10 year anniversary service project #5 this Saturday

As most of you know.....a huge part of every suburb and town in our area is sports for our kids. Every day of almost every week has tons of kids playing sports in our area. Kids play, parents coach, parents cheer (sometimes inappropriately) and everyone has a good time. It is as American as Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chrysler ....I mean Fiat!

To have a well organized local town sports association it takes money and volunteers. Many times those are exactly the two things that many places are short on.

Enter...Team Church!

The Porter Ridge Athletic Association is having their Little League Opening Day fair this Saturday. This is a great day for kids to ride rides, play, eat and have fun. It is also a fundraiser for the association to help cover the cost of running such an organization. A few months ago we heard from some of our parents who live in that area that this would be a huge help to that community if Team Church would use this as one of our service projects. We agreed. Here is the info straight from our web site:

Porter Ridge Athletic Association Opening Day

Saturday, April 4 | 8:30am-11:00am

Team Church is partnering up with the Porter Ridge Athletic Association for "Opening Day". The PRAA will hold their baseball Opening Day on Saturday, April 4th. The event is at Hemby Bridge Elem School fields. Team Church volunteers will be helping with parking, selling baked goods, picking up trash, coordinating teams for the parade and photos and making sure all the kids and families have a great time! This is an easy, but important outreach to families in the Porter Ridge area and is one where you can participate in just one area or in several areas throughout the day. Be on the look out for sign-up information on Sunday mornings.

Most important though, is we need people to bake cookies, brownies, cupcakes, anything that is quick and easy to eat. The association will be selling these baked goods at the opening day. We need these goods delivered to the church by Friday noon.

If you can serve for 1-3 hours this Saturday, please contact Kathy Shephard at kathyshephard@gmail.com If you live in the Hemby Bridge/Porter Ridge area this is your backyard. We would love to have you "represent" and serve those who will recognize you! If your kids play in this association....this is a no brainer.

Here is the link to our website 10 year anniversary.




“You have also heard that our ancestors were told, ‘You must not break your vows; you must carry out the vows you make to the Lord.’But I say, do not make any vows! Do not say, ‘By heaven!’ because heaven is God’s throne. And do not say, ‘By the earth!’ because the earth is his footstool. And do not say, ‘By Jerusalem!’ for Jerusalem is the city of the great King. Do not even say, ‘By my head!’ for you can’t turn one hair white or black. Just say a simple, ‘Yes, I will,’ or ‘No, I won’t.’ Anything beyond this is from the evil one.

Matthew 5:33-37