Pleasant Community B.C. Reports On Release God's Power Grant
Pastor Mike Poindexter shared these pictures and this report as the church family used Release God's Power Funds to reach their community for Jesus.
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Group Eating Dinner |
 Pastor Mike leading a devotional/object lesson duringcorporate worship at the YMCA. Notice the awesome shirt!!!!! |
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 Teens playing a game before their lesson.
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The children's groups having their lesson. |
We averaged 47 attendees this school year (children, youth and adults; not counting volunteers) (our highest attendance was 65 and our lowest 28) and had one additional church join us for this ministry. It was the largest church in the Warren area but who wanted to have us do their large group youth ministry and then they would focus on small group stuff themselves. The largest growth occured in the children and teen groups. They are much better inviters of friends (both non-churched and churched) than are adults.
A few non-churched people and or people loosely affiliated with our congregation attended the adult group. The adult curriculum for the year went through the City on a Hill resource - Not a Fan; progressed to Bill Hybel's Whisper curriculum and now are ending with simply reading through the Gospel of Mark. We purchased paper back New Testaments for them.
Just a reminder of the format for each evening: we do a dinner from 6-6:30 pm (we and two other churches took turns providing this), from 6:30-7 we either do corporate worship with a devotional / object lesson presented or we break the children into two different age groups for biblical lessons and allow the adults and teens to meet. From 7-8, the children will either use the climbing wall or pool (all of which is supervised) and the teens and adults will continue their meeting time as organized by the leaders.
We look forward to continuing this ministry starting next September and going through April of 2013.
Rev. Mike Poindexter