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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Monday, January 9, 2017
This week's VOICE of Washington Street
Mon 01/09/2017 14:19:38.98
This week's bulletin is now available for viewing at www.wscoc.net/voice.cfm.
God bless,
Jim Black
This week's bulletin is now available for viewing at www.wscoc.net/voice.cfm.
God bless,
Jim Black
Thank you to bro. John Ed Underwood for his many years of service
After 42 years of faithful service to the family at Washington
Street, first as a deacon and for the last 10-plus years as an
elder, John Ed Underwood has chosen to step down effective
December 31, 2016.
The remaining elders consider it an honor to have served with him, and have asked him to continue in his role as church treasurer. We look forward to many more years of worship and fellowship with John ED and Ms. Anne.
-- the elders
The remaining elders consider it an honor to have served with him, and have asked him to continue in his role as church treasurer. We look forward to many more years of worship and fellowship with John ED and Ms. Anne.
-- the elders
A new year... a new focus... a new style for small groups at Washington Street
For more than thirteen years Washington Street has
enjoyed the blessings of small group ministry.
Our Share Groups, as they were originally conceived, have helped us
build community and increase fellowship within the church family. On so many occasions our small groups have
assured that folks were taken care of when there was a need or encouraged
others in the community through outreach.
I brag all the time about how my small group has encouraged me and
helped me through difficult times.
I am excited about the possibilities that this new
year and our new focus for the year holds for us! Our leadership is encouraging us to look for
ways to grow spiritually for Him all throughout the year. To that end, our preaching, our Bible
classes, our youth and children’s ministries are all implementing different
ways to encourage this kind of growth among us.
I believe our Sunday nights are a great opportunity for us to spur on these
efforts and our small groups to be great places for this kind of growth to
occur!
To that end, beginning in February (as our January
BREAKOUT month concludes) we will be transitioning into a new Sunday evening ministry
that we are re-naming Spiritual Life
Groups to help and highlight this new focus. Once again most of these groups will meet on
Sunday afternoon or evening and will be small groups of 12-15 individuals who
will meet together for prayer, Bible study, fellowship and sharing life
together. Once again they will be great
opportunities to invite friends and visitors to. This year, however, we want to create a
greater sense of community among all of our groups and include to a greater
degree those who do not wish to be a part of a small group. We will do this by asking every group to meet
together for a brief period of devotion prior to breaking out into small
groups, which will meet primarily in rooms throughout the building. Our elders have asked us to take this
approach to better accommodate visitors and to increase fellowship among our
members. Our goal is to have a greater
number of small groups to choose from which would be smaller in size
(12-15). Also, instead of groups
discussing the morning’s lesson (or preachin’), groups will study through
different spiritual practices with new discussion guides written by our
ministry staff. This will give us all a
new and unique experience on Sunday nights that will be quite different from
Sunday morning’s lessons yet will still contribute to the overall theme.
After our groups ‘breakout’ into their Spiritual
Life Groups, I will continue to lead a session in the auditorium (for those
preferring the style of a class instead of small group) that will still be
based on that day’s topic. Please join
me in praying for the growth of this new ministry as we continue to look for
ways to challenge one another spiritually towards greater maturity in Christ! A very important (but short) meeting of all
small group leaders will be this Sunday evening, Jan. 15, at 6pm.
—Jim
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