Post Unbinding Your Heart Church Leader Planning Retreat

Our church leaders will be participating in a post Unbinding Your Heart church leader planning retreat tomorrow at our Crossroads facility.  The purpose of the retreat is two-fold; to pray together/listen for God's voice & share where we feel God is leading us as a church.  The retreat includes our Church Council, our ministry staff, and our Unbinding Your Heart facilitators.

The book, Unbinding Your Heart was our congregation's focus during this past season of Lent which involved over 40 small group facilitators and 270 small group participants.  We heard several testimonies of faith from different people during Sunday worship throughout our six week journey.

The two key elements of Unbinding Your Heart are prayer and faith sharing.  We constantly asked ourselves where God was present and why God and the church mean so much to us.  By asking these important questions on a daily basis, we become more intentional and willing to invite others into the life of our church.

Since prayer is a key part of our Unbinding Your Heart spiritual journey, I invite us to keep tomorrow's planning retreat in our thoughts and prayers.  The prayer below is one that we have been encouraged to pray for the past year.  It's a good one!

Dear God, thank you for First United Methodist Church.  Strengthen us through the power of the Holy Spirit to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world through radical hospitality, passionate worship, intentional faith development, risk-taking mission, and extravagant generosity.  In Jesus’ name we pray.  Amen.