Important Service Tomorrow

Hello SLCC Family,

I hope you are all doing well today and looking forward to worshipping together tomorrow! There are a few updates regarding our service that we wanted to share with you. For starters, Pastor Don will be giving a brief talk regarding the nature of our current leadership structure and the future plans for leadership at SLCC. We received some inquisitive feedback following our service last week, so we have realized the need to make some clarifications regarding this important aspect of our church.

As per our constitution, we will also be continuing forward with our vote on the two current council members who are up for a 2nd term (John Stuhlmiller; Ron Elson). However, we have decided to postpone the vote on potential new council members until a later time in order to clarify our leadership structure and selection process.

Please plan to attend and cast your vote tomorrow. We look forward to seeing you all there. Also, please feel free to contact either Don or myself with any questions. Thanks!

For our King,

Pastor Jeff

Taking the Self-Righteous Beyond the Bread - January 25, 2009

Upcoming Vote For Council Members

Hello SLCC,

I hope you all are well today! As your leadership council, we wanted to inform you in advance that in one week from this Sunday (2/1/09) we will be voting on council members to serve from 2009-2011. Two current council members will be up for a second term of service (John Stuhlmiller; Ron Elson), and two new nominees will be voted on concerning initial entrance onto the council (Dave Haller; Terry Elson).

Please plan to join us and cast your vote on Sunday, 2/1/09.

For review, the voting criteria from the consititution are as follows:

"Voting members are communicant believers who have reached the age of 16 years, have regularly participated in the life of the congregation, and have made contributions of record through offerings of money and/or service during the preceding year."

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to approach myself, Pastor Don, or any of the other council members prior to the vote. We welcome your feedback!

Counting it a privilege to serve you at SLCC,

Pastor Jeff for the Council

A Recipe for Revival

Creation vs. Evolution

Greetings SLCC Brothers and Sisters,

I trust that you are all rejoicing in our great Creator and Savior today! I wanted to give another quick plug for our Sunday School study of the book of Genesis. We will be finishing the introductory lesson to the book this week and then delving into Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Because this verse is at the heart of the impassioned "Creation vs. Evolution" debate that is raging on today, we're going to consider and discuss the topic together for at least one class...maybe two (yeah, probably two!). My hope is that we might learn to understand our culture (mission field) a bit better and also that we might learn to engage unbelieving evolutionists in a proper, Christ-honoring way.

Please pray that it is a profitable study and please plan to join us!

Blessings,

Pastor Jeff

Introduction to the Church