Outreach Comedy Presents

July 15 @ 7pm

BBQ @ 5:30pm

What an awesome opportunity coming July 15th for our church here in Cottage Grove. Dana Daniels, a christian comedian will be here to perform, encourage and make us all laugh.

We will be doing a BBQ here at the church immediately before the show. Then we will converge on the High School and enjoy Dana. This is a great and non-confrontational way to invite your friends and family who may be skeptical of the church. This will be just an enjoyable night of fun. We hope everyone brings their friends.

Tickets are $3 and can be purchased through the church.

See you there.

Because we were never meant to be alone.

The Christ in Youth Conference is coming. To read more about the conference, go check out www.ciy.com and click on the Summer Conference section. There is a special section for students this year on the sight, with lots of fun stuff.

Check it.

Aaron

The Riverside Cleanup

The cleanup I think went very well. There were about 110 or so people registered and cleaning up around Cottage Grove. We were done with all of the river cleanups only 1 hour into the deal, and so, we went out throughout all of Cottage Grove and went cleaning up everywhere. The most disgusting place was probably behind the skate park and by the park by Safeway.

There was about 8 or 9 people from our church and I was encouraged to be working along side those from our church. We also spent some time at a BBQ at the park and we had a chance to fellowship not only with others from the church community, but also those from the city community. It was a great step in letting our city know that we as a church truly care about them.

I do hope this is only the beginning, and that we have a great opportunity to reach out to our city! What an opportunity to show Jesus. To show we care. I know I will be praying for more and more opportunities like the one we had this weekend.

The Discipline of Blogkind

I have to be honest, I am not a very good blogger. This stuff takes discipline, time and real effort. My hats off to all my fellow bloggers, who really can't even call me a blogger. An absentee blogger maybe.

I must say, I have really been encouraged by some awesome things happening here in the metropolis of Cottage Grove. I have been meetin with the local ministerial association, a group of us ministers from around Cottage Grove, and we have been putting together a plan to change the attitudes about church in our community. We are looking to bring an attitude of blessing to the city. On the National Day of Prayer, we gathered about 50 of us or so, from many of the local churches to pray for our city and city leaders. I do not envy the decisions and rulings they make and they can use our prayer. We also prayed for those within the Fire and Law Enforcement Departments. It was a great day.

This Saturday is the day I am REALLY looking forward to. Cottage Grove is participating in the state wide "Riverside" cleanup and our church and other churches in the Grove are going to help. This is an awesome opportunity to show love to the city of CG and to help bueautify the most beautiful city in the world.

I will let you know how it goes, if I am ever back on the blogger again.