Resurrection West,
We are just a couple of weeks from Thanksgiving, where we will pause to remember all that we are thankful for. This is always an important time that can serve as a “reset” of our life priorities. Studies have shown that gratefulness heightens the quality of life. Our spiritual understanding of God’s love grows as we become more grateful. Making our financial commitments can serve in the same way – a “reset” of our lives and our money in response to a giving God who pours out blessing after blessing in our lives. Remember that life is found in relationships, experiences, and serving!
This Sunday is an important day in the life of our church as we come together to worship and pledge our commitments to God for 2016. We will continue in the series - Your Money and Your Life with some more practical ways you can worship through stewardship, no matter the income level – including powerful words and testimony from members of our church. If you are a member at Resurrection, you received a letter and a pledge card in the mail this week offering some guidance of how you might approach your financial commitment in this next year. Tonight Scharme and I will sit down with our daughters and complete our commitment card. Don’t forget to take a look at the many tools we have that you might use in your financial planning at cor.org/stewardship, including a budgeting tool, tips for teens about money, and more. Please pray, complete your card, and bring it with you to worship on Sunday. We will have extra cards available in the bulletins. At the close of each service we will bring our commitments forward as we celebrate and offer our financial commitments together to God!
FaithWork is this Saturday, November 14th! Adults, students and children are welcome to participate as we begin working on Joy in Serving mission opportunities. Part of our work will be to sort the over 100 bags you’ve already brought in for our Thanksgiving food drive. Take a look.
Just think of how many homes will be blessed by your giving in these Thanksgiving bags. Memories will be made, love will be shared, and hope will be revealed as families share in the Thanksgiving meal you provided! FaithWork will meet at the NEW Resurrection West Mission Center at 9am – 25000 College Blvd, Olathe. Many activities are already underway at our new Mission including tomorrow’s FaithWork. Each week around 200 backpacks are filled with weekend food for Ridgeview Elementary students. Monthly FaithWork projects will take place there, Upward Sports will be using the space for basketball practices—and these are just the beginning! If you have ideas for using the space to help serve persons in-need, please contact Chris.Holliday@cor.org.
Thanksgiving Meal at TLC – 120 students and staff will be celebrating Thanksgiving together at TLC in Olathe; let’s serve them Thanksgiving lunch! We need 10-20 adults (age 21 and over) to help make this happen, as well as donations of prepared food. Stop by the JOY in Serving table in the entry to find out more about how you can serve.
Pizza & Coffee with the Pastors Monday, Nov. 16, 6:30-8:30 pm Are you considering joining Resurrection? The first step is to attend Coffee/Pizza with the Pastors where you will learn more about the church, get to know our pastors and review expectations regarding membership. Childcare available. Register for CWP at cor.org/west/coffee.
Thanksgiving Prayer Breakfast with Kendall Gammon Wednesday,Nov.25, 7:30-9am,ResurrectionWestSanctuary Start your holiday season off with an attitude of gratitude. Enjoy great food (suggested donation of $7/person) and meaningful fellowship, spend time in prayer and praise and hear the powerful testimony of former Chiefs player Kendall Gammon. Visit cor.org/west/prayerbreakfast for more information and to register.
KiDS COR Presents Jingle Jam: Re-Wrapped! This family experience will have us all singing and laughing as we are encouraged to keep our eyes open to the needs of others—and to do something about it! God showed us this incredible compassion when he saw our need and sent his very own Son, Jesus. JingleJam is on Saturday, Dec. 12. All children from early childhood – 5th grade are invited to be a part of the celebration. Register your child and choose between the 3 pm and 5 pm production times. Musical and non-musical parts are available. We need youth and adult volunteers, too! Visit cor.org/west/jinglejam to register.
Registration is now open for The Alpha Course, held in the Resurrection West Sanctuary on Sunday afternoons beginning January 10. We will meet at 12:30 pm (following 10:45am worship service) for a catered meal, a live talk and great table discussion. Alpha is for anyone seeking to grow in faith no matter what age and stage in life. There is no homework—just a great first-step beyond worship. Learn more and register at cor.org/west/alpha.
New Website Launched! Our new website is now live at cor.org. Our goal is to offer a visitor-friendly site for people looking for a church home and to make our site easily navigable for exploring all of our opportunities for worshipping, growing, serving, giving and sharing. Please check out the site and click on the help tab if you have any questions.
Finally, I am excited to report that you gave 77 pints of blood at our blood drive this past Monday. We also have a group of high school students headed out to Youthftont Camp South joining hundreds of others to grow as disciples on the Metamorphosis retreat this weekend. May God move in extraordinary ways on the retreat!
Looking forward to worshiping with you on Sunday,
Pastor Jason
Resurrection West Campus
24000 West Valley Parkway
Olathe, Kansas 66061 United States
913-538-7800
For an after hours urgent pastoral care need call 913-314-6058
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Pastor Jason Gant
913-538-7800
For an after hours urgent pastoral care need call 913-314-6058
cor.org
Follow on twitter @rezwest
Connect on facebook at facebook.com/ResurrectionWest
Pastor Jason Gant
jason.gant@rezwest.org
The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection West
24000 West Valley Parkway
Olathe, Kansas 66061 United States
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