Sunday Service at Porter County Fair July 26

Sunday Service July 26th, 2015 will take place at:

Porter County Fair

Park Place Pavilion 10am

Join us afterwards and enjoy a variety of Christian Music until 1pm

(Free admission before 10am)

Women's Bible Study

It's not too late to join the Thursday night Ladies' study group is joining Proverbs 31 Ministries Online Bible Study which started last week. Study on your own with the e-mail lessons (or come to join us at Life Bridge for the optional live cast on Thursday evenings 6:30-8 if you are available). Sign up and get your book at: http://proverbs31.org/online-bible-studies/

Turkeypalooza 2015

Mark your calendar now to attend 500 Turkeys Turkeypalooza!

Coffee Creek Watershed in Chesterton, IN

Saturday, August 8th, 2015

2pm- Dusk

What can you expect:

• Music on 2 stages! The Main Stage and the Faith Stage which will feature local Christian artists. The featured act of the day will be the Spazmatics at 6:30pm. 
• Kids' Zone with lots of activities 
• Food Vendors 2-6pm 
• Gobble Wobble 5K Run & Walk - Sign up at Gobble Wobble 5K Sign 

Click 500 Turkeys Turkeypalooza 2015 for a complete listing of events and times.

Operation Christmas Child Celebrates Bunco Fundraiser!

On June 27th, Operation Christmas Child help a Bunco event to raise money to help cover the cost of shipping boxes to kids around the world.

With 20 people participating, they were excited to raise over $200 for OCC; but, they were even more excited to meet new people and share the mission of Operation Christmas Child.

Toolbox Ministry - Save the Dates!

Did you know we are planning a new layout for the worship area?  The change will prepare for the new welcome center, help sound and video technicians, and increase our worship capacity!
You will need to sign up to find out more. ;-)

Dates: July 20th thru August 1st
Needed: Willing Hands with all skill levels - cleaning, moving items, painting, pre-carpentry (willing to drive a nail or learn how), carpentry

Many hands make light work... or at least fun work!  Check in at Ministry counter to let Tim know when you are available to help out.  This will help him in planning the work.  This can be a wonderful opportunity for families to serve together!

Ongoing Events

• Ministry Mondays 6:30-8pm meets to be purposeful in developing our serving skills and to coordinate ministry efforts. All are welcome.

• Toolbox Ministries continues to work around the building each Monday 4-8pm.  Watch for other times.

• Tuesday Morning Bible Study 10am. All welcome.

• Tuesday Midweek Bible Study Potluck Dinner at 6:30; Study begins about 7pm.  Current Study is "Bad Box."

• Faith-Based Cancer Support Group meets 2nd & 4th Wednesdays at Life Bridge 6:30-8pm

• Worship Arts Bible Study and Band Practice Thursdays 6:30-9pm

• Operation Christmas Child continues to collect small toys.  Drop off donations in the bin at the Ministry Counter

Provoke... Encourage... Spur...

This has been a good week for me so far.  Sunday was father's day, brought with it pretty good attendance at services.  (Preachers always like good attendance, right?)  Ministry Monday brought a good team meeting as we took our next steps in seeking God's direction for our ministries.  Tuesday evening at the "bad box" class was busting at the seams, with 45 adults and students and another 9 children in attendance that night.  Lots of excitement kicked of the week for us before we left on Wednesday to come down to Cincinnati for a few days.

We traveled down on Wednesday afternoon, stayed for Thursday and Friday morning and, as I write this, we are preparing for the trek back to Valpo tonight.  Why would we take the time out of a week like this to drive down to Cincinnati and back?  Simple.  We wanted to live out Hebrews 10:24.