Headwaters Newsletter His Church Is Not a Building Or a Physical Location
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Headwaters Newsletter His Church is not a building or a physical location. It is a living, breathing, holy temple built with living stones. September 6, 2020 September INSIDE THIS ISSUE: ■ Register for Women’s Tuesday Morning Bible Study ■ NEW!!! Youth Small Groups ■ HomeGroups Sign-up Deadline Sept 12 ■ Pray for our Educators ■ Safe Families Opportunities ■ Kids News ■ Birth Announcement Women’s Ministry Fall Tuesday Morning Bible Study 1st & 2nd Thessalonians Tuesday Morning Bible Study is a classes small and have socially great opportunity to bond with fellow distanced seating, 9:30-11:00am & sisters in Christ, grow in the grace and 12:30-2pm. Masks are optional. knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, and be equipped to share the gospel to this Childcare is available for children lost and dying world. preschool and younger with a suggested donation of $10 per In 1 & 2 Thessalonians we will We will be studying Paul’s letter to the child/maximum of $20 per family journey through Paul’s letters Thessalonians. 1st & 2nd Thessalonians for the semester. (Pre-registration is will teach us about living a life that is required to insure we have enough and discover the grace and pleasing to God and give us insight into volunteers to accommodate the peace we have in Christ. We the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. number of children—space is will learn to stand firm in His Kristy Wolfe will be leading the study. limited.) steadfast love. My prayer is There is no cost for this study. that we will find comfort in our The Bible will be the primary All resource for this study. You will have materials will be provided. hearts and establish them in passages to read and meditate on every good work and word as weekly. There will be questions to You can sign up on our website, we anticipate His return. I invite answer in the study guide provided. with the Church Center App, or by you ladies to join me as we turn The study guide will be distributed clicking HERE. ■ before the course begins on Sept 15. our eyes upon Jesus and look full If you would rather do an online in his wonderful face, and may Tuesday Morning Bible Study is open to study, we recommend signing up the things of this world grow women 18 years of age and older. The for “The Answers to your Deepest strangely dim in the light of his fall semester will be 11 weeks, Longings: 40 Days Through the Bible” from Proverbs 31 Ministries. It glory and grace. Sept 15 - Nov 24, at Wallen Road. We have two class times available to keep runs Sept 7-Nov 7. Sign up . Kristy Wolfe HERE Bible Study Leader Youth Ministry News “The fall season is upon us, and I am excited to explore what ministry will look like in today’s ever-changing world. I am thankful to even be able to meet as a ministry right now and provide a safe environment for students to learn about Christ.” - Jon Dammeyer, Youth Ministry Director Summer Testimonies earlier, we will move inside for music and the lesson. We will Paintball, Purity, Pork, This summer we heard from 18 also be breaking into Jr. High and & Pancakes of our leaders, each sharing their Sr. High groups, which will allow personal testimony of how God for more intentional age-directed This GUYS ONLY event for Jr. took them from “dead in their teaching. Students and leaders & Sr. High will be at Craig and trespasses and sins” to “alive in are asked to bring a mask. Social Tonia Smith’s house September Christ Jesus.” This brought us distancing may be difficult at 27th from 12:30-4pm. This will into our “But God” series, which times, and they may be asked to be a great day for the “REAL started this past Wednesday. wear it. MEN” of our youth group to Students will spend four weeks get together and eat good learning about how God has Small Groups food and talk about how to made a way for dead souls who live pure lives for Christ. Oh are trapped in sin to be made Small Groups are for 6th grade yeah, and shoot each other alive in Christ Jesus. This is a through 12th grade students. with paintballs. No registration great time to bring friends as the Each Small Group will have necessary. Cost is $10 to cover gospel will be shared each week. 5-7ish students with an adult the costs of equipment and leader. Groups will meet every food. We will be driving a bus Bible Memory other week. (Girls and Guys from Wallen Road immediately Groups meet on alternating following the 10:45am service. Challenge weeks.) Sunday nights at Wells If you would like your student Street from 5:30-7pm. Guys’ first to ride on this bus to the event Students have been challenged meeting will be Sept 20. Girls’ and back to Wallen Road at to memorize Ephesians 2:1-10. If first meeting will be Sept 27. 4:30, email Jon at jdammeyer@ we have 10 students memorize headwaterschurch.org. ■ the verse, we’ll have an ice cream Small group is a great party. If we have 10 students and opportunity for students to 5 leaders memorize the verse, build deep friendships and be then we will have an ice cream discipled by a Youth Ministry party AND a pizza party in back- volunteer. Students will SAVE THE DATE to-back weeks. develop habits in reading their Bible and Prayer that will last Bonfire Wednesday Nights a lifetime! Cost is $10 for the Jr High - Fri, Oct 16 devotional book. You can pay Sr. High – Sat, Oct 17 This fall we will begin outside at online or at the first meeting. Wells Street each night for game Sign up HERE today! time. Since it is getting darker Winter Retreat Dec 31,2020– Jan 2, 2021 “Jesus told his disciples in the upper room that their defining mark would be their love for each other. The restrictions on group size have made it difficult for local congregations to effectively live that command. The goal for Home Groups is to provide a tangible means for the “one- another” commands of Scripture to find their natural home. ” Luke Suciu Director of Discipleship What is a HomeGroup? questions, and any other tend to have a better relational directed contented that the environment. Outdoors will also Headwaters HomeGroups are group leaders have been asked work when weather permits. If small groups that meet together to include. The final twenty homes are not the best fit for every other week (8 meetings minutes is designated for taking the group the church buildings total), for an hour and a half, at requests and praying. can be made available upon a regular time that works for arrangement. everyone within the group, with the purpose of encouraging and When do these groups building each other up in faith (I begin and end? How big will the Thes. 5:8-11) The groups will begin in mid- groups be? September and end in mid- Groups will be limited to 8-10 What do we do with December. adults and capped at 10 kids. the kids? Each group will decide what What is the How is AWANA works best for the group. If kids book about? incorporated? are old enough to play without interruption in another part of Relationships: A Mess Worth During the first thirty minutes the home, that is great. Older Making is a book by Paul Tripp of fellowship time at least siblings could watch younger and Timothy Lane that focuses two adults will sit down with kids, if kids are old enough they on connecting the truth of who kids who are working through could be left at home, or the God is to how Christians should AWANA books and listen to their group could collectively hire a live together. It is an accessible verses from the last two weeks. babysitter. Whatever works best book with short chapters that If more time is needed for for the group. Each group will be will provide a great foundation verses it can be squeezed in at given a small budget that can be from which the group can build. the end. This is the only official used to help offset these costs. component of AWANA that will Is there a cost? happen during HomeGroups. What does a regular We are asking $5/ book to help How are the groups HomeGroup night offset our cost. Other than that, each group may rotate organized? look like? on who brings food and the The congregation will sign up aforementioned option on Generally, a night will be and be organized into groups babysitters but there are no organized by the first thirty based roughly on life stage. minutes being relational. other designated costs. Sharing dessert, talking through life developments, Do we have to meet in and just generally living life SIGN UP DEADLINE someone’s home? together. The next forty minutes Register by Sept 12 will be a dialogue on the The intention is for groups to by clicking HERE, on our book, designated discussion meet in homes because they website or with the Church Center App. ■ 20-Something meeting this Sunday (9/6). is NOT Safe Families for Children New Volunteer Training: Safe Families for Children Northeast Indiana invites you to a training event to learn about our ministry and what it means to serve as a host family or family coach through Safe Families! September 12th 8:30am -12:30pm Wallen Road, Room A-1 Please sign up at This training is requiredHERE for all of our host family and family coach applicants.