Let me give you a little pre-view to whet your appetite! This summer we will be starting our first four community groups. We are going to focus them on making new friendships and strengthening community.
We are going to be working with the Community Group Leaders to plan all kinds of friendship building times. BBQs, Hikes, Bowling, Bike Riding, Softball, Movies, Pick-Nicks and anything else that creates a space where we can build community!
The groups will meet for 12 weeks; from June until the end of August.
Now you are probably wondering how this will be life changing for our community? Good question!
We are going to make this summer a "Summer of Service" where each one of the 4 Community groups participates in 3 servant evangelism projects over the summer.
These can be as simple as handing out water in the park on a hot day with a Southside invite card. What if your group threw a block party, or washed everyone’s car on your block? What if your whole group volunteered with Love Inc. for a day?
Maybe your group wants to Adopt-A-Friend: Someone in the group knows of a person that is struggling, your group could bring them groceries, fill their gas tank or help them around their house.
Each one of the groups will receive a list of ideas and all your group has to do is choose three that you want to do over the summer.
Community Groups Summer Term lasts for 12 weeks, June through August.
Four Community groups serving three weeks each equals 12 weeks of service or as I like to call it, "A Summer of Service".
I believe that as we join together and bless Newberg, we are going to make new friendships and see lives changed.
This is EXACTLY what God is calling us to do and I am so excited for this to get started I can hardly sit still.
Looking forward to getting to know YOU better this summer,
Pastor Willy
P.S. if you have questions about community groups feel free to send me an email. We will be sharing ALOT about community groups and how you can plug into one this May.
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