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What a great Sunday it was celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus with you last week! So many new faces, some powerful worship of a worthy King, kids in their cute Easter outfits, Egg hunts and don’t forget the donuts. God truly did some amazing things this past week and I am excited to be serving Him as an awake minister of His gospel message. How about you?
Wrapping up our series on prayer and launching our series about celebrating couldn’t happen at a more perfect time. Easter is the celebrating of the most important day in the history of the world. It was so exciting to join with the 564 people who came for worship on Sunday. We will continue celebrating over the next 7 weeks. We have a church social next Sunday that we like to call Celebration Sunday. Our goal is to make this a Sunday that we celebrate at least once a year. It is a time to participate in baptisms, baby dedications, voting on elders and church projects, and taking a moment to remember the blessing it is to serve such an amazing Savior. We have an Ebenezer Wall at the church where we write down key moments in our spiritual walks that we don’t want to forget. Moments like the day of our salvation, the day of our baptism, the dedication of our kids or the day of our healing or recovery. We are bad at rejoicing because we are bad at remembering. After the second service we will fellowship together and the church is providing hamburgers and hotdogs to help us celebrate. Make sure you are there so you don’t miss out. Celebration will not end next Sunday as the series will go on for a few more weeks covering topics of celebration like Salvation, Healing, Moms (Mother’s Day), Recovery, the greatness of God, Rest and Peace, and the fact that God is still calling people to be ministers of His gospel message. Who will you invite to celebrate with you? Things worth celebrating are meant to be celebrated with others. Be intentional to invite someone to celebrate with you. -Pastor Paul The Senior Parking Expansion is completed and many broken areas of our existing parking lot have been repaired. We are hoping that next week our parking lot will be resealed and striped. This new space added 15 much needed parking spots on the same level as our sanctuary. What a great way to bless and look after our Seniors.
Note: Please leave these new closer spots for our Senior Saints on Sunday mornings. This will allow us to leave the handicap spaces for those in wheel chairs and those who struggle to walk. Other projects that are underway are our new church sign, the fencing for around the park area has been ordered and the solar will begin after our church vote (if approved) on April 24th. Thanks to all of those who give faithfully to this church so that we can take on projects and improvements. -Pastor Paul Eric SchlangeFamily Info: I've been married almost 23 years to my wife Monica. We have three splendid children: Noah (15), and Bella and her husband Tyler Vanderwall. How long have you lived in Lake County? All my life, really, and the same is basically true for Monica. My parents moved here when I was 10 days old, and I only left for college. I love it here! What do you do for work? I work for myself, running two different websites/online communities that I built up over the years. The first is Banjo Hangout, which is basically a social network for banjo players. The second is Zwift Insider, which is a blog covering information on Zwift, a "computer game" for cyclists riding indoors. Banjos and bikes - that's what I do. And I love it! Places you and your family serve? In terms of regular ministry at Grace, I oversee Sunday worship teams, helping plan the teams and also make the music. Monica and I also host a small group at our home on Sunday nights, and put together Grace's weekly email newsletter. We're also part of the Sunday morning prayer team, and Monica is one of the Sunday service hosts. Noah serves in Awana and VBS. Favorite verse/passage of scripture? There are so many! Psalm 150 is a long-time favorite... I wouldn't be much of a worship leader if it wasn't. But the last several verses of Ephesians 3 also speak to me regularly. I love the thought that He is "able to do far beyond all that we ask or think." I need to be reminded of this. Often! How long have you been a believer? My mother led me in a prayer of salvation when I was just three years old, after we came home from seeing my older brother Steve get baptized. Of course, my walk of faith has had many ups, downs, and learning experiences since then! But He's always been by my side. Lars EwingFamily Info: This June Heather and I will celebrate 20 years. Kids: Peyton (18), Kyle (16), Nolan (14), Levi (13), Brooke (10) How long have you lived in Lake County? I was born and raised in Lake County. Moved back with my family in 2008 and have lived here since. What do you do for work? Public Services Director for Lake County Places you and your family serve? AWANA, meal ministry, VBS, toddler room, Sunday service slidedeck, youth sports coach/umpire/referee Favorite verse/passage of scripture? Psalm 51 How long have you been a believer? I have believed my entire life. I took the step from basic belief to a saving faith 22 years ago. While our little ones will be in Sunday School or Jr. Church this Easter learning about the resurrection of Jesus, we're mixing in some fun between services. So please join in the frivolity up at our playground. Our coffee and goodies will be served there and will give you a great view of all the areas the kiddos will be searching for Easter Eggs. So if you're coming for the second service, this is a day you don't want to be late! About 10:15, we'll start the hunt, with sectioned-off areas for toddlers - 4 years of age, K-1st grade, and 2nd-3rd grade. It will be a timed hunt with our Egg Referees in place to run smoothly. But wait! We didn't forget about the 4th-6th graders; you're on clean up. Once the little ones have found all they can during their time, we will unleash you into the wild to uncover what may be left! See you there.
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