Happy Birthday to Us!

September 5, 2018

Birthdays are a time for celebrating with family, friends and cake! Birthdays are also a time for reflecting on the year (and years) gone by and dreaming for the year (and years) to come. I have a birthday coming up and I hope to celebrate with family, friends and cake! I’m also sure that I will spend some time reflecting on the past and thinking ahead to the future. Aldersgate Church just celebrated its 33rd birthday. So as it goes, there is a time of celebration and a time for reflection.

Aldersgate was birthed with a vision to be “different.” Part of that vision is a heart to be focused more on being outside the walls of the church rather than being inside the walls of the church. Aldersgate has always had a heart for outreach and missions and that has played out in different ways throughout the history of the church. Our church budget has consistently reflected a heart for giving to missions. We have relentlessly encouraged you to find your mission field and serve it passionately.

But what’s next? Where is God calling us? What does the future of outreach and missions look like at Aldersgate Church?

I am inviting you to an important event at Aldersgate. The entire church is invited to join together for an Activate Conference on Saturday, October 6th from 8:30 am to 2:00 pm. This workshop will lay the foundation for a greater level of personal involvement in outreach and missions for the whole church. The conference will cast the vision for outreach and missions in our church as well as discuss practical strategies that we will move forward with over the next few years.

I believe that the upcoming Activate Conference will reform our approach to outreach and missions. I believe that it is God’s will for us to reach out to people with the Good News of Jesus Christ in our neighborhood, our city, our nation, and in the rest of the world. I am going to attend, the staff is going to attend, our church leaders and mission team members are planning to attend, and I invite each one of you who have an interest in reaching out with the Good News to come and join us!

It would be a real help in planning if you would please sign up in advance and let us know you are attending. You can do so here.

Hope to see you there!

Ryan Smallwood

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