We invite your family to join our family for worship!

On Sunday mornings at 9:30am we gather together, kids and adults, to worship as families and as the larger church family. All kids age 3 and up stay and worship with their families, come up for a special Kids' Time, and get an activity bag of fun stuff for during the service. Nursery is available for our "Littles" age 2 and under, and there's a kid-friendly area in the Narthex, too. It is in our worship through Scripture, prayer, and praise, that we glorify God as we seek to to Know, Love, and Become Like Jesus Christ... together.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday!

Prepare Your Heart and Mind

Preparing for Worship - April 2, 2023

Mark Hoffman • March 30, 2023

As we gather once again this week to seek the Lord in worship, we recognize that this is not a hopeless search, for we know that He will be found in our midst! Psalm 63 expresses the heartfelt desire to seek after God, as well as the accompanying joy of discovering him in all of his power and glory and steadfast love.

It will be these words from Psalm 63:1-4 that will serve as our Call to Worship this week, pointing us to seek him together in worship as we sing Behold Him. Then Revelation 5:11-13 paints for us a picture of the worship in heaven, as we see all of creation ascribing blessing and honor and glory and might to the Lamb that was slain, our Savior Jesus Christ. We, also, will join together in this worship of the Lamb as we sing Wonderful Merciful Savior and The Wonderful Cross.

After our time of worship through Scripture and song, we will pray over our Giving and have a few brief Announcements, followed by a fun and engaging Kids’ Time for all of our young worshipers. (Kids, don’t forget to grab your activity bag!) Then, Drew Barnes will continue our sermon series, With His Wounds We Are Healed, with a message from Isaiah 53:7-9. We’ll respond to this picture of Christ as the sacrificial lamb by remembering his death through Communion and by singing in worship to our King Of Kings. To close our time together we’ll be dismissed with a parting word from the Scriptures in our closing Benediction.

Do you need prayer? Please let us know how we can be praying for you. You can drop a prayer request card in the giving box in the atrium, or send your prayer requests to: prayer@meadowsfamily.org.

Find an opportunity this week to prepare your heart and mind for worship by engaging with the Scripture and songs for the week, and asking God to use our time together to build up His church and glorify Himself. This week’s song playlist can be found on Spotify and YouTube. Everything you need to know about our Sunday worship services can be found on our website at meadowsfamily.org/sundays.

See you this Sunday!

Mark

This Week's Worship Playlist

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March 26, 2023

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What to Expect When You Join Us In-Person

When you come, please come in through the Main Entrance. That entrance has glass doors with a big WELCOME sign over them. If you are dropping off children newborn-two (Littles), you can enter our side entrance. Littles can be dropped off 10 minutes before the service begins.

What else can you expect...

Expect to be greeted warmly. Our welcome team will greet you with warm smiles. We hope you feel welcomed and cared for, especially as we emerge from a pandemic. Feel free to ask questions of our welcome team, or stop by the welcome center for more information about our church.

Expect to see a range of attire. From suits & dresses to jeans & tees, come dressed comfortably for you. While we come to worship God and believe He is worthy of our best, we also believe that he cares far more about our hearts than our clothes.

Expect children to be valued and cared for. We value children and want them to feel that they're a part of our family. During our 9:30 service, our team of volunteers help our children know, love and become like Jesus Christ. The last week of each month, we have our Family Fellowship Sunday. For that week, we keep the kids in our service and add kid-friendly elements that help us all connect as the family of God.

Expect to sing. God’s people have always been singing people, and songs are a fantastic way to express our thoughts and feelings about God and to God. Each week we sing a mix of songs from hymns of the church to modern worship songs.

Expect to pray. Prayer is simply talking to God. We believe God delights to hear us talking with Him and that He works through our prayers. Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Most of the time, someone will be leading prayer from the front, but there are times, especially during our Family Fellowship Sundays, when we encourage praying together as the whole fellowship.

Expect teaching from the Bible. We believe the Bible is God’s inspired communication to us. In the Bible, we most clearly find what God has revealed about Himself and His desires for us. Each week, we take time to hear what God has to say, and we strive to apply His word to our lives in practical ways.

Expect to meet people who genuinely care about you. We call our church a fellowship because “fellowship” is an essential description of churches in the Bible. The biblical meaning of fellowship can be summed up by saying we love each other. We’re not perfect, but we do try to love each other as God has loved us. That love spills over to whoever walks through the door.

Know, Love, Become Hour 11:00 am-12:00 pm

Join us for KLB Hour each Sunday after service. KLB will not be held on Fellowship Sundays (the last Sunday of the month).

Nursery will be available from 9:30-12:00 for children age 2 and under in room 216. Parents, please check your child in before going to the room.

Meadows Middles and Bigs age 3 and up will get to stay in the service so that we can all worship together. Kids, be sure to come up for our special kids' time and grab an activity bag. Parents, there's a kid-friendly area in the Narthex.

After service, parents will check Middles and Bigs in for KLB hour using the computer kiosk in the Atrium. After checking in, you will meet in rooms 214 & 215. Your teachers will lead you through the series titled “Bible in one year- stories from Genesis through Revelation”.

Meadows students, 6th grade through High School will meet in room 205. Drew Barnes leads the discussion as you continue studying the New City Catechism. This study will use a question/answer format to teach you about God and theology grounded in scripture.

Adults will meet in Fellowship Hall. Bonnie Pattison teaches and leads discussion through “Know What You Believe”.

If you would like to serve in the nursery or with Meadows Kids during the KLB hour, please contact Marcia Jarrett at kids@meadowsfamily.org. There will be structured teaching lessons provided that allows for all to be a part of this regardless of teaching experience.