If there is anything that covid stole from us that we need
to take back it's just being together and building relationships. I can't
think of a better way of doing this than around a table sharing a good meal for
those of us who are part of SMC. This is a great opportunity to reconnect
and catch up on a regular basis. While I believe the Sunday mornings are very
important and worshiping together is essential for our spiritual health, there
must be more and that's where family night comes in.
The church is not a building or a business it is a spiritual
family of people who know and love each other. But just like a biological
family if you never see each other, knowing and loving each other is difficult.
Family nights attempt to make seeing each other easy, but there is another
element that makes family night even better and I've seen several people over
the years do this.
I believe there is
no more non-threatening way to invite people into the church then on family
night. I have seen people come in and enjoy our food and fellowship and be
welcomed in a powerful way by our church family. This is why I believe it can
be one of our best outreaches and my hope is you can see that too.
My challenge is for you to prayerfully consider two things:
first, that you would make family night of priority and that you would attend
regularly just to reconnect. Then I would also challenge you to consider if
there our friends you could invite to join us.
Here is what needs to
happen: we need to have everyone sign up the Sunday before so our food
committee knows there will be a minimum of 20 people attending and then they
can have plenty of excellent food for everyone to share. Please mark your
calendar for these nights and especially the fellowship nights as those are
evenings that the only program is to catch up with each other and connect. I
hope you will join us and bring all the people God is prompting you to bring to
join our families together for the glory of God and building His kingdom in
love!
Here's what’s coming up…
Feb. 16 – Holy Wed Game is a rip
off of the old newly wed game and is a good time to laugh together and maybe
win a free cruise for two… maybe… come and see!
March 2 – Fellowship Night is when we just hang out
together. Kick back after a good meal and just share the end of the day with
the person across the table. There will also be Men’s and Women’s Prayer rooms
to intercede for each other.
March 23 – Pinewood Derby, for over 50 years SMC has
raced these little cars down the track-come for the speed way fun and see who
will be the big winner!
April 6 – Fellowship Night is basically the same as
March 2, but hopefully warmer ;)
April 20 – Church Clean Up Night (start at 6:pm) is
when we do to the church building what you do to your home every spring! There
will be something for everyone to do and pizza (Lord willing) to share as well.
Any questions just talk to one of our friendly Wednesday
Evening committee members:
Jane Kalina, Ruth Reifsnyder, Linda Myers, Roxie Ramseyer,
Justin Smith and Todd
Martin-we hope to see you at the next Family night :)
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