Posts with the category “connect”

March Madness is here Open Life’s annual NCAA Bracket Challenge is back, inviting Open Lifers to fill out both Men’s and Women’s tournament brackets for major bragging rights. Join the fun by filling out your bracket on ESPN before the tournaments tip off—and see if you can claim this year’s victory.  Read More

People are asking how to find a church who are hanging on by a thread, and your story could be the one that impacts their decision to find their way to Open Life.   Read More

Graduation parties, vacations, long weekends, gardening, hiking, BBQs... it's beginning to smell like summer. The summer is a season where it's tempting to DISCONNECT. Often, we can let aspirations of rest and relaxation distract us from remaining rooted within our church community causing us to unknowingly drift away from others. We can still take time to rest, getaway, and go on vacation, while ...  Read More

This September, we are kicking off our 2024-2025 ministry year with the theme: Captivated—Cultivating an Intimate Relationship with God! What captivates us attracts and holds our attention. To be captivated by God is to be drawn into knowing God—not only with an intellectual understanding of his attributes, but with a coming alive to God through surrender to Jesus’ love, knowing in an experiential...  Read More

Dallas Willard wrote in his book, The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship, “The greatest issue facing the world today … is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into eve...  Read More

Kids Connect On Thursday mornings at Starbucks in winter of 2022-23, a few Open Life moms connected over coffee and conversation about a broad range of topics from parenting and marriage to sabbath and prayer. It was one moment during a hectic week where they could relax with a cup of coffee and a few friends and be reminded of how it feels to be one’s self before resuming the demanding rhythm of ...  Read More