Posts with the category “events”

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

I still remember loading the van to head to the airport for my first international mission trip to Ukraine over 24 years ago. The anticipation and excitement mixed with apprehension and fear of the unknown were palpable among the entire team of 20 moms and dads, pastors and youth. Reading from my journal I remember the prayer that began with that trip and echoes still in my heart every time I step...  Read More

On November 18th, 2023 you came together with other friends, neighbors, classmates, teammates, co-workers, businesses, faith communities, and community organizations to pack and deliver 1,500 Thanksgiving meals to our local communities. A few key stats we can celebrate together:The meals we packed fed over 8,000 people on Thanksgiving.429 volunteers went out on 171 delivery routes to hand deliver ...  Read More

Saturday, August 26th 1:10 pm game vs. the Kansas City Royals.Open Life has reserved three rows, which is 56 tickets, on the main level for the Faith & Family Day game at T-Mobile Park. This Spring I (Thad) was in a conversation with one of our families who has a middle school students who was experiencing the challenge to engage in church and truly be interested. It was a point of conversation mo...  Read More

In teams, we were able to split up 1750 pounds of bulk rice and oats into 830 small bags that will be available to clients of the Market during the month of May. While this was going on, we also had teams of people packing small packs of bulk spices so that families can make, “beautiful meals,” as Stacey says. It was once again a reminder that “many hands make light work.”  Read More