the most gracious hosts I've ever met is an older gentleman I met around 14 months ago. He and his wife recently moved to Houston and now live with their adult children. Every time I visit him, he greets me with a fresh cup of coffee and some sort of dessert. This one time I visited him in the hospital, and he had the attendant bring an extra lemon-lime Shasta so that he could be a good host...while in the hospital! This man clearly exudes hospitality.
As we reflect on the lectionary texts this year I want to encourage you to read the texts we do not cover during our Sunday morning gatherings at home.
September 1, 2019
Jeremiah 2:4-13
Psalm 81:1, 10-16
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Luke 14:1, 7-14
We need additional volunteers to help with children's ministry, youth ministry, and to help serve communion. Please prayerfully consider joining one of these ministry teams.
Much of the summer, we collected money to help provide school supplies, backpacks, and health services to children in our area. Because of your generosity, we were able to send $4,600 to Hope Active, the organization putting the event together. Thank you!
As we reflect on the lectionary texts this year I want to encourage you to read the texts we do not cover during our Sunday morning gatherings at home.
August 18, 2019
Isaiah 5:1-7
Psalm 80:1-2, 8-19
Hebrews 11:29-12:2
Luke 12:49-56
We have many things happening in the life of our community that help us deepen our communion with God, and that help us deepen our communion with others. I'd like to take a few minutes to share them with you.
As we reflect on the lectionary texts this year I want to encourage you to read the texts we do not cover during our Sunday morning gatherings at home.
August 4, 2019
Hosea 11:1-11
Psalm 107:1-9, 43
Colossians 3:1-11
Luke 12:13-21
I want to bring you up to speed on some exciting changes that our coming to our worship space next month. As we announced in our worship gathering yesterday, the elders of ECL have approved a plan to renovate our stage area in the worship space at 218. Our new stage space will include a more "Table-Centric" design (centering the communion table in front of our stage), larger stage surface area, and off-stage-storage.
With over 30 members in our band, we have outgrown our current stage, and need more space to fit our ever-growing group of musicians and vocalists. This new stage will enable us to include more folks in our band each week, as well as provide more opportunities for creativity in our musical worship expressions.
Hello, Church Family!
Last December we began using the Revised Common Lectionary to guide our sermon texts each Sunday. Not only does using the lectionary unite us with the global church, it also allows us to cover almost the entire Bible in three years. For the next five weeks we are going to pause and do an in depth study of the book of Colossians.