Ken had a youth ministry team meeting where he continues to emphasize their purpose: "The purpose of REFLEX youth is to create a ministry through which God will draw youth closer to himself by providing opportunities for students to build relationships, grow in discipleship, engage in worship, give in service, and reach out to the community with the saving message of Jesus Christ." It's his goal to leave this church with the youth ministry team having a clear vision for why they exist. At their meeting they also filled the calendar for the year. Here's a peek at some upcoming activities: national youth camp at the end of April, various service events in May and June, youth worship in June, a New Testament overview Bible study, and a mission trip to the South Island over labor weekend next October.
For the past two weeks he has also had an adult education survey going out in the church. There are 29 people interested in a Bible study class and Ken is planning to begin the first study sometime in April on Luke.
In the overseas mission partnership meetings that Ken helps lead, they have decided to go through LCA Missions to Indonesia in late June of this year. Because Ken has been actively involved in this team, there is a good chance he may be able to be one of the team members going to Indonesia to "scout out" the area and church. Please keep that in your prayers.
My meeting was with the music team members - we had our very first monthly meeting. It was a great success, with about 12 musicians turning up, two members from the PLT and myself! The meeting itself went a lot longer than a usual meeting will go (we began at 7pm and ended at 9pm but will normally end at 8pm) but it was due to all the discussion regarding the worship vision at St. Luke's. The PLT took some of my notes and created an outline for what worship should look like (what things are essential, such as the Word, sermon, Sacraments, Confession/Absolution...) and had an open disucssion for the music leaders to have input as to how they feel the worship services should look. We decided that our goal is to have live music teams (led by musicians and vocalists) by the end of the year. How is this going to work? That's up to me. So please pray for me as I seek wisdom to discern how to transform the CD team into a music team. Pray that they will have open hearts and servant minds to work with musicians for the good of the church body.
I also was busy decorating for Palm Sunday service. Doesn't the altar look nice? The new music team that I lead was on that Sunday and we sang the song that Ken and I wrote - the congregation is beginning to really enjoy that song and it's awesome to hear something being sung by 100 people that is an original by the Chitwood's! Ken also was leading worship and preaching. It's great when he leads and my team is on because we can communicate very well to handle any little bumps in the service with grace (as there always seem to be a few bumps!)
Some other exciting news: our wedding album arrived! It's been great to re-live June 9th. The photos are awesome and the album is very unique - it is "magazine" style so the pictures are lazer-ed on to the page. It's pretty sweet! Enjoy a few pages...
And Pepper kept us on our toes - we found a flea on her! Being a neat freak, I went to the store and bought her a flea collar (it's red, and Ken says it's her "scarlet collar"...haha...) and some flea spray as well as carpet cleaner. Needless to say, I think we killed that flea.
Well, that about sums everything up. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers - may you have a blessed Holy Week as we prepare for the Easter celebration of our risen Lord!
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