Thanks for opening this email! We are re-launching our weekly email with a new look, new title, and slightly new function. We'll still do our best to keep you up-to-date about what is happening on our campus, but we'll also try to provide some encouragement to you as you are the church between Sundays. See my blog post below for where we got the title:
My son Emerson is 5 years old and he is just now becoming aware of the
sequence of days. Where Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. were just
words, now he is connecting them to his life. Friday, he knows, is
show-and-tell day at school. That is followed by Saturday which, for the
most part, is our family's Sabbath. We spend the day together goofing
off. He's figured out that after Friday and Saturday comes Sunday, when
we "go to church." He still checks with us though. When he wakes up he
asks Trish or me, "Is this church day?" When we answer affirmatively, he
is sometimes excited. He enjoys being with his friends and singing the
songs and learning the verses. Other times he is disappointed. Church
edges out school in his young mind and heart, but neither is as good as
staying home and playing with Play Doh with Mom and Dad.
Isn't that amazing? Even at the tender age of five, he's already made
the connection. He has bought into the idea that most of us accepted
long ago. Sunday is for church, and, unfortunately, church
is for Sunday...
As always, I count it a privilege to be the church with you on Sundays and in-between!