Get Out And Serve 2019
By Janet Nordlund --
This Sunday, August 25, is GET OUT and SERVE Community Sunday!!!
"For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power." 1 Corinthians 2:2-5
At GPBC we want a “demonstration of the Spirit’s power” to come from inside the walls of our faith family home and OUT into the neighborhoods, parks, businesses, homes, communities, city of Portland and world all around us! We want to help people follow JESUS together!!!
One of the primary ways we invite “a demonstration of the Spirit’s power” is through prayer. PRAYER IS KINGDOM MISSION SERVICE!
As we pray, we go with the Holy Spirit and we get the Holy Spirit out ahead of us so that we know that all faith that comes “does not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.”
This CS we are going to GET OUT and SERVE together working side by side and using Prayer as our Kingdom Tool!
We will begin our service in the auditorium and then everyone will have an opportunity to Get Out and Serve by choosing one of the below service teams each of which will have designated prayer times, Bible verses that engage our children and families and opportunities for community connections. We will serve for about 45 -50 minutes. We will then regroup in the auditorium for a short Gathered Sharing Time and then take our picnic lunches over to Gabriel Park for more connecting, fun, and sharing of our Jesus stories!!!!
Let’s PRAY now for “a demonstration of the Spirit’s power” in and with us on Sunday so we may see faith that rests on the power of God grow in us, and out from us into our neighbors, into Portland and into this whole world for Jesus’ Glory!
Your Community Sunday Team
Service Team Choices:
Campus, Disc Golf Course Spruce up Team: Mary Ellen Adler, Doug Wachsmuth, Pat Murphy
This team will do light physical work outside and need gardening gloves and will have 2 designated prayer times
Children's Ministry Partner Team: Sally Bland
This team will be inside in our Children's area helping with resource cleaning and re-stocking needs and will have 3 designated prayer times and chairs for sitting
Prayer Walk Teams:
- Inside Prayer Walk: Laurel Nordlund, Caris Power
- This team will walk in and around our building praying for all of the ministries and all others who use our building each week
- Two Outside Prayer Walk Teams:
- These teams will walk out into our neighborhoods on a prayer walk which will involve uphill and downhill streets so wear comfortable shoes
Team A: Scott Family
Top entrance Shadowhills apts, Stephen’s Creek Crossing/Jewish CC, Top of hill behind church on Nebraska
Team B: Bettinger Family
Lower parking lot Habitat houses, Wilson HS, Top Entrance Shadowhills apts.
- These teams will walk out into our neighborhoods on a prayer walk which will involve uphill and downhill streets so wear comfortable shoes