A Season of Strength

Growing in Discipleship and Faith

Now that we’ve reached October, even Arizona is starting to experience autumn. That means our “migratory” friends are beginning to return, and the church’s winter schedule is going into effect.

Starting Thursday, October 1, the church office will be open during the following hours:

• Monday-Wednesday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm 
• Thursday, 8:00 am to 1:00 pm

The resumption of our winter schedule and the months leading up to our farewell to Harrell give us the opportunity to strengthen the ministry, mission, and fellowship of our church through the fourteen practices that Craig Dykstra identifies in Growing in the Life of Faith as supporting discipleship growth:

• Worshipping God together 
• Telling the Christian story to one another
• Interpreting the Scriptures and history of church’s experience together 
• Praying 
• Confessing sins to one another 
• Tolerating one another’s failures and encouraging one another 
• Carrying out specific acts of service and witness 
• Giving generously 
• Suffering with and for one another and all our neighbors 
• Providing hospitality and care 
• Listening and talking attentively to one another 
• Struggling together to become conscious of and to understand the world in which we live 
• Criticizing and resisting powers and patterns that destroy people and corrode community 
• Working together to maintain and create structures and institutions that sustain life

Let’s make this fall a season of renewal and strength. Let us worship God!