Spirit Wednesday worship is happening again! After a period of hiatus, we are reviving our Spirit Wednesday contemporary worship service. We have experimented quite a bit with alternative worship over the past four years. I am very grateful for every stage and every experience. After much prayer and discussion we feel like this worship experience is one of the keys to discipleship and outreach for our church’s ministry.
Our summer pastoral intern, Stephen Gehring, has particular gifts in leading this form of worship so with his presence here and with the current praise team, we feel like the time is right again. We’ll worship together each week at 6pm in the chapel. This will be a time of music, prayer and message/teaching. Stephen and I and others will alternate preaching during these summer months. I encourage you to come to Spirit Wednesday even if it may be a different experience for you. Invite someone to come with you. We’ll have nursery available for parents of small children as well.
I have to take a personal privilege this week to say that Bethany and I are looking forward to welcoming our family to town this weekend for the occasion of Samuel’s baptism in worship this Sunday. I’ll be preaching but I’ve asked a childhood pastor and special mentor of mine still, Rev. Roy Biser, to come and baptize Samuel. It is a special and sacred day any time we baptize someone into God’s family. The Williams family is certainly looking forward to this day. We hope to be able to experience it with you.