Friends, 

I hope you all are looking forward to the upcoming holiday weekend! We will be wishing many of you safe travels as you spend time with family and friends. I always like to take a special moment on the 4th of July to give thanks for the gift of freedom that allows us to gather for worship each week-- it is truly a blessing that many people around the world do not enjoy.

For those of you who will be worshiping here at Southminster on Sunday I am looking forward to continuing our summer series on God and Creation!

Peace

Caitlin Deyerle

Friends, 

This Sunday evening at 6pm all of our volunteers from Southminster with gather with the day camp staff from Camp Hanover to kick off our 2016 Camp Hanover Day Camp! 

Thank you to all of the volunteers who have signed up to bring lunches, coordinate logistics and represent the church! For those of you who are not able to be here during the week there is still a very important thing you can do to make this week a sucess: pray. 

Please pray for our volunteers, the Camp Hanover Staff, the kids who will attend, and for their families. We see Day Camp as an opportunity to reach out to our neighbors and friends and invite them and their children to share a week of fun and Christian fellowship. So please pray that God's Spirit would be at work in their lives, making this week a special time for all involved!

Peace

Caitlin Deyerle

Friends, 

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field." Matthew 13:31

Have you seen our new vegetable garden? A great team of volunteers planted it during our community festival in April (click here for the before pictures) and now almost 6 weeks later our plants have really grown! We hope that our garden experiment will yield some herbs and vegetables that we can share with one another and maybe even our food closet families. Our little garden is a great reminder to me this week that everything great starts small, but a little growth every day can add up to big things! 

Peace

Caitlin Deyerle

Friends, 

This Sunday marks the first Sunday of our Summer Worship schedule. If you love our 11:00 AM worship-- not to worry, nothing about that service will change! If you are looking for something different for the summer, come and check our our chapel in the woods at 8:45 AM. Casual dress is encouraged. You can bring a blanket to sit on the wooden benches or even bring your favorite camp chair!

Several of our adult Sunday School class offerings continue throughout the summer, but our youth and children's classes will be taking summer break. Youth, children, parents, and members of all ages are invited to join us for coffee on the play ground during the Sunday School hour-- we will even have an inter-generational art project to help express your creative side! 

Happy Summer!

Caitlin Deyerle