This coming September St. Paul Lutheran will be conducting a spiritual growth campaign at our church. This campaign is designed to explore everyday outreach for everyday people. The events of the campaign will give us opportunities to not only learn about outward focused living in a self-focused world.
One of the most exciting aspects of this campaign is will be a community tailgate party scheduled for Friday, September 17 from 5-7 p.m. just before the Treynor football game. It will be a chance to invite the entire community to join us for a time of food and fellowship.
During the OUTFLOW campaign, small groups will gather in homes for five weeks, watch and discuss a weekly video teaching session and then learn to how to reach out with the love of God to people around us.
Right now, we are looking for Host Homes where groups can meet to go through this five-week Bible study together. We want to have enough homes so that EVERYONE – that’s 100% of our congregation – can be in a small group study. That means we need quite a few homes! Will you consider opening your home to a group for the Campaign?
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“May the God of
hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him,
so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy
Spirit.”
—Romans 15:13
God’s promise to us isn’t half empty. It’s not half
full. It is
overflowing!
The Bible tells us that our lives aren’t meant to be like
half a glass of water. God created us to be full of rich
experiences, rewarding relationships and abundant
blessings. God blesses us so that those blessings can pour
out huge amounts of hope, comfort and refreshment on others
while at the same time still having more than we will ever
need ourselves.
That’s the theme that we will be exploring during
our Outflow
campaign that
will begin in September. For five weeks, we will focus on
how God blesses us to be a blessing to others.
We might imagine our lives as a four-tiered fountain. God
is the source of life for us and is at the heart of the
fountain. God pours blessings into our lives, filling us
with love, joy and hope.
The moment comes when we can’t contain those blessings.
Maybe it’s a drip at first or maybe a small bit of hope
trickling from our lives into someone else’s life. It isn’t
long before the water is flowing freely and spilling into
the next level of the fountain, and then the next and the
next. God’s love flows through us into the lives of our
family, friends, neighbors, community and the world.
Outflow
is
about a richer relationship with God, a relationship that
is powerful, intimate and constant. It is about a
conversation that keeps on going, filling us with love,
purpose, power and blessing.
Outflow
is
about overflowing with God’s love into your family and
friends—those people who are closest to you, the people you
desperately want to see experience the joy of Jesus’ love.
Outflow
is
about overflowing into our community, reaching out with
God’s love to everyone around us. It is about natural and
relational ways to encourage the people we come into
contact with each day. It is about serving with no strings
attached
Outflow
is
about reaching out to our world so that as a congregation
we are known for loving God and for loving others as well.
How can you get the most out of the Outflow
campaign?
We are excited as we envision our entire congregation connecting on a deeper level, and the impact this could have on our church and our community! The OUTFLOW campaign kicks off at worship on September 11 & 12 and the OUTFLOW small groups will meet for five weeks, beginning the week of September 13.