Be The Church Sunday

This coming Sunday at Vinings Lake, we are having "Be The Church Sunday" - we are basically cancelling our regular services in order to serve our community in various ways.

We are only meeting at 9:30 for a quick song and devotion and the goal is to have everyone out the door by 10:00am. We have several team leaders that are ready to head a team of people to their areas of service. Everyone that comes will have a chance to sign up to be a part of the different projects going on. We know that the "church" is people - not a building, structure, or a weekly service, so our agenda is simply to serve people and hand them a card that Derek designed (he is the man by the way!!!) that basically says "Today, our chairs are empty and our church is here..." - and we want to tell them that we are not attending church today but we want to "Be the Church" in our community.

Some of our projects include pulling weeds door to door in a neighborhood behind VL, paying down the price of gas at a gas station - while we fill their tank and wash their windows, going to the Silver Comet Trail and handing out bottles of water, going to a widow's house to minister to her and do a few things around her house, we are hoping to go to a local Starbucks and offer to buy an additional pastry to go with their coffee, going with a local ministry to give food to the homeless, and a few other opportunities as well.

I am looking forward with GREAT anticipation to this weekend and I think the people of VL are excited as well. The good news is that the we can do this all the time - BE THE CHURCH!