Summer's Coming!

How’s Your Summer Family Calendar Looking These Days?

Summer is finally here!  The sun and warmer breezes and longer days have arrived. Thanks be to God!  This is the time of year for us to appreciate the beauty and growth in God’s creation. 

Summer is also the time schedules change.  Children are home from school. They are involved in soccer or lacrosse or baseball or softball. Adults play in softball, volleyball, and golf leagues. My guess is that for most families summer is as busy as ever, only busy with a different set of activities.

Worship at Alleluia this summer continues with worship services at 9:00 and 10:30 a.m. I want to encourage and challenge you to keep worship a priority this summer. If you need to “go radical” and work with a coach on keeping your family free for church on Sundays. As a parent and father of a son and daughter involved in athletics in Maple Grove I know the turf and how difficult this can be, but you can do it.

As you know we show our priorities very clearly in the decisions we make in terms of how we utilize our time.  So, please keep your worship life alive and well along with your financial giving during these summer months.

I hear the word on the street every spring that summer is coming and worship attendance goes down and financial offerings go down.  Though Alleluia has trended downward slightly in the summer  Alleluia does not dip down like many other churches.

Together at Alleluia let’s shout down the word on the street for summer being a “down time” Let’s kick it up a notch here and continue to grow our attendance and offerings and building fund commitments.

Remember, our church operations continue through the summer with staff and facility needs as well as our giving outside our walls toward ELCA mission support.

For Jesus’ sake, we come together to worship and serve. See you in church this summer,

May your summer be filled with fun and joy as we follow Jesus together.

Peace,

Pastor Durk