The Dash & The POD

Yesterday was another great day at CSF. Our Expand Adventure is off to a wonderful start. Many of you commented that you enjoyed the scope of the message and that you were challenged to really make a difference in your one and only life. As I stated yesterday, we don't choose when we are going to be born, to whom we will be born and in what setting. For the most part, we should never choose when we are going to do die. (that is called suicide) The only aspect of our life that we have a choice over is the life we live from birth until we die. We called that the DASH....most tombstones read something like: May 1905 - January 1980. The "dash" that is between those two dates represents our life. This is the only aspect that we can control what we choose to do with our life.

What are you doing with your Dash?

Yesterday, you responded well to our Expand Clothing Drive. By weeks end we will have filled up the portable POD with clean, lightly used clothes. Then, on Friday night, our Volunteers will unload at Walter Bickett Elementary School. The clothes will be placed on tables in their gym and over 700 kids and their families will be able to take all they want for FREE! Great job Expanding our Influence.

Back to the DASH. This coming Wednesday night we will have our Fellowship Service. We will have communion, baptism and then we will have a great time of worship and prayer for our Expand Adventure. Wednesday night we will all join together..hand in hand...and circle our current building. We link our lives together and PRAY! We will link our lives together and dream! We will link our lives together and do more as a Fellowship than we could ever do alone.

Be here Wednesday for this awesome night. Our Fellowship Services are always a great time! The Baptisms are a sight to behold.

Today's Bible Reading:

We have started Matthew today. If you like Jesus stories...you will love this book of the Bible. Chapter one speaks directly to my teaching on the DASH....the book starts with listing people who lived and then died. A genealogy. When your name is listed one day in the paper as having lived and now dead....what will people say about the influence you made? "People will talk about you when you are gone. You decided now while you are here what they will say."