A Smashing Job at Sermon Prep

Jerry did a fabulous job preparing wonderful sermons two weeks in a row! Even the second one was amazing despite the late notice on a Saturday that the other pastor was sick. 

You can listen to them by clicking on the sermon titles:

The Glorious Kingdom Revealed: Matthew 13:24-53

Draw Near: Matthew 13:54 -16:28

Kate made gluten-free peanut butter cookies to support the sermon writing. It's been a tradition ever since Jerry became a pastor. 

By Our Favorite Pastor-- A Sermon Series

Listen to this sermon series on the Upper Room Discourse by our favorite pastor! <3

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
If Anyone Loves Me...
God's Wonderful Plan for Your Life 
The Counsel of His Will

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We just love this. It cracks us up. : ) Comment if you enjoy!

By Our Favorite Pastor...

Listen to the first two sermons of this super encouraging series by our favorite pastor! <3

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
If Anyone Loves Me...

Stay tuned for the last three!!!

Recent Ministry Opportunities

-Monday-

Jerry led Evangelism Training (South). We are going through The Way of the Master, and this week we watched session 2 ("Discovering Hell's Best Kept Secret"), a very convicting episode! 

Praying for all the lost souls and asking for courage to bring them the Gospel.

-Tuesday-

Mrs. Y who usually leads the monthly Ladies' Bible Study (Living the Gospel in Relationships by Tara Barthel) was very sick so she asked Betsy to, and she did a GREAT job!

Some of the girls squished onto one couch under a fuzzy blanket as we watched the message in the chilly basement. 

-Thursday-

Jerry led Evangelism Training, North

 Praise the Lord, it was so crowded we had to use a second room adjoining the first one!

-Friday-

Betsy and a friend have been hosting a girls' Bible Study every Friday on the topic of reclaiming beauty. They are doing a biblical study (using the webinar material by the Botkin sisters "Reclaiming Beauty") on what God says is beautiful and how we, as biblical women, should represent Him. 

 The girls each decorated their study guide notebooks...it took all day, but they enjoyed it immensely. :P

Our week was rather packed, but we thank the Lord for all these opportunities to reach out to the people God has put in our lives.

Honor God and Mothers//Mothers' Day Sermon

Pastor Y. suddenly got sick Saturday night, and called Jerry to ask for a replacement preacher. Jerry said 'yes', and dug up an old sermon he had preached years ago. He did a wonderful, collected job of both leading the music and delivering the sermon. You can follow this link to listen to it. 

Church Picnic

Guess what we've been doing...

Helping put on a Church Picnic! 

 The schedule was packed and we had a fabulous time!

We entered him in the 5K race as number 0. <3

 Getting ready for the race at the hottest part of the day!

 Ready, set-

 GO!

The crowd waiting and watching for their return.

And here comes Tyler!

2nd place

 And 3rd!

After that there was lunch, games, and dessert judging.

At the sign up table we recruited three judges, and they highly enjoyed taste testing and scoring the tables of baked goods that families brought.

These were delicious!

 Yay! We have a winner! 

Talking, talking, and talking. : )

Foosball!

 A crowd of kids gathered around the table as tournament after tournament was played and shrieks of excitement could be heard when the games got fierce.



Badminton!


Wow! What's the weight limit?! Uh, oh!


Girls' turn!

Waiting in line for the trampoline.

Children's story time.

Making ice cream at the craft table.

Then hayrides around the neighborhood!


...complete with songs! This little man kept it up the whole way!

Apparently the wagon was too crowded 'cause these boys decided to climb into the truck bed and ride there. And show off how they could stretch their legs. : )

Neat shadows!

Betsy won first place in the Chili Cook Off and was awarded the "Best Chili" trophy! 

After a fellowship dinner of the many delicious chilis entered in the cook off there was a rowdy game of Badminton in which there were numerous trips up a tree to retrieve the 'birdie'.

Then to finish the day off everyone gathered around the fire pit and sang songs to the Lord.

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

Friday:

Fellowship at Pastor Y's place.

 Chatting

 Chatting and waiting for the Frisbee to come their way

 Tickle, tickle!

 Frisbee craziness...

 Late into the night

The ladies' talk by Mrs. Y. The men held one on the back porch as well.

Snacks and fellowship afterwards

Saturday:

Church preparations and family hangout time.

Music practice for Sunday worship

Its nearly impossible to get a normal photo of this guy

His little car

A sweet gift from a friend after we had been admiring her rose bushes

BLTs with TONS of bacon!

 Our little musician

Awww! Poor sleepy boy!

Cleaning out the peanut butter jar. Don't know why.

Formatting baptismal certificates...

Like this one.

Cleaning so the house isn't such a wreck!

 Sweet little helper!

Ha! Caught them!

Sunday:

A wonderful message, worship (lead by Jerry), and fellowship.

 We all gathered around the piano and sang hymns

Thanks to those great sound guys!

 Waiting in line to bring their families communion

 Singing after communion

Then hours of fellowship!

The Virginia Reel with some of the little girls after cleanup

It was CRAZY fun!

Then a late night movie with the family...

And a take home meal of Panda Express. Somehow we ended up with a whole ton of fortune cookies. Weird.

Look for a post on Monday!