Mark Your Calendar
- Mar 1 – Men’s Breakfast 8:30-9:30 in the gym
- Mar 2 – Church Fellowship Lunch
- Apr 5 – Church Workday (and breakfast)
- Apr 19 – Spring Fling Outreach
- Jun 9-13 – Creative Arts Camp
- October 17-18 – Marriage Retreat
Update on Kevin
Kevin is improving and they are beginning the process today for waking him up. It may take several days to wean him off of the sedatives and make sure his lungs respond properly. Please continue praying for him and the family.
Church Fellowship Lunch
Plan to stay for lunch on March 2nd following the morning worship service. This is a great opportunity to invite family and friends — come for church and stay for lunch.
Breakfast and Beautification
Start your day with a warm breakfast and a chance to get ready for our Spring Fling Outreach! On April 5th, we’ll gather for a shared meal and then spend a few hours working together to prepare our campus for Spring and Easter.
This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with others as we beautify our space for the many visitors we’re blessed to welcome during this season. Everyone—men, women, and children—is invited to join in. Whether it’s landscaping or tidying up, your helping hands will make a difference.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Spring Fling Outreach
Saturday, April 19th, 11 am – 2 pm: We will have food, inflatables, games, and candy! BUT we will need YOU to help staff those games and hand out those hotdogs! Please plan to join us for a few hours to show the love of Christ and invite families to our Easter service.
Creative Arts Camp
Thank you to everyone who has signed up for the creative arts camp for June! This is our first summer doing this, so we will be trying to plan ahead. We will have an info/Q&A meeting in a few weeks. If anyone is still interested in getting more information but hasn’t signed up yet, please check out the sign-up sheet in the church lobby.
Lord’s Supper Helper
We are looking for someone to help prepare the elements for the Lord’s Supper for the weeks that we celebrate. It takes about 10 minutes before Adult Bible Study or before the service. The task involves pouring the juice and preparing the crackers, then setting them up on the communion table at the front of the auditorium. This is needed every six weeks. If you are willing to help, please let one of the deacons know.
Nursery Schedule
2/23 – Tim & Adria Singh
3/2 – Sarah Wiggs, Tara Solomon
Constitution Updates
Heads up! The deacons have suggested some updates to the first section of our church constitution, and we’d love for you to check them out. Copies are available in the lobby—feel free to grab one and take a look as we prepare for the big update later this year.
From the Desk of Pastor Tom
Our culture is searching for appropriate masculinity but it is stuck wrestling with terrible extremes. I read a good article recently that addresses this topic. This whole article is well worth reading, but here is a short snippet to give you a peek. Let’s pray together that the Lord would help us grow to be Godly Men and raise our boys to serve and lead like Jesus Christ because Jesus has transformed our hearts.
What is written below is an excerpt from this article (https://mereorthodoxy.com/defining-healthy-masculinity).
We don’t need to reinvent masculinity. We don’t need a new Andrew Tate, nor do we need to erase masculinity altogether. What we need is a return to cruciform masculinity—a strength that serves, a power that protects, and a leadership that sacrifices.
Modern culture paints masculinity in extremes. On one side, masculinity is toxic—something to be suppressed, softened, or erased. On the other, masculinity is brutal, aggressive, and dominant—something to be weaponized. The result? A generation of men is confused about what they’re supposed to be.
But Jesus offers a different vision. He was neither passive nor oppressive. He was fierce yet gentle, authoritative yet humble. He protected the weak, challenged corruption, and served the outcast. His strength was not wielded for his own gain but for the good of others. And he ultimately laid down his life—not out of weakness, but out of the greatest strength of all: the strength to love sacrificially.
In fact, much of our concept of heroism in the West has been shaped by Christ. The hero’s journey—where strength is used not for domination but for service—is not only from Hollywood or mythology. It was embodied most fully in Christ, who redefined greatness as laying down one’s life for a friend. This is why Perry and Weiss’ longing for “heroic” masculinity is truly a longing for cruciform masculinity—because true heroism has always been about sacrifice, and there is no greater sacrifice than the cross.
If we want to revive heroic masculinity, we don’t need more self-proclaimed alpha males—we need more men shaped by Christ.
