Family Ministry Newsletter: September 25th, 2024
This newsletter contains upcoming information pertaining to all things family ministry. Here, you will find announcements, dates, devotional thoughts, and more that, I pray, will be beneficial to you, your household, and our local church. May God be chief as we seek to faithfully shepherd our homes!
Upcoming Dates and Events
October 4th, 2024 - First Friday
Students will meet for their monthly gathering on October 4th, at 6:30PM. We will eat, fellowship, and worship the living God as we consider Jonah 3!
October 12th, 2024 - Bottom View Farm Family Day
Families are encouraged to visit Bottom View Farm on Saturday, October 12th, for a time of family fun! Be on the lookout for more information.
Weekly Song and Resource
This week, we are singing, “O Great God.” It is a wonderful hymn to sing throughout the house in preparation for corporate worship on Sunday: https://youtu.be/gOPbanJKWE8?si=CWC2NalWxeYAAiEi
Check out this brief article from Dr. Tom Ascol, titled “Five Benefits of Regular Family Worship” - https://founders.org/articles/five-benefits-of-regular-family-worship/
Quote of the Week
“Let the Christian family be the most cheerful household anywhere, and if I might venture on the advice, let me say, never make Sunday doleful and sad. Some people do. Why, I think Sunday should be to the household the bright day of the week—the day when father is at home—the day when the mother is not at work—the day when John comes home to spend a few hours—the day when they all go to the house of God and sing —
‘I have been there, and still would go,
’Tis like a little heaven below.’
Oh! do make your households to be like flower gardens, plant no thorns, and root out all ill weeds of discontent. Depend upon it, household happiness is a great means of promoting household holiness.”
- Charles Spurgeon, “A Pastoral Visit” (delivered on July 30th, 1908)