Weekly Update September 25th

Greetings All,

For starters we would like to thank everyone who came and or brought food to the pot luck last week. The food and the conversation were both great. I think we can label our first Home-group pot luck a success. This week we are back to our regular meeting format. Erica will be teaching on 2 Corinthians 1: 1-11. We have included the selection at the bottom of the email. So now it's short and easily accessible so definitely try to read through it once before Thursday.

Some things to think/pray about this week: Julie and Peter are leaving for Cambodia this Sunday after Church. I would ask everyone to please pray for them before/after/during this trip. These kind of trips have a tendency to life changing experiences and I am sure that they both covet your prayers and support. Also pray for Kim and Nathan. Nathan has a much heavier than normal course load this semester and they are responsible for our home-groups Bryden Place ministry. Please pray for them and we really need to support them with a good turn out on October 4th at Bryden Place(that's in two weeks).

Some things of a more administrative nature to consider. Do we as a Home-Group wish to do anything special to celebrate: Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas. These type of gatherings if done right can be very new-person-friendly not to mention are generally a good time. We would appreciate anyones ideas in this regard.

9/26/06(tomorrow) - Asia's Hope Benefit/Skreened.com launch party (go to: centralvineyard.com for details)
9/28/06 - Regular Meeting - Erica teaches 2 Cor. 1:1-11
10/01/06 - Julie and Peter leave for Cambodia
10/04/06 - Bryden Place
10/12/06 - Regular Meeting - Brian teaches 2 Cor. 1:12 - 2 Cor. 2: 4
10/19/06 - Pot Luck Dinner
10/26/06 - Regular Meeting - teaching TBA
10/31/06 - Halloween - Beggar's Night

That does it for this week, remember if you have any announcements please email them to us at briancarlson350(at)sbcglobal(dot)net and we will distribute to the group. This way we can keep announcements during home-group to an absolute minimum.

Thanks,

Brian & Erica

2 Corinthians 1: 1-11

 1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
      To the church of God in Corinth, together with all the saints throughout Achaia:

 2Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The God of All Comfort
 3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 6If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

 8We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. 9Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our[a] behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.

Taken from: biblegateway.com