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10.01.2006 ISSUE 22 marshillchurch.org/voxpop The Story of West Seattle, page 10 Halloween: Holy or Hellish?, page 14 11006_voxpop_bglassco_Final.indd006_voxpop_bglassco_Final.indd 1 99/27/06/27/06 11:54:57:54:57 PMPM 1401 NW Leary Way A Welcome To First-time Readers Seattle, WA 98107 206.706.6641 Published on the first Sunday of every month, Vox Pop is the “voice of the people” known as Mars Hill Church. Mars Hill www.marshillchurch.org is a church based in the greater Seattle area. Weekly Sunday gatherings are in Shoreline, Ballard, and West Seattle. Events, activities, and small groups meet throughout the week. If you visit us on a Sunday, stop by the Information Desk for a casual introduction to our church community. For more information, teaching, music, and more, visit our website at www.marshillchurch.org. And check out Vox Pop Online (marshillchurch.org/voxpop) for more articles and content. October 01, 2006 Administration Pastor James Harleman Content Editor Andrew Myers Layout & Design Nicholas Francisco Brian Glassco “Once more unto the Breach…” Photo Editors Erin Silva Charging into the Fall Brian Casey Copy Editor Matthew Winslow Cover Art: Royden Lepp By Pastor James Harleman Options include the Gospel Class, which is a perfect place Mars Hill member Royden Lepp will be teaching a seminar to find out who we are, what we believe, and what it means at the annual Trumeau Arts Conference, this month at the This may be the first time many of you read Vox Pop. to be a member of our church. We invite and encourage West Seattle Campus (see page 12). In fact, this may be one of your first encounters with Mars all newcomers to attend this forum in order to assess their Hill Church. This is an amazing season of celebration and faith and what Mars Hill Church teaches (West Seattle’s opportunity and the perfect time to investigate who we are goal is to have a Gospel Class in January, though people and why we gather to celebrate our Lord Jesus. Nothing attending that campus are welcome to join us in Ballard or TABLE OF CONTENTS is the same at Mars Hill – except Jesus; this week will see Shoreline as able this fall). Community Groups are the best the kickoff of new services, a new public website, a new place to meet people, make friends, and dialogue about Feature sermon series, new midweek teaching, and more events our church community. Case in point: Vox Pop’s own Tera The Renaissance of Mars Hill Arts 12 than ever spread across multiple campuses. Miller. Read her story on page 7. This month, our church celebrates its tenth anniver- We’ve also printed a lot of invitations to our fall series, News sary. When I first came to Mars Hill Church, it was a little Vintage Jesus (see page 4). Take as many postcards you’ll It All Comes Down to This... 2 gothic service in the U-District with about a hundred in need; hand them out or mail them to friends, family, co- Kids’ Kore 3 attendance. I chatted with a few people, got the lay of the workers, or neighbors so they can join us. Our hope this Vintage Jesus 4 land, and began to figure out Mars Hill’s culture, theology, season is that a lot of new people will experience Jesus for Mars Hill Health Ministry 6 and community. Now – arriving at one of seven services in the first time and take a long, hard look at what implications People three locations – even with the best hospitality one needs this has for their lives. It’s one of the main reasons why Mars The Struggles of a New Christian 7 a roadmap to navigate our landscape. You can cruise this Hill Church (and Vox Pop) exists. Unplanned Pregnancy 8 magazine, swim through the website, check out random events, but really… where do you go from here? Our Shoreline and Ballard campuses start midweek Seattle programming this Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. Dead Sea Scrolls: Part 2 9 West Seattle History: Part 1 10 Scene & Screen mars hill | women’s ministry presents: Halloween: Pros & Cons 14 Online Etiquette 16 .BUVSJUZJO4JOHMFOFTT Book Review: From Homer to Harry Potter 17 Theology A morning of teaching for Spiritual Disciplines: Part 3 18 single, divorced, and widowed women over thirty. Overflow 20 Bodylife Community Groups 22 Ways to Serve & MH Financials 23 Saturday Nov. 4th Write to Vox Pop 10 a.m. in the Paradox Ideas, rants, and reactions? For women only Email them to [email protected]. 