West Seattle Campus | eWeekly July 21, 2008
NEWS & EVENTS
What You Need to Know This Week
7/22 TUE – Proxy (High School) | 7pm-9pm
7/23 WED – Men’s Prayer | 6:30am-7:30am
7/23 WED – Crux (Jr. High) | 6:30pm-8:30pm
7/26 SAT – Serve The City | 8am-5pm
For more information about Proxy & Crux, contact: westseattleyouth@marshillchurch.orgUPCOMING EVENTS
Serve The City | July 26
On Saturday, July 26th, we will scatter throughout the greater Seattle area to Serve the City. Each community group and ministry team will select a service project in their neighborhood, or with an established service organization, to carry out during the day. Sign-up today on The City under the West Seattle group. Contact: erikh@marshillchurch.org.
Vacation Bible School | July 28 – August 1
Our first annual VBS, for ages 3-10, is a free, fun, interactive week of activities that engage children while pointing them to Jesus. We’ll meet at EC Hughes Park from 11:30am – 2pm, Monday – Friday. Invite your friends! Contact westseattlekids@marshillchurch.org for more information.
EVERY TUESDAY IN AUGUST
- Aug. 5 | Summer BBQ Kick-off
Summer often begins a little late around here so the BBQ will too. The official MHC WS summer BBQ kick-off will take place at the WS campus building. Invite your friends, family and community to this summer party for BBQ, music, karaoke, and video games for the kids.- Aug. 12 | Party In The Park
West Seattle + summer = Lincoln Park. Join the Party in the Park, 6pm – 9pm for an evening of great food, softball, kids games, music and more.- Aug. 19 | Dinner & A Movie On California
MHC WS heads to “downtown” West Seattle for dinner and a movie! Get out with your friends, family and/or community group to support a West Seattle restaurant of your choice (e.g. along California Ave, Alaska or Admiral junctions, etc) and meet up with everyone at the Admiral Theatre later that evening for a private showing of a movie TBD via voting on The City. More details to come.- Aug. 26 | West Seattle Beach Baptism
A West Seattle summer would not be complete without a beach baptism event on Alki. Join MHC WS, from 6pm-9pm, on Alki Beach for a summer-ending BBQ party with baptisms. The evening will include food, a brief message, testimonies and baptisms. Do you want to get baptized? Email: erikh@marshillchurch.orgWest Seattle Bike Rodeo | Saturday, August 16
While kids don’t have bulls to lasso and wrangle in the city, they do have their bikes! This is the first annual West Seattle Bike Rodeo, for kids ages 3-10. It will be held at the EC Hughes North parking lot. While bike rodeos are designed to instruct and prevent accidents they are also lots of fun. This is a great opportunity to learn more about bike safety, participate in a variety of bike challenge courses and win prizes. (Time TBD)
SERVING:
Where Can I Get Plugged In?
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. (Colossians 3:23-24 ESV)
- THE BREAKFAST CLUB is a great ministry to begin getting plugged into Mars Hill, or to expand your fellowship and service for Jesus. We meet at 9am each Saturday for a meal, time of fellowship and prayer and looking into God’s Word and our own hearts, and then team up to prepare the building for Sunday services. We also reach out into the community to check in with our neighbors and show them Jesus through community projects. E-mail ryanm@marshillchurch.org for more info, or just show up on Saturday!
- THE PARKING TEAM is looking for volunteers to help with the new parking lots we have been given to steward. We need people to serve the neighborhood and the body by helping to park cars in the lot and not in front of the neighborhood houses. E-mail westseattle@marshillchurch.org to get connected.
- THE YOUTH MINISTRY TEAM is looking for leaders who are passionate for Jesus and the youth of West Seattle. Please email westseattleyouth@marshillchurch.org if interested.
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV)
CAMPUS NOTES
By Adam Sinnett, West Seattle Campus Pastor
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It’s the middle of July. The sun is out, grass is turning brown, the grills are hot – its summer in Seattle. Summer here makes that winter worth weathering, especially summer in West Seattle. Our yearly weather cycle in the Northwest tells the story of redemption well. In the fall (appropriately named! see Gen 3) we experience the descent into darkness, wet weather and weight gain through a barrage of back-to-back dessert-laden holidays (= sin). Before things get better, they get worse, and we’re taken to the depths of winter via snow storms and black ice. It’s then, when we reach the bottom, we see our need for help (= conviction). Then, the spring dawns (= hope of forgiveness and restoration held out in the gospel). The hope of spring transitions and culminates in the joy and delight of summer, just as tasting and believing the gospel brings transformation, change and full joy (John 15:11). I think, ultimately, that’s why we enjoy the summer. In the core of our being we know summer means redemption. As you’re soaking in the sun and enjoying BBQ, take time to praise Jesus that not only has the weather been made right, we’ve been made right with God. We can now look forward to the day when the sun will be no more for the lamp of the glory of God, the Lamb, will give us light forever and ever. (Rev 21:23)
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One note on membership: We currently have 214 members in West Seattle and another 153 working through the process, making for a total of 367. Praise Jesus. If you’re still working on renewing your membership, keep in mind that you have until July 31st to finish up.
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Grace and Peace,
Pastor Adam
Mars Hill Church West Seattle lives for Jesus as a city within the city of Seattle: knowing culture, loving people, and seeing lives transformed to live for Jesus. For more information, visit us HERE. For information on community groups and other ministries go HERE. For general questions, you may email us at westseattle@marshillchurch.org.
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