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The Missions Committee would like to invite you to a BBQ for Alex Goldsmith, a URC missionary serving urban youth of Jersey City, New Jersey with New City Kids. The BBQ will be held immediately following the Evening Worship Service on June 30th at Patriarche Park, East Lansing. Burgers, Brats, Hotdogs, Chips, Watermelon and Drinks will be provided.

We hope you will join us in learning about New City Kids (and some pretty exiting Michigan developments) and encouraging 30 bicyclists who are raising support for the NCK ministry by cycling from Jersey City to Grand Rapids! Contact Nick Setterington or Kim Dickinson/Lukins with any questions. and please RSVP to Kim Dickinson/Lukins.

Join us this year as Sea Explorers, where we will be anchored in God’s Word and following the famous fleeing prophet Jonah, tracing his roundabout route to repentance, and discovering life-changing truths about the Savior he points to. Sign up to help and register your children using the links below.

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Join us TUESDAYS, June 4 and June 18 in Morrill Hall room 410 from 12:00-1:00 pm. We will meet for prayer and discussion of Chapter 4 from “A Grander Story”. For more information or any questions email Kevin Phipps.

Living out your faith and sharing it with those around you are challenges we all face. SCF would like to invite everyone to come as we seek to think through together how we can better shine forth as lights in the world (Philippians 2:15b). Come to hear from others at URC about how they are seeking to live outward in their daily lives and join in discussing what this might look like for each of us. Thursday nights at 7:30 pm, June 6-August 1 in the Chapel.

URC’s Summer of Service is here! Consider participating in these Give/Serve opportunities:

URC Donut Brunch Ministry Fair, June 2. Join us in the Fellowship Hall following the service for donuts, fellowship and the opportunity to learn more about ministries of URC.

On-Goal Soccer, July 8-14. URC will be hosting On-Goal Soccer camp, we will be providing housing for the coaches and will need volunteers to help provide lunches during this outreach and hospitality opportunity.

VBS Karenni, July 15 – 19. The Karenni people fled political persecution in Burma and began to arrive in the Lansing area around 2009. Their children love attending Backyard VBS. Craft and snack leaders as well as van drivers and sponsors are needed.

Bible Club Deerpath Apartments, August 5 – 9. An evening outreach focused on serving and sharing the Good News with the kids and families of Deerpath Apartments. Volunteers and sponsors are needed.

McDonald Middle School Teacher Outreach, August. Donate items for gift bags to welcome back the teachers at MMS where Dave Hinkley is currently facilitating a lunch hour Bible study.

Visit us at the Diaconate Give/Serve table for more information.

And let our people engage in good deeds, to meet pressing needs, that they may not be unfruitful. Titus 3:14

A baptism service will be held Sunday, July 7. If you would like to have your child baptized, please fill out the form found here.

Join us from 12:15-1:00 pm on Friday, May 10 for the next discussion from “A Grander Story”. Additional details available soon. Contact Kevin Phipps with questions.

Our DIG students are looking for opportunities to raise money for their mission trip to Chattanooga by doing outdoor work for you this spring. Please contact Dave Hinkley if you are interested in providing projects for them.

A baptism service will be held Sunday, May 5. If you would like to have your child baptized, please fill out the form found here.

We are looking for extra help with our ministry to preschoolers! Our goal is that each volunteer would only need to serve one week during the summer months. We need 160 people to serve throughout the summer to make this happen! Please contact Steph Atchinson if you can help out with at least one Sunday this summer and she will contact you in the coming weeks to get you scheduled.