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Seeking Refuge MAY 2020 VOLUME 22 ISSUE 5 SEEKING REFUGE “When I am afraid, I put my trust fit through the door, but even just sticking her head in in you.” Psalm 56:3 the cat door gives her some measure of comfort. How many of you have a dog? A Here’s what struck me. This fierce-sounding dog was cat? We have a dog and a cat. Our facing something that was frightening to her. As she cat’s name is Annie, and our dog’s was facing the storm, the one thing that could calm name is Lainey. Today’s note of her down was seeking refuge in a place she felt secure. encouragement is actually inspired by our dog. Lainey is a larger dog, she weighs about This is how it is for all of us. Some of us are really 80lbs, and she has a big bark. But, she’s really friendly. brave and courageous people, but there are moments She’s brave, courageous and fierce when she needs to amidst the coronavirus pandemic in which we all find be…except when ourselves struck with anxiety and fear. I’m reminded she’s not. Here is a that as I’m looking to God for refuge, and recognize picture of Lainey that God is there for me, I feel God’s peace. with our three boys: The storms didn’t go away when Lainey found what Do you know what she felt was a safe place, she just knew that she felt frightens Lainey better, and somehow that she was going to be ok. most? A storm. That’s the same thing with God, and the role our faith Whenever there is a plays in our lives - each day, every day, putting our- storm, Lainey runs selves in God’s arms and recognizing that God has a for cover and hides hold of our lives and no matter what happens, God’s in the lowest, most not going to let us go. secure part of our house. I want to encourage you to be people who are doing Lainey rides out the that every day, trusting in God. I encourage you to lightning and thunder of memorize this verse from Psalm 56:3 this week: the storm in our “When I am afraid I put my trust in you.” Say it over basement. and over again, and you’re going to feel what I think Lainey felt when she sought shelter and refuge from In our old house, we had the storm. a cat door leading down to the basement. Here’s Faithfully in Christ, a picture of Lainey seeking cover. She can’t Rev. Nathan Esser MINISTRYLIBRARY NEWS 2.6. THE HEARTBEAT OF THE CHURCH I miss seeing your face Sunday ministry teams, Elders, Deacons, Eric and our youth, morning. I miss seeing you at the Kathie and our elementary kids, Cathy Newcomb is church for various meetings or meeting with her toddler Kingdom Kids! It is such a gatherings during the week. I miss blessing to be able to see each other and find out how stopping by for a cup of tea and a everyone is doing and how we are spending our time as visit. I miss you! But during this we shelter-in-place. time of coronavirus and social/physical distancing we must be cautious and stay healthy and that means we And one of my favorites . as worship leaders we were need to stay apart. But being distant from one another so desperate to worship with you we printed out your does not mean we must disconnect. On the contrary! A photos and placed them on the pews! Not in your exact time of change and disorientation is exactly the time we spot but on the correct side! Maybe that should be our need each other. We need to stay connected! new seating chart for the day we return to worship to- gether! The staff at FPC have been working very hard to try to come up with creative ways to help the congregation We are all in this together and your church family is stay connected. The Elders, Deacons, and Membership here for you. If you are feeling lonely, please call me, if Team have taken on the joyful task of regularly checking you just want to share about how you are spending time, in with 80 of our members. I have heard such wonderful please call me; if you’d like to pray together, call me. stories about new friendships made and interesting fam- Know you are not alone. You’ve got people. And most ily/friend/hometown connections discovered. It is a importantly . we have a loving God that is walking small world isn’t it! We have 15 of our older members this new journey with us. We are never alone! Never SESSION HIGHLIGHTS writing weekly letters to 59 of our children – from 2 have been and never will be! Faithfully, Pastor Pat years old to 5th grade. How cool is that! And I know that many of you are reaching out and running errands, picking up groceries, making phone calls – being the visible face of Christ to others! We have groups gathering via Zoom video meetings – the Monday morning study group, the bell choral Bible study group, CHILDREN’S MINISTRY 3. CHILDREN’S MINISTRY CONNECTIONS ...How do we stay connected when we are staying at home? 1. Weekly news with activities are shared by email with families for use at home. On Wednesdays families re- ceive a lesson with links to video and activities. Friday emails often have preparation for Sunday morning wor- ship complete with resources and support. 2. Pen Pals. 15 members of the congregation have been writing letters to the children of the church. Each adult has agreed to write one letter a week to four different kids. These kids have loved getting special mail and forming new connections at FPC. Want to get involved? Get ahold of Kathie Douma or Rev. Pat Hammond. 3. Special Home visits. This weekend, Sunday School teacher Jonathan Tilk visited each of the kids in his Sunday School class. Kids were excited to receive a cool drawstring backpack but delighted to see their teacher at their front door! Kingdom Kids teacher Cathy New- comb delivered special projects to each of the kids in the classes. 4. Toddler video lessons. Megan Gulden, the lead teacher for bi-weekly toddlers and twos class, has recorded vid- SESSION eo lessons for her kids in her classes where she address- es each member of the class! 5. Zoom meetings for Kid’s Club (elementary age) and pre- school Sunday School Zoom meetings began this week with requests for weekly gatherings. The kids love to see OUTSTANDING SERVICE RECOGNIZED their familiar leaders and friends. This is also a great op- portunity to talk about feelings and show what kids have been doing at home. Individual calls and messaging. Would your child like to set up an individual appointment with Kathie Douma or a teacher? Contact Kathie to set up an appointment. Or look for her on Kid’s Messenger. Summer Plans: The Children’s Ministry Team has voted to cancel Summer Music Camp. Vacation Bible School will not be held at the church, but curriculum will be shared with families to participate in some kind of VBS at home or possibly in small groups. Please be patient as we adjust our plans. We are just as disappointed as you but the Children’s Ministry Team wants to do everything we can to help lead the way for kids to return to school in the fall as well as to protect our children, families and volunteers. YOUTH MINISTRY / www.fpcsiouxfalls.org/youth 4. VIRTUAL YOUTH MINISTRY big, Presbyouth family. As we figured out our Wednesday night activities, we wanted to continue connecting with our students in other ways. We start- ed adding a Monday afternoon hangout session on Zoom along with a couple special broadcasts on our Instagram account to encourage our students throughout this crazy time. This is why we wanted to find a way When you think of MIDDLE Ministry SCHOOL has always MISSION been STAYto deliver a small gift to our stu- technology, and more specifically, personal, so the question we had to dents. who likes to handle technology more figure out was how we were going to after switching to connecting with take a model of ministry that had This past week we had the people virtually, you naturally think been working for so long, and com- chance to deliver over fifty goody of a younger generation. Perhaps pletely change the dynamic of how bags and hand written cards to our from that old notation of a grand- we did our weekly ministry program- students to keep encouraging them. child helping a grandparent figure ming. Our one goal was to keep our It was a wonderful chance to take out technology, or kids spending students connected, but how are we just a couple of minutes to interact hours and hours playing games and going to do that? and hang out with our awesome kids. being on their phones, teens and During this time of social “distance” young adults are often associated After a week of trial and error we doesn’t mean we should isolate with being tech savvy. While many were able to use our different plat- ourselves from so many who care of the above facts are true, one thing forms to broadcast our weekly and love us when there are still op- that teens and young adults crave is Wednesday night programming portunities to stay close relationally.
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