Friday, July 24, 2015
Dear Resurrection Family,
This weekend we kick off a new sermon series on the Gospel in Film. We’re taking three current films, and looking for how they illustrate truths in scripture. It’s going to be great fun! Glen Shoup will preach at the Leawood Campus, sharing the connection between the Bible and the hit Pixar animated film, Inside Out. The film received critical acclaim, has a 91% audience rating, and 98% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and has already grossed over one half billion dollars at the box office. Though it’s animated and great fun for children, it has a message for adults about growing up and the role our emotions play in our lives. You’ll be surprised at how this ties to scripture.
On Monday and Tuesday night we’ve reserved 450 seats at the B & B theatre (formerly Palazzo) at 135th and Antioch for Resurrection Night at the Movies where we’ll see the film we’ve just talked about in worship, Inside Out. Tickets are only $5. Pick up your tickets after worship this weekend and enjoy a great flick and a time of fellowship with your fellow church members.
As you are reading this, LaVon and I are on our way to England. We’re going a day early to meet with guides to prepare for 75 Resurrection members joining us on Sunday. We have 14 high school and college students who feel called to ministry, 11 seminary students, and 50 of our leaders here at Resurrection who will retrace the life of John Wesley and the origins of Methodism. We’ll go to Epworth, Oxford, Bristol and London worshiping, studying and thinking together about faith, church history, and theology. Please pray for me and for the participants. While most of our mission trips involve traveling to developing nations, or to places of service here in the states, this trip is preparing leaders for the future, and these participants are going to learn, grow and be equipped to teach and share their experience with others.
This fall in most of our small groups and Sunday School classes, across all of our campuses, we’ll take all of our small groups to England via video as we spend six weeks as a congregation focused on Revival: Faith as Wesley Lived It. We’ll use the book I wrote on this theme last year (the publisher has given us a special price on these, and, as with all of my books that are used in our small groups andSunday School classes, I will receive no royalty from them).
This study is not just about Wesley, but about what dynamic Christianity is meant to look like. If you’ve already done the study in your small group, let us know, we’re looking for people to help us lead other small groups. E-mail Liz Gyori by clicking here. If you are not in a small group, we’ll form new small and large groups for the six-week study. We’d love to get you connected with others at Resurrection in this study. Registration will start August 1.
This week our contractor erected the lower and main floor walls, near the current loading dock, of our new building. This section matches the existing education wing. The rest of the main floor uses limestone and glass which won’t be erected for months. Also, the first of our structural steel was delivered and work on that will begin in the next week or two. You won’t see it coming out of the ground – it is the “floor joists” – but you will begin to see steel coming out of the ground in August. You’ll also note that part of the new parking lot will be added in the next week. Things are about to get very exciting! Here are a few pictures you may enjoy.
I also want to thank all of you who made and are fulfilling your building pledges. Thanks to you, we have not borrowed any money on the construction so far, and if we continue to remain current on our pledges, we won’t borrow anything until halfway through next year. The fact that most of you are current or even a bit ahead of schedule in fulfilling your pledges will save us a significant amount of interest. Thank you! Here’s a few pictures of the site, click on the thumbnail to see a larger version.
Dick Cooper, Resurrection's director of facilities, showed me where the steel will begin going up in the new buiding.
From the aerial shot, you can really see the foundation of the new sanctuary!
Finally, we’re taking sign-ups for Christmas in October this weekend in the narthex. We’ll join forces with others in Kansas City to improve the living conditions of the elderly, disabled and veterans who are having a tough time keeping up on house maintenance. We’ll paint, do light construction and repairs, and build wheel chair ramps. No skills are needed, we’ll train you. We’re hoping for 500 of you to sign up to spruce up 500 homes on Saturday, October 10. Anyone 14 and older can participate. Register in the narthex this weekend, or by clicking on this link, www.cor.org/christmasinoctober. If you are in a small group, make it a group project. Or invite your co-workers and make it a meaningful day of team-building!
I’ll end with this: By Sunday most of the school supply bags and the uniform bags were picked up by Resurrection worshipers. These school supplies and uniforms will be helping over 1,000 low-income children in Kansas City. I am proud of your heart for helping others. You are an amazing congregation and I love you.
Though LaVon and I will be out of town, we look forward to worshiping online from England. If you are out of town this weekend, join us online for worship at www.rezonline.org for the 10:45 am or 5 pm Sundayservices.
Blessings!
Adam Hamilton
The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
13720 Roe Avenue
Leawood, Kansas 66224 United States
913.897.0120
913.897.0120
www.cor.org
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