Sunday, April 20, 2008

Spring Brunch

You are invited to the
Seeds Spring Brunch
Tuesday, May 13
Refuge Room
9:30 am - 11:30 am
Enjoy some time relaxing with your group and others from the larger group.
Dine on delicious food.
Share how this year in Seeds has been transforming for you.

Please see your Small Group Leader to sign up to bring a food or beverage item.

This would be the perfect time to express appreciation for your small group leaders. :)





  • We will not meet again as a group until June 10 for our Summer study.



  • Books for the summer study will be available at this brunch.

Summer Study


We will continue to meet through the summer months with childcare.

We plan to meet every other week beginning June 10.

The study is 7 sessions.

I encourage you to meet for social gatherings on our off weeks so you can get to know each other better!


Our Summer Study will be Beth Moore's,

Stepping Up: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent

It is a detailed study of Psalms 120–134 that will engage participants in unique opportunities for personal reflection and worship while exploring the background/writer of each passage.

Just as a song or poem can express feelings of fear, doubt, hope, and joy, these 15 psalms model how study participants can voice their own petitions and praises to our God, who is always available and ready to hear us. Explores the background of each psalm and psalmist, the majority of which were written by David.


Summer Study Schedule

June 10
June 24
July 8
July 22
August 5
August 19
September 2

Please remember to sign up any extra children for childcare with Marisa. MarisaR@gethope.net





Books will be available at our Spring Brunch or you can purchase them at LifeWay Christian Bookstore or online.

The cost of the book with tax is $14.



Our Fall study starts on September 16 and we will resume a weekly study.

Watch for any updates here!

Word of God Speak

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Loaves and Fishes

A note from Aliene :

Glory to God!
The Lord took our little bits and together we are able to give New Life Ministries over $900! I cannot thank you enough for your giving hearts, and taking time to listen to the girls. They were SO BLESSED by your generosity.

The money is enough to sponsor a girl at camp this summer. I’ll bring the picture of Nadya Urina next week. And so the seeds sown today will blow far away to the Ukraine to plant the gospel in the heart of one who needs Jesus.

A beautiful flower will grow – all beause of you. And one who was told ‘you will never amount to anything’ will find hope again, in Christ!

Bible Study Tool

Did you notice in the sidebar the button from Bible Gateway? Look all the way at the bottom of the blog. Right side.

This is a great tool for bible study. Especially, one like the one we are doing now. When the teacher is calling for you to look up many different scriptures this can sometimes be challenging for those who don't have much time for study or are easily distracted.

Most times I love the feel of my bible and flipping through the pages while I look up these different scriptures. I also like to write notes by those scriptures so I can refer to them later.

But, the reality is that many days with two young children running around, I am distracted and have limited time to look up all of the necessary scriptures that are called for.

So, I study near my computer and just quickly look up the scriptures on Bible Gateway.

Bible Gateway allows you to look up the scripture quickly and in many different translations.

For instance, Priscilla talks about Psalm 46:10 on Page 42 of our study, but she doesn't actually have the scripture written out.

If you look it up in the NIV translation that most of us have then you will see this:

10 "Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."

But she uses the NASB translation a lot to make her points. So, if you don't happen to have this translation, you can just look it up on Bible Gateway and find this:

10"Cease striving and (A)know that I am God;
I will be (B)exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth

I find Bible Gateway a useful tool for study. I know many of you already do, too, but wanted to just put it out there for those who don't already know about it.

By the way, we are studying week 3 if you are behind, lost or confused.