LifeKIDS Great Campout

LifeKIDS volunteers are the best, God is moving through them as they pour into the lives of LifeKIDS! We had a great group of both students and volunteers this weekend at the two Back to School Bash Events on Friday night! Our 4-10 year olds enjoyed The Great Camp Out! Volunteers served the kids whole heartedly and the kids enjoyed crafts, a photo op in a canoe, face painting, making trail mix and to top it all off, they watched a movie outside with popcorn and candy! What more could a kid ask for:) The 10-12 year old students enjoyed a Tailgate Party with games, a taco bar, ice cream sundaes in a gutter and then an outdoor movie with popcorn and candy too! Check out the video here to see The Great Camp Out!

Thank you to all who donated items to fill the back packs for the outreach to our local schools! The backpacks were distributed to every school in Macon County and the they were very grateful to receive them!
Life Church worship this past week was full of energy as LifeKIDS lead the adults through three songs they have been working on!
I am blessed to be a part of Life Church as the LifeKIDS Coordinator!
Warmly, Lisa Hanna

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God “ Colossians 3:16

Around Life

In the spirit of being willing to try new things and change it up as we do at Life Church, we had quite a different day yesterday.

- Our LifeKIDS 4-10 year olds helped lead our adult worship experience. It was so cool. The kids did one of their own songs and then led two others with the worship team. We also prayed over them for the new school and for all the teachers in attendance. It was a special moment for me. To see how big LifeKIDs has grown and the joy of the kids was just amazing. We had over 80 kids in LifeKIDS yesterday! God is good.



- After the message from week 4 of Toxic I had the ushers hand out some post it notes. As Craig shared about speaking encouraging and loving words instead of toxic words, I wanted everyone to get a stack of post it note. The challenge was to take the post it notes and write encouraging notes to people all week. When you think of something encouraging, write it down and stick it somewhere for that person. I've already seen post it notes around town!

- Our next baptism bash is September 12th. I would love to see more people get signed up. If you've never been baptized this is your chance. It's one of the things Christ asks us to do after we give our lives to him. It's an awesome outward celebration of the life change inwardly in your life. Email the church office contact@lifechurchfranklin.com if you want more info or to sign up.

Have a great week!
Patrick

Around Life

Week 3 of Toxic is in the books and it was awesome. We will have the message posted to the church website tomorrow evening, so if you missed it please watch it this week.

Here are some things happening this at Life Church:

- The LifeKIDS Great Campout is this Friday night at the Jaycee Franklin Memorial Park at 7pm. This is for 4-10 year olds. (We are not sleeping over night.) It will be a night of fun and activities for our awesome LifeKIDS as they get ready to go back to school. Hope to see you and your kids there.

- The Loop (11-12 year olds) will have a Tailgate Party this Friday night too! It will be at the McCollum House starting at 7pm. Our student ministry Life Group for Youth will be bowling and eating pizza at The Factory too.

- I am really loving our PR (Prayer Room) for people to have prayer after the worship experience on Sundays. It's a more intimate place for anyone to come to and get prayer for anything going on in their life. It's been great to see some of our mature believers in the PR praying for others.

- We are working on a community outreach team that I super excited about. This team will help dream up ideas for us to do even more outreach in Franklin and this region. I look forward to sharing more about it soon.

- More than ever I am so thankful for what God is doing at Life Church. I believe the greatest days are still ahead and that if we stay in His will and seek him in all we do he will do things we could've never even imagined. Hang on Life Church, God is definitely on the move. Lets be ready.

Patrick

You Are A Leader

I been thinking a lot lately about what it is to be a leader. Jesus was such an amazing leader as he showed the ultimate leadership is about serving those around you. I heard a line in a song the other day that said Jesus came to serve and NOT to be served. Serving is not a weakness, it's actually the purist form of leadership.

I twittered the other day that Serving=Leading. So, if you are serving wherever you're at you are a leader! Think about that. God has called you to serve. He has called you to lead.

He wants you to serve/lead your family, your friends, your co-workers, your business, your Life Group, your wife, etc...

My prayer for you and for Life Church is that we are raising up and making aware that everyone is a leader wherever God has put them and I pray they lead strong as they serve.

"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." - Mark 10:45

Patrick

Around Life

Week 2 of Toxic is in the books. What an awesome message as Craig explored Toxic Influences. I have to say that I was really overwhelmed by the verse he shared towards the end of the message:

Test everything. Hold on to the good. 22 Avoid every kind of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22

I've read that verse many times, but it just seemed like ti really "clicked" yesterday in a way I've never experienced. I am praying for you this week as you "test everything" to find the good around you and stray from the evil so that you might not be influenced away from what God has for you today.

Here are somethings going on around Life Church:

- We will have Baby Dedications on Sunday, August 29th. If you have a child you would like to dedicate before the church and have the church leaders pray over you and your family please email contact@lifechurchfranklin.com .

- We are still collecting school supplies this Sunday for kids in Franklin. Please bring the following items to Life Church this Sunday:
Pencils, Glue sticks, Crayons, Markers, Scissors, Loose leaf paper, Pencil boxes, Spiral notebooks.
You can also drop them off at the Life Church office at 37 Phillips Street, Franklin, NC. (We are across from DNET Internet and upstairs above Goshen Timber Frames in downtown Franklin. You can also leave the items at Goshen Timber Frames.)

- We are holding the LifeKIDS Great Campout Back To School event Friday, August 20th at the Jaycee Park in downtown Franklin. This is for LifeKIDS ages 4-10 years old. Check out this flyer for more info.

Have a great week!
Patrick