Welcome to the Weekly Newsletter!

Below you will find all the most up to date information on Sunday Service, our Weekly Rhythms, and Upcoming Events! We also often answer financial questions, recap celebrations, and share "God is Good" moments as a way of leaning into our core values of Adventure, Discipleship, and Authenticity. If you ever have any questions or a need you can email those listed in an applicable section below or send us an email HERE. May Jesus meet you gently as you live into His call this week.

We can't wait to see you for Worship on Sunday!

Service at 10:00am - Worship Center & Online

If you or someone you know is NEW to Adventure, please stop by the Welcome Center to pick up a Welcome bag!

Services stream live to three places: our website, our app, and YouTube!

Need help with accessing our livestream? Check out this instruction video or email Sam. If you are watching live, please join the chat to connect! If the livestream has issues please remember to exit your browser or app and restart it. An uninterrupted replay of Sunday service is loaded to our website, app, and youtube channel as soon as possible after service each Sunday.

Division Sermon Series

Responses to the Gospel often bring division because its message of grace confronts our self-righteousness, calls us to repentance, and proclaims truth that is exclusive. This naturally separates those who humbly submit to Christ from those who refuse to do so. Even among believers, differences in interpretation, priorities, sin, or misplaced motives can lead to conflict and disunity within the Body. Jesus knew His message would divide, yet He consistently taught that love is the pathway to true unity in Him.

Join us as we follow Paul and Barnabas on their missionary journey and observe the varied responses to the Gospel they encountered. As we study these passages, may we examine our own hearts with humility and honesty—recognizing where division may exist within us—and seek unity in Christ through His mercy and love.

Sunday, February 15th: Resilience

Paul and Barnabas arrive in Iconium and continue boldly preaching the Gospel, only to be met with sharply divided responses. While many believe, others reject the message with hostility and violence. Join us this week as we examine Paul’s remarkable resilience and faithfulness in the face of intense opposition—and what it means for us to remain steadfast.

Recently, we handed out copies of our Annual Report for 2025. If you would like to look through it, a digital copy is available HERE. Paper copies are available at the Welcome Center. Please look through this document that celebrates all that God has done in and through Adventure of Faith this past year. 

If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to reach out by EMAIL.

Daily Prayers, Digging Deeper Guide and coordinating Life Group Curriculum are available each week on Sunday to further explore this Sermon Series. You can find those resources (for this week and ALL previous weeks) HERE or at the Welcome Center on Sunday.

This Sunday in Adventure:Kids, we learn that the people chose to worship a golden calf instead of God. Moses interceded so that God would forgive them. We are all sinners, but Jesus interceded for us through His life, death, and resurrection so we can be saved!

"There is no one holy like the Lord; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God."

-1 Samuel 2:2 

We can't wait to see you this Sunday!

LAST SUNDAY of Adventure:Equip Winter Session

 This Sunday 9:00am-9:40am

Adventure: Equip is how we seek to dig in further to learning and practicing what we believe. These classes aim to prioritize understanding the Word, our theological beliefs, and spiritual practices. Our aim is not just to understand more, but study together and practice alongside one another so that our lives can be transformed.

There will be a Self-Guided Equip opportunity for the Lenten season that will include interactive and reflective elements available at the church on Sunday mornings... more info about that next week!  Confirmation Class for those teens already participating will continue throughout the Lenten season.

Ash Wednesday Service

Wednesday, February 18th at 6:00pm

Join us in observing the beginning of Lent with our Ash Wednesday service done in the way we feel God calling us to: as an Adventure family, humbly seeking to honor Jesus and rest in Him alongside one another. This service will have roots in liturgical greetings, prayers, and other traditional participatory practices like the marking of ashes. We don’t observe these prayers and practices as rituals, but as worshipful opportunities to connect with the Lord and with one another.

Lent Starts Next Week!

Lent is the waiting season leading up to Easter when we remember and celebrate Jesus' death and resurrection -- and that season starts on February 18th. During this season at Adventure we have the unique opportunity to participate with what God is already doing by reorienting our hearts and minds on Him, often by considering our lives and practices in light of Jesus' sacrifice. Many choose to fast from something, but our hope isn't in just giving something up, but that in our fasting we might turn to and depend more on God. In the upcoming weeks we will start sharing how we can engage this as a church with our weekly opportunities and take-home materials. But we also encourage you to prepare for the season in ways that you feel prompted.  

There is a "Looking Forward to Lent" packet available HERE.

