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.