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This year, the Christmas Offering will go towards the Malawi Reformation Network and The Lansing City Rescue Mission.

Malawi Reformation Network:
MRN is grateful for the continued support from URC. Confex and Mwai are meeting weekly on Sundays to study God’s word and fellowship with a few dozen people in Blantyre. MRN recently hired three interns who study with Confex, do door to door evangelism, and reach out to students at the various colleges in town. URC’s financial gifts will be used to support the internship program and develop reformed libraries for the pastors and interns to better equip them for the ministry. To learn more about MRN, visit www.reformationmalawi.org.

The City Rescue Mission of Lansing:
CRML was founded in 1911. It is the largest shelter in Michigan’s capital area and provides shelter to 140 women, children, and men every night and serves about 100,000 meals every year. City Rescue Mission is a Christian ministry which exists for the sole purpose of meeting physical and spiritual needs in our community. To learn more about the CRML and its current project called “The Outreach,” visit www.bearescuer.org.

We hope you will prayerfully consider giving to the Christmas offering to support these ministries. Please mark your envelopes as “Christmas Offering” and it will get to the right place.

For all who are new to URC, you are invited to stick around after the 10:00 am service on December 15 to get to know our pastors over a light meal. Fill out the form below to RSVP.

Women, ages 12 and up, are invited to this year’s Christmas Tea on Monday, December 9th at 7 p.m. Guest speaker and singer Deb Mantel will be speaking on “Prepare the Way.” Come enjoy dessert and fellowship with other women as we reflect on making Christ central in our hearts and homes this Christmas. Space is limited, register HERE!

URC’s Family Halloween party is Monday, October 28 from 6:30-8:00 pm in the Fellowhsip Hall. Bring your kids for carnival games and trick or treating around the church. Costumes are encouraged, and bring a bag of candy to share. Volunteers to help can email Steph Atchison.

Come and join us for a hearty breakfast on Saturday, October 26 from 8:00-9:30 am in the Fellowship Hall. This is a great opportunity to meet and get to know other guys from URC in a real easy going atmosphere. We ask that you bring a dish to pass, if you can. We always have extras, so bring a big appetite! If you would be willing to arrive at 7:00 and help cook, please contact Justin Kaake. No registration required.

Is the Lord calling you to the Mission Field? Is he calling you to be a faithful Sender? The answer to at least one of those questions is, Yes! Are you listening? GO/SEND luncheon, Sunday, October 20, 12:45-2:00 pm. This month’s focus is Cross Cultural Interaction and Ministry with Justin Osborn and other URC folks ministering cross culturally. Learn how to be effective and how you could get involved! Lunch and childcare provided. RSVP required by 10/18.

The Diaconate of URC would like to extend our gratitude toward everyone at URC who participated in Give+Serve 2019. A quick summary of our summer:

• Donut Brunch Ministry Fair – a fun event for the people of URC to learn more about service opportunities within our church. Reach out to a ministry director if you are interested in finding a way to serve!
• On Goal Soccer Camp – On Goal was attended by 65-70 students from around the city. They played soccer, learned new skills on the field, and had daily devotions discussing the gospel message.  Many players were members of other Bible churches in the area and grew in their knowledge of scripture, and a handful of kids said they would like to follow Christ for the first time!  We housed 16-18 coaches and provided them with 14 fellowship meals.
• Karenni VBS – URC partnered with the Hummel family’s backyard VBS for 50 Karenni kids who live in the Lansing area.  Activities included crafts, snacks, scripture memory, and teaching from several URC members and pastors. Your giving helped provide a fun filled and gospel focused week for these children.
• Deerpath VBS – a first time event to minister to the families and our neighbors over at Deerpath Apartments. Four URC adults and 10 DIG students led the VBS for 10-15 kids each evening.  The gospel message was presented and warmly received by our new friends. A homework club for kids has started as a follow up to the VBS program. Continue to pray that those who heard the message would come to know Christ as their Savior.
• MacDonald Middle School Cards – we ended up delivering around 100 “thank you” cards to the faculty and staff at MacDonald Middle School. Pray that this simple gesture would help build relationships within our community, lead people to visit URC, and that the Holy Spirit would work in their hearts.

Thank you for participating in Give+Serve 2019 this summer. Let us together as a body head into the fall and winter seasons with a heart focused on generosity and service towards others.

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. (Galatians 6:9-10)

We are pleased to announce that URC has acquired a 3.9 acre parcel of land at the corner of Timberlane and Burcham for the purpose of installing a new church sign at that intersection.  Watch this short video to find out additional information along with an opportunity you have to volunteer to help clean up some brush along the roadside of Burcham Drive.  Please consider coming to help on Saturday morning, September 21 from 9:00 – noon. Please sign-up below.

Pat Quinn will be teaching one counseling training class — Theology, Practice, and Counseling Issues, combining two classes. The class will meet Fridays from 4:00-6:00 pm beginning Friday October 4.

A brief description of the class:
Theology and Practice: Covers biblical counseling model and methods: e.g. understanding people and their issues, what’s most deeply wrong with us, how the gospel speaks to all of life, a biblical change process, and how we care for and help people change.
Issues: Covers specific counseling issues: e.g. helping hurting people, depression and anxiety, anger and conflict, gender and sexuality, grief and hope, guilt and shame.

This class is open to all and would be helpful for all those who counsel, disciple, mentor, lead growth groups, teach, and do evangelism. The class begins October 4 runs from October through May.

To sign up for this class, contact Pat Quinn by email at [email protected], phone (351-6810 ext 217), or in person.

You are invited to an informal time for women to get together and enjoy the fellowship of other women on Saturday, September 14 anytime between 10:00 am and noon. We will be meeting at BIGGBY Coffee (120 West Ottawa St., parking is free on Saturday).

The coffee will be offered at a discounted price, and the coffee shop will not be open to the public so we have it all to ourselves. Feel free to invite friends and neighbors to join us!