We hope that you will gather with us as we worship together this Sunday. Today we gather for prayer at 9:00 a.m.; enjoy a time of fellowship at 10:00 am; and worship together at 10:30 am. We will be celebrating the Lord's Table during our worship gathering today.

Wednesday children's ministry and adult Christian education classes continue at 6:30 pm.

We are beginning to print a couple dozen half-sheet, paper bulletins that will be placed on the Welcome Center Desk in the Narthex.

“Praying for our Young Adults.”

*Adapted from "Don’t Forget to Ask! 7 Ways to Pray for Young Adults" at https://youngadults.lifeway.com/2019/10/dont-forget-to-ask-7-ways-to-pray-for-young-adults/

In a world that is full of “choices” pray that the young adults in your group will seek the heart of God in the choices that will define their lives.

There are so many things in which they can place their trust. Pray that they will put their trust in the Scriptures as a source of authority.

In a time of uncertainty for many in their jobs, pray that young adults will seek ways to use their gifts in a way that can point others to Jesus.

Pray for young adults to have needed relationships with other believers and honest relationships with nonbelievers. Pray that they can be an influence in their non-believing friends’ lives.

Pray that God will stir within them a purpose that they can be passionate about and a desire to reflect the goodness of Christ through that purpose.

For the young adults in your group, a majority of their friends are nonbelievers. Pray that they will have a heart for seeing them to hear and respond to the Gospel. Pray that the young adults in your group will also have a heart for the nations and people groups that have never heard the Gospel.

Pray for them to be confident that God can be trusted and that He will use them in their context of life to be used for the Gospel.

What other areas would you suggest we pray for over young adults?

Dan and Rachel Smither, founders of Key of Hope in Durban, South Africa, will be with us on Sunday, October 11th to share their ministry with us. Please make plans to join us for this special Sunday. We will take up a love offering for Key of Hope on October 11th.

The Wednesday children's program will be doing a hayride on October 17th. If you would be willing to donate candy to this special event you would certainly be a blessing! If you plan to donate candy, please have it brought to the church by Wednesday, October 14th. Thank You!

Our children’s handbell choir, grades 4 - 7th (for those that have participated in our children’s handchime classes) will be meeting during the church service starting on Sunday, October 4 through December, at 10:30 am. We will meet in the missions room on the upper level where we will be practicing for our part in the Christmas special. Please let Kathy Wass or Traci Wass know as soon as possible as we prepare assignments.

The adult handbell choir will start our Monday practices at 6:45 pm on October 5-December.

Is your garage filling up with pop cans? Don’t want to wait in endless lines when you can finally return those cans? Let us worry about storing and returning your cans and we will use the bottle deposit returns for Pastor Chris’ trip to Sri Lanka.

If you would be interested in donating your cans, please contact Pastor Jonathan and he will arrange a time with you to bring your cans to the church building.