We’d love for you to join us! Men this will be a great time of fellowship, encouragement, and prayer.
Email men {at} eaglelifechurch.org if you can attend.
Philippines Typhoon Haiyan Response
From the Convoy of Hope website:
Convoy of Hope teams continue to distribute immediate relief to families in remote areas of the Philippines. Our teams in the field are reporting back that we are reaching many of the hardest hit areas with food and supplies. In addition to locally purchased food, water filtration units and other disaster relief supplies, we have distributed 566,182 meals to families reeling from Typhoon Haiyan.
Some of the areas recently supplied include: Iloilo, Panay, Concepcion, Danao Danao Island, Talisay Island, Tapas, Jamindan, Daanbantayan, Bantayan Island, Carnaza Island, Mambusao, Altvas, Coron, Roxas City, Leutod Leutod, Bogo City, San Remegio, Sitio Leonor, Tagumpay, Sitio Pali, Barangay 6, Sitio Malbato and Barangay Bintuan.
Your generous offering on November 24, has been sent to Convoy of Hope. Thank your for continuing to keep the relief teams, the Filipino Church, and our missionaries in prayer.
If you haven’t already taken the opportunity to give, please send a check to Eagle LifeChurch, place it in the giving bag Sunday, or give directly to Convoy of Hope. You can be sure that your gift will go to those most in need.
One Day to Feed the World
Remember the Poor
We take the opportunity every year to open our hearts of compassion and give generously to Remember the Poor on the last Sunday of November.
This year we will be bringing canned foods for Eagle Food Bank, Christmas shoe boxes for Native American Ministries, and money for Convoy of Hope.
ONE DAY to Feed the World is Convoy of Hope’s annual campaign to transform the everyday lives of kids around the world.
Playing, good times with friends, learning, and dreaming big dreams are the hallmarks of a great childhood — nutritious food fuels such childhoods. Our desire is to see kids lives transformed as we promote healthy children, and community, sustainability and development.
It’s simple — Work ONE DAY, give ONE DAY’S wage to help provide food, clean water and other life-giving supplies.
How to Give?
- Bring your canned food to Eagle LifeChurch on Sunday or during office hours Tuesday & Thursday 10am-5pm, any time during the month of November.
- Bring a Christmas shoe box, wrapped and ready (instructions here), to Eagle LifeChurch anytime during the month of November. Please put $5 per box, for shipping, in offering envelope.
- Bring your check or cash to worship service, Sunday, November 24, and see how your small gift of one day can change everyday for a starving child.
- You can also give online, by making Eagle LifeChurch a vendor on your bank Bill Pay System, account number One Day.
Shift | Into A Higher Gear
One year from now, our oldest daughter, Naomi, will be eligible for her driver’s training permit. I’m not sure how to prepare for that moment.
I thought I’d start with teaching her what I do when I drive. So recently, I’ve been talking out loud through all the decisions I make while driving in our five-speed Kia Spectra.
One of the lessons we’ve been talking about is knowing when to shift. You can hear it as the engine roars. You can see it as the landscape passes by. As the car is accelerating, it’s important that you are ready, at just the right moment, to shift into a higher gear. If you shift early you lose momentum and if you shift too late you could blow the engine and come to a stop.
Eagle LifeChurch has begun to accelerate. There is a freshness of Spirit, a newness of joy, and a growing sense of life and light that is present in our gatherings. You can see it in our Children’s Ministry. You can hear it in our worship. We are pulling away from the place of rest and moving forward.
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the dessert. – Isaiah 43:19
Just like in our five-speed Spectra, if you aren’t prepared for the shift, you might get jerked around in the car. I want the ride to be comfortable, but it isn’t always easy.
I’m asking you to pray with me for our shift into a higher gear. If we shift too early we’ll lose momentum, if we shift too late we could blow the engine.
Pray that God will give us wisdom on how to develop, how to spend resources, and when and what to shift as we accelerate. Pray that God will unite us in mission and strategy as we mature. We need children’s workers, we need hospitality team members, we need LifeGroup leaders, we need youth workers, we will need a board member this winter, and there are other needs that will come up that we may not anticipate.
Please pray that God will give us workers, miracles, healing, and strength. Pray that God will build and accelerate His church, so that we do not labor in vain.
Thank you for joining me in prayer.
Trusting God for a Higher Gear!
Pastor Brad Murphy