Our Last Gathering, The Ridge, and New Churches

Last post we talked about Ridge Church's commitment to Serving Others and missions. We are committed to supporting missions with both our time and our funds. As a part of that commitment, we give 5% of every dollar that we receive in our offerings on Sunday to missions activities. Serving Others is one of our six core values, and we mean it when we say that!

(On a somewhat irrelevant side note, when you come to our gathering tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. at Marli's in Fountain City, you'll notice we have a new "offering basket." It's made of banana leaves and it's pretty cool... It must be cool cause I got it at Target. Fits right in with Marli's Caribbean theme! Haha.)

The Ridge is also strongly committed to church planting. New Churches is another of our Ridge Church values. It's also a core value of the Acts29 Network, to which we belong. As part of our commitment to planting churches, we give 10% of every dollar we receive in our "offering basket" to church planting.

The first church plant that The Ridge is supporting is Journey Church of the Highlands in Boone, NC. I have become excited about this church's work in Boone. It's an honor for us to send Journey Church a $400 check to support his church from our 2008 offerings.

We hope to have their pastor make a special guest appearance at one of our Sunday morning gatherings in March.

Core Values:

a) God: We rejoice in the reality of the Triune Infinite personal God.

b) Gospel: Transforms how we think and live before God and others as reconciled people of God.

c) Community: An authentic community of friends who are committed to Christ and one another.

d) Mission: We exist to bring God’s Redemptive message to our culture and the world.

e) Culture: We value displaying the truth of the Gospel in all aspects of culture by thinking and living to His glory in all things (art, vocation, family, society etc…)

I'm excited about what God has in store for both The Ridge and Journey Church of the Highlands! I'm also excited about our gathering tomorrow... There are new things every week (such as a sweet new offering basket). This week, you might just see a new sound system, too!

See you in the morning...