“New Leaf” Worship Service – Oakmont will once again offer a contemporary worship service on Sunday evenings, starting out with a once-monthly format. The service will feature a live band playing contemporary –styled Christian music, projected lyrics & other worship content, and a brief message. New Leaf will typically meet on the first Sunday of the month at 6:30pm. Our first service will be on February 12th (second Sunday of the month), though, so as to avoid a conflict with the Super Bowl. The New Leaf schedule for the spring will be: March 4, April 1(Palm Sunday), and May 6. Please join us for “New Leaf” on February 12th, and please invite your friends!
New Congregational Care Team Needs “Shepherds” – Oakmont is beginning a new ministry specifically intended for our homebound members. We’re organizing our efforts so as to better address the growing needs that our congregation is facing. What can you do to help? We’re recruiting “shepherds” who will help us maintain contact, and keep up-to-date information, with some of our folks who are no longer as active and able as they used to be. Each shepherd will have responsibility to stay in touch with a few people, and will also help us with care and contact at certain times of the year (birthdays, Christmas, Easter, etc.). The work of all the shepherds will be coordinated by our Congregational Care Coordinators, Gilene Dawson & Helen Williamson. Interested? Please contact Gilene or Helen right away!
You Might Be in Trouble If… For the next few weeks I will be preaching a sermon series entitled: “You Might Be in Trouble If…” The scriptures are filled with stories that are shared with us to help us. “The way of truth” and the “paths of righteousness” are lifted for us to see in the pages of the Old and New Testaments. In the Bible we find examples of faithfulness and devotion, stories meant to inspire us to lead lives that are likewise faithful and devoted to God. But in the scriptures we also find stories about situations and circumstances that aren’t quite so faithful, so righteous, so devoted, or so intelligent. These stories can help us as well, as we consider missteps and mistakes that would be well for us to avoid. Please join us on Sunday mornings in February (and into March) at Oakmont to hear a bit aboutow you might in trouble, if ____________.
