Element Christian Church
Prayer Week 6: Elements of Prayer: A.C.T.S.
Locations & Times
Element Christian Church
4890 Bethany Ln, Santa Maria, CA 93455, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 10:45 AM
Welcome to Element
We strive to ensure the biggest thing people think when they hear about Element is Jesus! We aim to glorify God by teaching and living out the Scriptures, transforming community into Gospel community and planting churches.
Costume Sunday - TODAY!
Enjoy the parade!
Pumpkin Killing! TODAY!
It's that time of year again! Time to carve, paint and eat some pumpkins! Oh, and shoot them out of cannons of course!<br><br>10/30/22<br>1:30p-4p<br>New Love Picnic Grounds<br><br>Bring lawn chairs, families and friends!
Pumpkin Killing Volunteers
We need help! See below how you can assist with one of our biggest community events of the year!
https://ourelement.churchcenter.com/people/forms/448420Chili Fundraiser
IIIIIt's back and even better than before! Our Chili Boat Fundraiser is here and all the proceeds go to sending our students to Winter Camp! After each service stop by the Youth Tables and pick up some delicious chili poured over your choice of Fritos, Takis, or Doritos. Or, just get an amazing home made bowl of chili with all the toppings. Complete your meal with a drink all for the amazing price of $8.00! Tums sold separately.
Night of Worship and Prayer
Throughout this Prayer series, we are eager to see how our Element community is moved and shaped by engaging with prayer in a deeper way. We want to invite you into a space where we can intentionally gather to commune with God and worship His greatness together. The service will include various components and interactive ways of reflecting on God’s attributes and goodness. Please join us as we are reminded of how great our God is, and maybe even share how He has been working in your heart throughout this series. <br><br>Childcare available for ages birth-preschool ONLY WITH SIGN UP; children to be included in first half hour of service. Elementary aged students are invited to stay through the entire service. People can come late/leave early if needed.
Night of Prayer and Worship Childcare
We will have childcare for ages birth-preschool only. Please sign up so we have enough babysitters.
https://ourelement.churchcenter.com/people/forms/451345List of Quick Connect Groups
These short-term, open groups are designed to help people get better connected at Element through weekly gatherings that consist of conversation, sermon discussion, and prayer.
https://ourelement.churchcenter.com/groups/quick-connect-groupsNew to Element? Need prayer? Just want to connect?
Click the link to fill out our Digital Connect Card so we can know you were here and send you a "Welcome" email.
https://ourelement.churchcenter.com/people/forms/295918Start Serving
Click the link below to see all the various areas you can serve at Element and sign up to help
https://ourelement.churchcenter.com/people/forms/395779Church Center - the app
Free in your phone's app store and a huge resource to stay in touch with Element! Download today!
This week's song list
Interested in looking for some of the songs we sang this week? Here's the titles and original artists:<br><br>Great Things - Phil Wickham<br>Future/Past - John Mark McMillan<br>Valley - Chris McLarney<br>There is a Redeemer - Keith Green<br>Oh How I Need You - All ons & Daughters
Week Six: Elements of Prayer: A.C.T.S
People everywhere have at least some difficulty knowing how to pray. We tend to default to the way we have heard others pray. Because we've heard people being "eloquent" as they pray, we think God wants us to step up our vocabulary to a higher level, so we try to learn the new spiritual dialect, but God wants to have a relationship with us as we are.
Today and this week we are going to take a look at a METHOD of prayer that became popular several years ago, called the ACTS Method. It is meant to help us guide our prayer time and bring some balance to it at the same time.
Digital Prayer Journey Guide
Full PDF version of our Prayer Journey Guide can be downloaded at the following link.
https://www.ourelement.org/downloads/2022/prayer_guide.pdf