WINDWOOD CHURCH

MISSION SPOTLIGHT For the month of September, Community Outreach would like to highlight Northwest Assistance Ministers & Meals On Wheels! Learn more on pages 5

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH - MEET US AT THE CHURCH HOUSE OUR LIVING WATER TEAM Senior Pastor - Rev. Kevin C. Rudolph What’s the Church House you ask? Is it the new RETURNS TO HAITI counseling building? No, but that’s part of it. Learn more about our Windwood Team’s So, what is the Church House? Well, we all know upcoming trip to Haiti and the importance of the that the Church is not the buildings, but the people! So when we work they do there. See page 6 talk about the buildings at 10555 Spring Cypress Road, we all know that these buildings are not ‘Windwood’ but instead where the Church named ‘Windwood’ meets! Continue on page 1 WEDNESDAY @ WINDWOOD It’s that time again! Classes begin on A FUTURE & A HOPE Wednesday, September 4th with dinner at A Future & A Hope - Rev. Dr. Patricia Ryan 6:00pm & classes at 6:30pm! I don’t know about you, but I can hardly believe that Learn more on pages 7-8 summer is now officially over – and we know this because school is back in session! – Where does the time go?! . . .And, make no mistake, friends, time continues to march on. I think what’s important in this life is what MARK YOUR CALENDARS TODAY we do with the time we have been given. . . Read more on page 2 Fall is in full swing, be sure to mark your calendars so you don’t miss a thing! A120 FELLOWSHIP See upcoming events on pages 9-11 Prayer Group Contributor– Ann Miller The Pacific theater of World War II was officially over when Japan formally signed surrender documents on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. But for many who experienced the brutality of the enemy, the memories did not 55+ Bus Trip end—they battled on. It was that way for Louis Zamperini. Continue the story on page 3 Tuesday, October 1

EVEN THE COMMUNIST SAW THIS! Join the 55+ Group for a bus trip Senior Pastor - Rev. Kevin C. Rudolph In July we celebrated the historic down to the Port of Houston for a accomplishment of 50 years ago, when Neil Armstrong became the first man in history to Boat Tour! Be sure to save the set foot on the moon! It was an astounding accomplishment, especially considering it was done through the efforts of men and date and check The Latest for women using less computing power than is in any of our ‘smart phones’. More of the calculations were done on a slide rule than more information! a computer! Read more on page 4 Sunday, September 15th - Meet Us At The Church House

hat’s the Church House you ask? Is it the new counseling building? No, but that’s part of it.

So, what is the Church House? Well, we all know that the Church is not the Wbuildings, but the people! So when we talk about the buildings at 10555 Spring Cypress Road, we all know that these buildings are not ‘Windwood’ but instead where the Church named ‘Windwood’ meets! Language, being the imperfect tool that it is, uses the ‘short-hand’ of referring to the buildings as the Church, but we know that this is not so – the Church is the people.

“WELL, ON SUNDAY, By the way, the buildings at 10555 Spring Cypress are also not the SEPTEMBER 15TH, ‘house of God’. That is another idiom, but it should not be taken literally. God doesn’t WINDWOOD WILL BE have (or need) a house! God is God everywhere, and our entire universe is too small to JOINING IN AND contain him. The phrase ‘God’s house’ was used to indicate that it was not built to be a CELEBRATING “NATIONAL BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY”. store, or a shop, but a ‘house’ dedicated to the worship of God. That is not bad in and of MANY CONGREGATIONS itself, but to be more accurate, the buildings at 10555 Spring Cypress Road are not ‘God’s ACROSS THE COUNTRY JOIN house’ but the ‘house’ where the Church (the people) called Windwood, meets and uses IN TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS for the glory of God. Hence, if we want to be accurate, the