This Weekend @ LSC

Just a few things as we head into the weekend:

1.  Thank you for canceling your vacations last week to be there last Sunday to hear me preach on “What Got Us Here Won’t Get us There.”  Unfortunately, I was sick and didn’t make it  BUT – I’m back for Sunday and will pick up where I intended to go last week.

2.  Thank you to the elders for stepping in and speaking from their heart last week in my absence.  They did a great job.  If you missed it – go to www.livingstones.cc and click on the “messages” tab to hear the message.

3.  The All-In Reception scheduled for last Sunday afternoon (and was canceled) is back on for THIS Sunday afternoon.  So, if you have become “All-In” at LSC over the past nine months and have not attended an ALL-IN reception – you are invited to do this Sunday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. (we’ll meet in the Rock Star Room).

4.  If you haven’t done so yet – we are putting together a new LSC Facebook page. This one allows us to do more than the old one (it is something with Facebook as they switched options from “group” pages to “organization” pages).  Anyhow…we plan on phasing out the old one.  But we would love not to lose the connection with so many that have joined the old group page.  To get into the new organization page you now have to “like” it (that is the Facebook language).  If you haven’t done so yet, click here and do it!!

5.  Don’t forget your school supplies for Monroe School!

School Supplies for Monroe School

Just a reminder that we are collecting school supplies for Monroe School!!!!  Very excited to bring over a butt-load of supplies (that means a lot) to the NEWLY REMODELED school.  In addition, we are also collecting socks, underwear, and lice kids.  So, if you haven’t done so yet – grap a slip or two from the bulletin board – go to Wal-Mart, Target, or wherever – fill your cart to overflowing – and bring the supplies back to the Living Stones Church!!!

Serving the Neighborhood

On Wednesday evening Jeff Gritton’s Men’s Growth Group went out to serve the neighborhood of the South Side.  The task…find an abandoned – overgrown – eye-sore – wreck of a house and with a dozen guys and one hour time…clean it up for the sake of the neighbors and our community.

They had a lot to choose from.  Needless to say, South Bend’s Code Enforcement office and staff are underfunded, understaffed, and overworked!  They settled on a house THREE doors down from Riley High School (which I think is crazy that the city would allow the dilapidation of neighborhood that exists around Riley.  As a sidenote, that was the point of building a new Riley north of the old Riley.  It would improve the neighborhood.  It didn’t.  I would contend the first house you come across directly out of the front doors of Riley High School could be the worst code enforcement violating house in the city.  But I digress…).

Huge difference!!!  Right on dudes!

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