10.22.2006 Please RSVP at marshillchurch.org 2 October 01 2006 NEWS 11006_voxpop_bglassco_Final.indd006_voxpop_bglassco_Final.indd 2 99/27/06/27/06 11:55:07:55:07 PMPM Kids’ Kore & More Big Changes for Little People: The Developing Face of Mars Hill Children’s Ministry By Josh Wall most four-year-olds can’t even pronounce words like justifica- care of the massive influx of little people. It only got worse tion, anyone having dealt with kids can attest that they retain on one occasion, when he was confronted with a family who Transition: it’s all we ever hear about around Mars Hill far more of what is demonstrated for them than we would had never previously been to Mars Hill and for whose kids he these days—and by “these days” I mean the last 10 years. probably like. It only seems fitting to utilize that retention to had no room because he was so shorthanded. Fortunately, Every week more and more people are coming to Christ train our kids to understand the transforming grace of the a Mars Hill staff member was willing to take his kids out of and connecting into the Mars Hill body, leaving us in a Lord, which the new Caraway Street dramas better convey. Children’s Ministry to free up space for the newcomers. perpetual state of change to accommodate—and gladly so. Also in the new plan, Pastor Dick McKinley has de- And the other campuses aren’t much better off. West The accommodations, however, entail more than packing cided that every other week, the kids will take a break from Seattle, to date, has a mere five volunteers in the Children’s additional three-foot-tall chairs into the main auditorium for Caraway Street and it’s more active, tactile teaching style Ministry, and Ballard is consistently losing help as members Sunday worship services. Expansion to hold the growing to head back to the classroom for a concentrated time of willingly depart to lend a hand at the other campuses. At Mars Hill community also includes the acquisition of dozens Scripture study, memorization, and quizzing. Now I realize midweek services and Sunday services, teachers, helpers, of one-and-a-half-foot-tall chairs to put into little rooms for that even to many adult readers that sounds tortuous, but actors, directors, and baby wranglers are in high demand. little bottoms. no two people—children included—learn exactly the same As God continues to bless Mars Hill with ever-increas- Just as the developing Mars Hill vision spells constant way. For that very reason, this change-up has been pitched ing numbers of brothers and sisters, those of us who are change for adults and teens, our children have to roll with the to allow different kids to absorb knowledge of the Lord in a tall have to look down and remember that the little ones punches as well. I recently spoke with Mars Hill deacon and way that makes sense to them. Some kids just take better to need our attention as well. Jesus adores children and keeps director of Children’s Ministry at Shoreline, Dave Lilleness, books, lectures, discussions, and quizzes. Maybe they have blessing our body with more of them (at an alarming rate). about the upcoming shifts for the church’s ministry to the the gift of knowledge, maybe they’re just geeks, but whatever As a volunteer myself, I can say that Pastor Dick McKinley small-fries. The majority of the changes for this fall quarter the case, it’s the responsibility of the church to feed them as and his team have done an amazing job of accommodating are going to appear in the midweek service, the greatest best we can. for, teaching, and loving our kids. Between the ever-adapt- of these being the program’s new name. Yes, that’s right, Even with these new structures in place, however, it’s ing structure and, more importantly, the powerful love of the Jericho Junction will be no more; in its place, October will impossible to adequately serve our miniature congregants Holy Spirit, this ministry will persist in supplementing Pastor see the initiation of Kid’s Kore (the little-folk equivalent of the without servants. As Dave put it, the drum for help in the Dad and Pastor Mom as long as there are hands and feet to midweek Capstone CORE classes for adults). Children’s Ministry is constantly being beat, but it’s an impor- fuel it. Why the change? Dave explained to me that one of the tant tune; the fact that we have more kids than we have adults shortcomings of the Jericho Junction program was its skits; to love on them is just reality. Apparently, in recent weeks at they were often overly focused on work-centered legalism at Shoreline, Dave has actually had to turn parents and their the expense of grace and faith-based righteousness. Though children away because there was not enough help to take MARS HILL CALENDAR/CALEND JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC MHC | ballarballard MHC | west seattle MHC | shoreline and more .