update

Summer Missions Trips

Once again this summer, a number of LCC’ers are headed in various directions to take part in short-term efforts to share the gospel with those who have never heard.

•At the start of June, Mike and Sandi Miller will conclude a medical missions trip to one of the poorest areas of the globe, outside of Nairobi, Kenya.

•In July a team with several LCC’ers including Mike Carney, Sam Weiant, and Dan and Caleb Masula will also go to Kenya with E3 Partners.

•Also in July, Kate Weiant, who has served the last two years in Kenya, will complete a short furlough at home and return there to teach and reach people.

•In August Michael and Anna Gildein will head out for another E3 Partners mission to Colombia.

•Also in August, Valerie Banfield will go to Kenya with E3 Partners.

We will commission these individuals before they leave, and we invite you to partner with them in prayer as they live out the Great Commission in profound and overt ways this summer. If you’re heading out this summer and we didn’t include you, please let us know.

Laughs for Lilly

Four-year old Lilly Webb was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia on March 23rd, 2010. She has been undergoing aggressive chemotherapy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital since that time.

Laughs for Lilly is a family fundraising event to benefit the Webb family and Kids ‘n Kamp on Saturday, June 5, at LCC. A scrapbook event will take place from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., and a vendor fair and family activities (including face painting and door prizes) will run from 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Contact Lyndsi O’Brien for details.

You can find more information on Lilly’s progress at www.caringbridge.org/visit/lillywebb.

The LCC MTV Awards Night

It’s an all-church (adults) social and “just for fun” night. During June, all of our cell groups will create music videos to an existing song and then submit them for impartial (!) judging. On Friday night, July 16th, everyone is invited to an awards show where we’ll show all the entries on the big screen and award the winners for best videos. Here’s the best part: the dress for the evening will be “mock formal.” So pull out your own prom or bridesmaid dress, or go out to the second hand store and assemble your own creation! Serve yourself some light refreshments, enjoy the red carpet interviews as people arrive, and live out Ecclesiastes 3:4 together. No onsite childcare is provided, but students from 7th grade and up are welcome.

Church Plant Update

Catalyst Community Church moves full-throttle toward an official opening this fall with Sunday pre-launch services moving permanently to Sunday mornings on June 6th. A summer series, “We are Catalyst,” is setting the tone and vision for a great new church dedicated to reaching the lost of this generation in the northwest corridor between Dublin and Marysville. Come see it firsthand at 10:00 a.m. on Sundays at the Glacier Ridge Elementary School.

Building Break-In

Several Hilliard-area churches have been victimized by middle of the night break-ins and burglaries in the last several months, and, in May, LCC became one of them. Thieves broke through a window in our new office section and stole equipment, including a computer, scanner, guitar, and large-screen TV from the staff offices and the new youth room. While we feel the loss, we’re grateful that no one was hurt nor was the damage worse. Pray that those responsible will be both brought to justice and brought to mercy by encountering the amazing message of Christ. And if you see any suspicious activity around the building (other than the usual odd behavior of the staff guys), please contact the authorities.

Tenant Needed

Yep, this is the same blurb you saw here last month (and that means it’s still worth mentioning, a bit more urgently this time). We’re looking for a new “tenant” for our empty back storage space. The nice folks from Jack’s Appliance will be moving out of the unfinished, 9,000 sq. ft. section of our building by the end of this summer. We’d love to have someone else lease out that space so that we can continue to use proceeds from that rent to offset our budget needs. It’s simple, “shade-and-shelter” storage space. If you know of a business that might be looking for that kind of space, please contact the church office at 614.527.9661.

Turn Up the Radio

We’re planning a unique Sunday morning teaching series this fall, where we will tap into the messages communicated in our current-day culture through music and then reflect on how to respond to them with God’s perspective. “Turn Up the Radio” will pick two to three recent, popular songs from the last year or so and use them as the basis for looking honestly at what God has to say about the values, questions, perspectives, and the “cry of the heart” that is reflected in all expressions of art.

And YOU CAN HELP choose the songs we use during the series. During July we’ll have a survey form on Sunday mornings inviting you to suggest recent, popular songs you think would be worth considering for the series. Watch for the forms on Sunday mornings this summer and then consider inviting someone who’s not connected with church to come with you to the series starting after Labor Day.

Kids’ Life Is About Partnering with Parents

Consider this… in an average 12 months, Kids’ Life volunteers will have approximately 40 hours to spend with your child. We’re pumped about making those 40 hours relevant and impactful as we seek to influence your children in the areas of faith and character. But – get this. In the same 12 months, parents will have roughly 3,000 hours with their children, and that’s after we subtract sleeping and school time.

The math here is pretty simple. Kids’ Life would be missing the boat if we didn’t spend some of our time, effort, and resources on partnering with parents to help them along their journey of teaching their kids about faith, character, and a relationship with Jesus Christ. And here’s how we do that:

Partnering through relationships. For example:

-Your elementary student’s cell group leader wants to meet you

-Take time to say hi to the leaders in your preschool child’s room

Offering resources you can use at home. You’ll find them on our web site:

-Small Talk Sheets

-Fridge Door Cards

-God Time Cards

-Family Time Virtue Packs

Imagine your time at home with your children represented by the color red. Picture Kids’ Life’s influence on them as yellow. By working together, we will merge to create a vibrant, life-changing voice in your child’s life… we call it ORANGE.

Looking for more ORANGE Resources? Consider these:

-www.orangeparents.com

-Parenting Beyond Your Capacity by Reggie Joiner and Carey Nieuwhof