Friday and Saturday (Nov. 6 & 7) we had our Breakthrough Event, our Appreciative Inquiry Summit. We spent time Discovering, Dreaming, Designing, and Delivering, all listening to what it is God has for us as a church in the coming years. We came up with 6 Strategic Initiatives that we'll be working on implementing over the next 5 years. It's exciting stuff. God is moving in incredible ways at Emmanuel.
Emmanuel Covenant Church
Just under a week from our Breakthrough Gathering, we look at the importance of prayer... prayer for this event specifically, but also in our lives as individuals and our life together as a church family.
Text: Acts 10
Preacher: Pastor Eric Hedberg
Date: October 25th, 2015
This week wraps up our SHIFT series. This week we look at what it looks like to SHIFT in to Action. …
Text: Genesis 12:1-3, Matthew 10:37-39
Preacher: Andrès Rincon
Date: October 18th, 2015
In the 5th week of our SHIFT series, our guest preacher Andrès Rincon helped us look in to the need to SHIFT Our Perspective. …
On this Sunday, the day before Thanksgiving, we looked at an unlikely SHIFT topic. SHIFT Your Ability to See Pain. We looked at the Why, as well as the Whats, the Whos and the Hows that we find from Micah 6:8 and Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan).
Continuing in our SHIFT Series, we look at what it means to SHIFT Your Idea of How God Can Use You.
Continuing in our SHIFT Series, we look at what it means to SHIFT Our Relationships With Other People.
In our first week of the CHIC 2015 SHIFT series, we looked at the need to SHIFT Our Relationship With God.
This week Pastor Eric walked us through a sermon from Pastor Craig Groeschel that talked about 5 C's as areas to grow and improve. The challenge is to choose just 1, and to grow 5% in that 1 area this year... building your Confidence, expanding your Connections, growing in a specific Competence, strengthening your Character, and increasing your Commitment.
As we wrap up our second year of the Same Passage 5 Ways Series, the Emmanuel Family was invited to share things that God was speaking to them through this series. Two members of our church family shared, and then Pastor Eric followed up pointing out the need for a posture that allows us to be open to God doing the impossible.