:.being downtown.:
(a weekly e-letter to sunnyside wesleyan church’s downtown congregation)
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“In him we live and move and have our being.”
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I am excited about life at Sunnyside. This winter semester we have five small group leaders from the DT site who are serving by leading a small group. As well across the Sunnyside community there are a number of small groups that you could be involved with.
I am also excited about the opportunity we have through the Sunnyside downtown community to share the gospel. God has brought us together and is sending us out. Sunday we will be singing a song called “Hope of the Nations.” As the title implies, it speaks about how Jesus is the hope of the nations. For such a time as this God has brought us together to proclaim and live out this message.
This Sunday we will be reflecting on Encountering a Wise God. Who could we invite this Sunday or in the Sundays ahead to come and see this hope of the nations. I see a day when we are not roping off the top section of the auditorium. I see a day when the auditorium is 70% full of people.
Take a look at a couple of seats over. There is your neighbor who has brought another neighbor. Look on the left of side you, there is so and so who sits beside you in class. Look down on the right your co-worker, sneaked in. Can you see the person who has just taken their first step in trusting Jesus? You are not even sure if you know the names of all those new faces serving on the music team. What was the ushers name again, he has been coming for five months now. Then there was the new faces of the greeters, smiling when I came.
After the service, look at the people some laughing, a few praying with another, many catching up. A whole new group of people you don’t even know who are faithfully serving by cleaning up. Can you see it, I can.
Matthew 13:31-32closeMatthew 13:31-32 The Mustard Seed and the Leaven 31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” (ESV) closeMatthew 13:31-32closeMatthew 13:31-32 The Mustard Seed and the Leaven 31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” (ESV) The Mustard Seed and the Leaven 31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.” (ESV) “The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.”
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Links
Miscellaneous Information
Sunnyside Wesleyan Church is a multi-site church: one church in two locations. For more information, please visit our website: www.sunnysidechurch.ca.
The Downtown location is at the Alumni Auditorium in the Jock Turcot University Centre on the University of Ottawa campus. The service time is Sunday at 10 a.m. (Map)
The Grosvenor location is at 58 Grosvenor Ave. The summer service time is 10 a.m. (Map)
Services in both locations usually last about 75 minutes.
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You may email Joel Windle (Downtown Worship Pastor) at joel.windle@sunnysidechurch.ca.
Announcements
The Nominating Committee meets on February 8th at 7pm in the Grosvenor Site Basement
Fantastic Family Fun Night – Feb. 10th 7pm @ the MET. Contact Miranda Valentini
Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner: February 21st @6pm in the Grosvenor Site Basement
Baptism Group – Feb. 26th. Contact Pastor Matthew Laker
Family Day @ Silver Lake – Feb. 20th. Contact Doug Tatton: doug@slwc.ca
Small Group Brochures are out! Please pick one up this Sunday!
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Pastor Matthew Laker
Site Pastor @ SunnySide Weslyean Church (Downtown site)
www.matthewlaker.blogspot.com
613-282-4339
