Opportunities to Serve

I would like to inform you of a couple of opportunities to serve in the month of November. First, our church has partnered with Pinewood Elementary School. We are thrilled to come alongside them and help in any way possible. On November 17, they are having a Fall Festival at the school from 5:30-7:00. They have asked us to help them in three ways:

• First, Pinewood needs volunteers to staff their booths so their teachers can spend time with students and parents. If you agree to volunteer, they would like you to be at the school around 3:00 to help set up. If you cannot make it at 3:00, then do the best you can.
• Second, Pinewood needs tents (the ones you would set up at a tailgate). They estimate they need around 15 tents. If you would be willing to loan them a tent, that would be wonderful. Their preference would be to have the tents the day before the event. My advice would be to label your tent somehow.
• Third, Pinewood needs cakes for a Cake Walk. They asked if you could deliver the cakes to the Art Room after 1:30 on the 17th.

You can volunteer to serve in one or all of the above ways. We will have a sign-up sheet at the church if you are interested.

Our second opportunity is to serve in a Community Thanksgiving Meal on November 20, from 4-7pm. Our church is partnering with several other churches in Jacksonville to offer a FREE meal to the people in our community who might not have one this Thanksgiving. The meal will be served in the Jacksonville Lighthouse Charter School Cafeteria. If you would like to volunteer, you can sign-up online at www.jaxsbc.org/thanksgivingmeal. I hope you will plan on volunteering to serve our community.

Ministry Fair

Over the past couple of months, I have been preaching a series titled, "God's Design for the Church." We have been digesting the early chapters of the book of Acts to discover what the early church did and how they functioned as a community of believers. I wanted to jot a quick reminder to you of the Ministry Fair we are having this coming Sunday, October 9. As we peak into how the early church worked, we are going to discover they served one another. Here is a question we need to face, "Is everyone in the church using their spiritual gifts and serving?" We recognize that many in church, even ours, sit in a pew week after week and never join the ranks of those who serve. This is the reason behind the Ministry Fair. The Ministry Fair will be open in fellowship hall two times. We are asking those who attend the first service to go to fellowship hall from 10:30-11:00. If you attend the second service, we invite you to go to fellowship hall from 12:00-12:30. We will have several booths set up for you to look around and learn how you can serve in our church. I hope and pray each one of you will take time this Sunday to prayerfully seek how you can serve in our church.