We’ve been working on a little experiment in the Wytsma home by putting Sara in with her two sisters in their bedroom – all three girls together. There’s been a lot more playing than sleeping the last two nights!! Sara is on cloud 9 and reminds me of the kids that would never go to
Someone sent me this quote today: “No local church can afford to go without the encouragement and nourishment that will come to it by sending away its best people.” – David Penman It echoes the mantra that we attached to the name of Antioch… that we would be willing to take the best of what
The Family Camp shirts just came in (as modeled by Brandon Reynolds)!! Family Camp fun starts today at 4:00 at Camp Tadmor!
The staff just said goodbye to our summer interns with a little help from the Westside Bakery. Caitlin leaves in the morning and Rachel heads to China in two weeks. It was a blast having them on board and pioneering a program that we hope to have 15 – 20 college students in next summer!
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Summer Swamp Days were a hit with the Wytsma girls… and I’m betting that they were with lots of other kids as well!! P.S. The girls won the “penny wars” – the spare change competition that raised over $360 to benefit Uganda. Till next year…
It’s official!! We’ll be starting a second service (8:00) in the next couple of weeks. Having too many people in church has got to be the greatest problem in the world :)
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So I’ve been thinking a lot about something that came out in the sermon last Sunday. I was discussing Paul’s writing in the book of Philippians where he states: If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know!
Last night I met with an elder board from another church in town and someone asked me what we do at Antioch to help people grow spiritually. The first thing I said was that I had messed up by under emphasizing small groups when we started and that there really wasn’t any other formal discipleship
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