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This past Sunday we kicked off a new series: Life Worth Living. Part of how this series will be built out over the next six weeks is through a Life Worth Living box each family can take home to be guided deeper into each week's theme, Scripture, reflection, and prayer. If you reserved a box, but have not yet picked it up, you can come pick them up at the church. If you did not reserve a box and want one, please reach out to Pastor Justin (justin@parkwayumc.org).
New Small Group
Part of the Life Worth Living Series that we just started has been working to get people plugged into small groups. We planned for this in the weekly questions and box-content. What we found, however, is that building a smooth and easy of starting new small groups and finding the right places that busy schedules line up is more difficult than we thought it would be. BUT! -- we didn't quit trying.
A new small group, co-hosted by Jachin and myself will meet this Sunday at 4pm in the Ministry Center.
Meeting time will run between 45 min - 1 hour, leaving plenty of time to get kids fed and the family ready to start another week. Childcare will be provided. This group is open to all people. A small group works best when it is at most 12-14 people -- should we have more than that we will all meet together and then break off into smaller groups for discussion.
The small group is discussion and relationship based -- not so much a traditional Bible study. The best prep you can do is to follow along in your Life Worth Living box this week, and if you don't have one, please reach out to the church office -- we will get you one!
A Side Note About Sunday Morning Small Groups...
I know that some responses said that Sunday morning would work best to find a group. I understand that -- many churches operate with a Sunday School hour balanced with worship. Parkway's set up -- two services with 30 minutes between, along with programming for children and students during worship, doesn't provide a great way to offer time, space, or childcare for groups to meet. The only way to make this a reality is a change in how Sunday morning is scheduled, and/or if more people are willing to give their time to work in our nursery, children's and student ministry. If you're willing to give an hour of your time once or twice a month to give us more breathing room on making ministries possible, please reach out to Becky Betz, Director of Children's Ministry (rbetz@parkwayumc.org).
One Service at 10.30am on October 1st
This is quick reminder that our children's choir will help lead worship on Sunday, October 1st at the single 10.30 am service (mark your calendars 9.00 people!). Because of children being active in the service, there will be no children's Sunday School. Nursery will operate as usual.
Charge Conference 2023
Charge Conference is a once-a-year meeting with our District Superintendent (UMC Regional Manager) to take care of some business, like making sure there is a budget in place and nominating leaders to the Parkway board -- as well as celebrate the good work and ministry we've done over the past year.
Our Charge Conference will be Thursday, October 5th at 6pm. We've just received this date, and it is coming up quickly. We will work on the plans and details and get more information to you as soon as we can. But mark your calendars for Charge Conference now!
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