After our Christmas Eve service at Live Oak Bible Church we will be moving to meeting together as a community once a month. We will be moving out of Live Oak Bible Church before the end of December. Please stay tuned for details as to how to help out with that regard. We will announce the day, time and location of our January meeting as soon as we can in the new year.
In our almost year and a half together, we've done a lot, grown a lot, and come far: we moved from the Jennings' house to the Group House, and from there to meeting weekly, Sunday mornings, at Live Oak Bible Church. We built a small young children's ministry with an Atrium, developed a homeless pack ministry and found a way to rotate potluck with that outreach and other activities. Thanks for everyone's contributions to all of this!
Through prayer and discernment it has become clear to Kelly and Nathan that we cannot sustain, as a community, the rent for Live Oak Bible Church. Additionally, Kelly and Nathan are in a phase of their family life where they need to serve with less frequency, so we need to move to monthly meetings. We envision meeting regularly at Kelly and Nathan's house, on a monthly basis, but also rotating meeting at other congregants' homes as well.
Please let us know, after prayer, how you envision a move to monthly meetings. Should we meet on Saturday or Sunday evenings? Or perhaps occasionally a weeknight? And perhaps weekly on a weeknight in Advent and Lent? Always a potluck? Continue the homeless packet ministry? Continue occasional teaching series? There are many possibilities, and we would like your prayer and input.
This Sunday we will observe Advent 4, the last Sunday of Advent this year, as our last weekly Sunday morning service at Live Oak Bible Church. We look forward to seeing you all!
Tuesday, December 24th is Christmas Eve. Our Christmas Eve service will be our last service at Live Oak Bible Church. The service will start at 7pm followed by a little Christmas party: feel free to bring something appropriate to contribute (no alcohol, please, although not against Episcopalian policy, it would violate our lease agreement). If you are going to participate or help set up in any way if you could be there by 6pm that would be great.
One last thing: please remember that weekly worship as Christians is very important. Please be sure and find another church community to join for regular weekly worship. Kelly and Nathan's family will be regularly attending the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection on Justin Lane.
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