🗳️ Did You Vote?
We made it through the election! Please take a day or two to disconnect from the news and online content. It'll be better for your health!
💨 Go outside and get blasted by the super high winds. 😆
We have four items this week! (365 words; ~1.5 minute read time)
1. 🅰️ NEXT ALPHA COURSE GATHERING
Our next Alpha course session will be this Saturday from 10am-12pm at church! Come join the conversation surrounding what it means to have faith.
2. 🗳️ FECC MEMBERSHIP MEETING
If you are an FECC member, you have another opportunity to participate in an election! This Sunday at 2pm in the main Sanctuary and on Zoom, we have our annual FECC Membership Meeting where we will hear reports about the ministries from this past year and also vote to approve the 2025 budget and confirm the new church officers.
✉️ An online ballot has been mailed and emailed to all members. Please contact me if you have not received any notification.
3. ❤️ FELLOWSHIP THIS WEEK
Come be part of a fellowship group this week!
- 🍔 Phileo fellowship - Thursday night at 7:00pm at the Tan Residence.
- 🎓 College fellowship - Friday night at 7:30pm at church.
- 🤨 Name TBD fellowship - Saturday night at 6:30pm at the Tan Residence.
4. 📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK
I borrowed this book from the library after a review of the author's most recent book in Christianity Today. The author proposes the way for Christians to survive in a post-christian age and to counter the increasing slide of secularism is through adopting the rule of life offered by St. Benedict from the sixth century.
The message of this book is congruent with our recent series on the Sermon on the Mount and especially our last message on being salt and light. The Benedict Option says we need to live in our counter-cultural ways to model to the world the fulfilling life Christ offers. Our governments and political parties cannot deliver the kind of life and values only Jesus brings. The call is for a renewed commitment to living differently.
- 👉 "Instead of being seeker-friendly, we should be finder-friendly, offering those who come to us a new and different way of life." (p. 121) We are a place/people who live out the grace of God that stands in contrast to the drivenness of our society. This is what we offer people when they come!
Have a great week!
Len 'Is Looking for a Thanksgiving Service Testimony' Tan