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Worship September 2018

Church Family,
I hope the beginning to this Fall season finds you well, as we are gearing up for an exciting and busy time of ministry at Oakhill! This month I want to highlight a few events coming up that we want you to be a part of.

Family Night of Worship on Sunday night, September 9th, we will be gathering at the SWIBA fields on Whetstone Road to have an evening of outdoor fellowship and  worship. This event went very well last year and we are expecting a great night once again! Our worship team will be there leading live worship music all night. We will also have food trucks available for you to purchase dinner from Doughboy BBQ, and Lolly’s Pops. You may also bring your own picnic style food as well! We will also have games set up for kids to play, and towards the end of the night, we will gather around the stage with our entire church family to have an intentional time of worship. You do not want to miss this event! We don’t get many opportunities to bring our people together from all three of our worship services, so this is a great opportunity for us to be all together. Bring your family and bring your friends!

Young Generation Worship Sunday on Sunday morning, November 4th, our worship time will be lead by our students and our children’s choir. The praise band will be made up of our high school students, and our choir will be made up of our children’s ministry, as well as our students from 6th-8th grade. This is such a great opportunity to have our younger generation lead us in worship, and we want your family to be a part! Rehearsal for this Sunday will take place on Saturday, November 3rd, during The Growth Initiative. We encourage you to come and be a part of The Growth Initiative, and bring your child/student to be a part of this worship time.

God is doing great things within our Church. This fall will be busy, but so rewarding! Make every effort to plug in. Come and worship with us, come and serve with us, come and grow with us! You’ll never regret being a part of what God is doing. Come and be a part, because there is a place for you!

In Christ,
Jared

Kids Happenings September 2018

Hello church family,
 Wow we had an amazing end of July and August in the life of our children’s ministry!  Kids Camp was so incredible.  By the end of the week we had 5 extremely exhausted adults (Pastor Bryan Gotcher, Jacob Townsend, Leah Ice, Mary Beth Potts and myself) and 26 kids encouraged and ready to live a life that grows them closer to our Lord. Oh and of course they were pretty tired too. The worship was high energy and uplifting for all involved. And the teaching Pastor had so much passion for the children learning truth and delivered the message in such a way that young and old can be moved to respond.  I’m so thankful that we have a church family that invest in our children and helps to allow them to attend Kids Camp each summer. It truly does help to make a difference in these young ones lives and in the life of our ministry.

With response to the Holy Spirit, through VBS, Kids Camp and superb parenting we had nine children follow in baptism during the month of August. Now that is a reason to CELEBRATE!  Praise God for these professions of faith. I can’t wait to see what plans God has in store for these young lives and their future as they go into the world proclaiming the Good News.

I would like to give a shout out to all of our new Sunday morning Kids Life Group teachers. Promotion Sunday and the weeks that followed, transitioned smoothly.  I am very thankful for all of you and your willingness to invest in our children each Sunday morning.  Also, we were able to fill most of our AWANA teaching needs and have a solid group of adults ready to disciple our children each Wednesday evening starting September 5th at 6pm. If your child isn’t already planning to attend AWANA on Wednesday evenings, I would like to strongly encourage you to allow your child to try it out.  Children are discipled by faithful & loving leaders and learn scripture in fun ways helping them to understand and apply it in their daily walk. For more information about AWANA go to www.oakhillbc.org/ministries/kids.

On a side note of upcoming activities in the life of our children’s ministry check out these dates:

• September 5th - AWANA Kick-off 6:00 - 7:30 pm
• September 22nd - Growth Initiative 8:30 - 11:30 am - childcare provided for infant-5th grade
• Month of October - Upward Basketball and Cheer Volunteer Sign Up - in main lobby
• October 26th or October 27th - Upward Basketball and Cheer Evaluations - check out our website for details - www.oakhillbc.org/ministries/kids

Thank you for allowing me to love on your little ones.
God Bless,