Greetings Engage Community and Friends beyond,
On October 30th Engage Church began a ‘Season of Thanks’. This Sunday (Nov. 20th) our ‘Season of Thanks’ will culminate in our Celebration of Thanks worship gathering.
We live in a world that tells us our main pursuit in life is our happiness. However, if this is our main goal it simply seems like most of life ends up standing in our way. How many of us constantly fight discontentment in the mundane guts and routines of everyday life? We believe the message of Jesus calls us to something so much better. The gospel of Jesus beckons us to live lives full of contentment and delight even right in the middle of life’s smallest inconveniences and deepest tragedies. As a community being formed around Jesus we are putting a stake in the ground and protesting the insatiable discontentment, negativity, and anxieties we deal with on a daily basis by seeking to be grateful.
On Sunday Nov. 20th we will declare our desire to live our lives filled up with thankfulness. Together with our Creator we invite contentment, generosity, thankfulness. We pause to offer praise for each other and for the gifts of life quietly tucked away into the mundane routines of life. We celebrate a God who comes to us and shows us a better way to fill our deepest longings and cravings for the things that really last.
Our hope is to head into this holiday season filled up, content, and brimming with generosity. What if we determined not to get lured into the consumerist vortex that tells us we simply don’t have enough of what we crave and need—we need more!
Join us
Please join us for this gathering as we hear stories of thanks, read God’s story in Scripture, sing songs of thanks, and retell a better story of what life is meant to be. Engage is an open community for all people and a safe welcoming place for all people to experience the life of Jesus without fear of judgment or rejection. Let’s pack out the ‘living room’ with our friends and invite those we value into a better story of life itself.
Stay for lunch
We invite you to stay after for a thanksgiving meal together. If you plan on staying for lunch please bring a dish to share for you and your family or tribe. Engage will provide drinks, plates, and tableware.
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