 Like Advent, Lent is a devoted season in which we have opportunities to lean in together throughout the week. The take-home materials and resources available are to support you, and whoever may be participating with you, in drawing closer to Jesus throughout this season. This packet will give you an intro to what Lent is and what you can expect at Adventure during this season.  Our take home resources will be available this Sunday, and the daily prompts included in those resources start on Ash Wed! (But this year is very flexible, if you can't start on time, it is still worth starting later!) Online versions of these resources will also be available on our website and app on Sunday.

The Resource Wall is also still available and updated for the season ahead if you are looking for alternate resources for you or your family!

Let's Do Lunch

Thursday, February 19th, 11:30am-1:30pm at China Sun Buffet

This group is for older adults to enjoy conversation, deepening relationships, delicious food, and sharing together! Join our group for some conversation, laughs and good food. It's a great time to get to know people better. Please RSVP by 3:00pm on 2/16/25. For questions or to RSVP, please text/call

360-443-2206, or email Marilyn.

Adventure Hosts Family Kitchen

Friday, February 20th at 5:00pm at First Lutheran

Family Kitchen meals are available the last two Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays of each month at First Lutheran Community Church at 5 pm. If you, or someone you know, is in need of a meal, please consider coming to eat dinner (no questions asked).

We Need YOUR Help!  Please prayerfully consider if you might be able to volunteer once a month or on a rotation to help serve our community in this way. We rely on the generosity of our congregation in providing the food for each meal. Please look for the clipboards that will go around during service on Sunday to sign up! If you have any questions or need more info, please email Natalie!

Food Donation Drop Off

Please drop off when the church office is open Tuesday-Thursday from 9-2:30, or you can stop by Thursday evening between 5-7:30pm. OFFICE CLOSED ON MONDAY FOR THE HOLIDAY. Please leave donations in the kitchen on labeled carts or fridge areas.

Adventure Date Night

Saturday, February 28th from 4:30-7:00

At Adventure of Faith, we value marriages and want to allow some time for parents of young kids to connect with their spouse. Date Night is an event that will allow for parents to get out for a date, and will include some resources to help guide conversation, plan where to go, and assist in ensuring that they can do it again in the future! Our team of volunteers will have a fun night planned for your kids, ages birth through 5th grade. This is a free event.



For more information and to register, visit the website HERE

Questions? Email Next Gen

Adventure Goes Bowling

Saturday, March 7th 5:00pm-7:00pm at Hi Joy Bowl

Join us for a Youth Summer Camp Bowling Fundraiser supporting our students heading to Black Diamond Camp this summer. Bowling is $18 per person and includes shoe rental and two hours of bowling, with 16 lanes reserved. All funds raised will go to our general camp fund.

The whole congregation is invited to come bowl, and even if you’re not planning to bowl, you’re encouraged to come hang out, socialize, and help cheer everyone on as we support our youth.

This section is a weekly reminder that God is Good!

He is good to us every single day & we will praise His name!

This God is Good reflection is shared from our Next Gen & Outreach Director, Jennifer:

At the end of January, we had the joy of hosting Sweets and Strings, a fundraising event for the South Kitsap High School Symphony Booster Club. For the past year, the leadership at Adventure of Faith has felt called to lean in and intentionally support our local schools, so when this opportunity arose, we eagerly said yes.

Our Outreach Department prepared 16 beautiful charcuterie boards with the help of a small but mighty team who assembled them. An even smaller group stayed to host, filling water pitchers, making coffee, and kindly directing wandering students. In the kitchen, some of our youth leaders served side by side, building relationships not only with each other but also with a few of our teens in a new and meaningful setting.

The evening was filled with lovely music. Over 100 guests attended, and nearly 70 students performed throughout the night. The booster club board was genuinely surprised that we would open our building, provide food and beverages, help set up and decorate...all at no cost.

As I reflect on that night, I feel deeply blessed. To see the building and resources God has entrusted to us used to bless and surprise our neighbors was a beautiful reminder: God is indeed good.

This space in the newsletter is a small way we continue to celebrate the goodness of God all year long, and practice being aware of His presence in our lives. So, if you have stories of God's goodness big or small, hit reply to this email and send them our way. We would love to hear them, pray in praise over them and talk to you about sharing them.



To spur thoughts on God's goodness, consider asking yourself these questions:

What Good have you witnessed recently?

What Good has God brought into your life?

What Good has God prompted you to do for one another?

God is Good!!