Here It Comes

HERE IT COMES We are just a few weeks away from one of the biggest community outreach events in our church history. The James Island Easter Egg Drop WILL BE Saturday, March 19 from 11 am to 2 pm. Pray for a beautiful clear sky, little to no wind, no rain day. Pray that we will be ready for the large number of people that we believe will attend. Pray for those who will share the gospel and interact with our guest. Pray for a record number of volunteers. We need all types of people for all types of activities. We even need some after event people to do some follow up work. Then pray that they will be so moved to attend Easter Sunday worship to hear the greatest story ever told! Whoohoo, here it comes. Please check the volunteer table in front of the office to see where you would like to volunteer. If you are on face book, “share” the information of the James Island Easter Egg Drop. That way the ad will go to all the people on your facebook.

COMING UP NEXT It may seem a little early, but I wanted to let you know of our church wide prayer emphasis. On Easter Sunday we will launch CALL TO ME: A SEASON OF PRAYER AND CONNECTION. This will be a fifty day prayer guide from Easter to Pentecost. It will consist of a daily scripture reading, a devotion written by one of our leaders and a guided prayer for that day. We have 19 of our own church family that will be writing this 50 day prayer emphasis. We will hand these out for the first time on Easter Sunday morning. Everyone will be encouraged to have their own copy as we go through this together as a church family. You will, of course, be doing this on your own in your daily quiet time. The plan is that you do it “together” as a Connection Group. Share your prayer request, your thoughts about the devotional or the individual scriptures. Pray together. Encourage one another to discipline yourselves to daily be in the word and to daily be praying for God’s will and for the JIBC family. “Call unto me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3. Some of you have been around JIBC to remember that was the Old Brick Man, Ted Luther’s favorite Bible verse. What prayers will he answer during this period of time? What unsearchable things will he show us? 

Pastor Tom