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Get ready!

Get ready for a great weekend across our campuses at Prairie Lakes Church as we kick off a new series, The Great Omission.  There’s no doubt this series will change your outlook on summer.  We’re going to be challenged to “be the church” not just “part of a great church”. 

Another cool thing we get a chance to do this weekend is start another month of the Fasting 40. Each month, we ask for 40 people to fast and pray for Prairie Lakes Church as we journey to reach Iowa.  Fasting 40 cards will be available at the front of the Worship Center at each campus, following the service.

Kingdom Impact

WOW!  We had an awesome weekend across our campuses!  I am so humbled by all of the stories of the great volunteers that we have serving at Prairie Lakes Church.  The Kingdom impact is so evident – thank you to each and every one of you!

… AND nearly 50 people were baptized this weekend.  Praise God!  What a great picture of why we do what we do around here, and why serving makes such a difference in the lives of those who come through the doors of Prairie Lakes Church.

Celebrate Impact

This weekend, we'll have nearly 50 people being baptized across our campuses!  This is why we do what we do...life change!  Also, we celebrate the impact of volunteers.  Each campus will have multiple stories of why it matters, life change and why it matters...this is going to be a great weekend!

If you have a friend you've been wanting to invite, do it now because this weekend will give them a great picture of the Kingdom and of Prairie Lakes Church.

Tuesday's Top Three

Here are the top three things you need to know:

1: This past weekend we wrapped up our series, OUCH! with some steps on "How to get Dissatisfied". If you missed any of this series, be sure to check it out online.

2: Due to weather, theRock and theRoad in Cedar Falls are moving their End of the Year party indoors.  The water fight is cancelled...but the Hungry Games are on.  Get all the info on their blog.

3: Our Osage campus had 75 kids in their children's ministry this past weekend!  Praise God!  

Last weekend to learn how to wreck your life...

Get ready for a great weekend across our campuses at Prairie Lakes Church. We're going to wrap up our OUCH! series with a topic that seems less potent...but in the end, may be the most insidious of them all!

And by the way, don't be late. Right at the top of the service is a video you're not going to want to miss, featuring Jonathan Nance, our Grinnell Worship Director.

Get a friend on your arm - who know what God wants to do...don't say "no" for anybody.

This might hurt!

This weekend we're going to kick off our new series, OUCH!  ...and it may hurt!  It's not going to be church as normal.  I'm going to give you step-by-step directions on how to wreck your life and end up in a place you never thought you'd be.

It's going to be a great weekend of worship and clear, simple teaching across our campuses.  So get a friend and get them to church.  Re-invite everyone you invited to Easter.  And remember, be an inviter and a bringer!

37 Seconds with Pastor John

Can't see the video?  Check it out here!

Humbled.

We are humbled by what God did this weekend across our Prairie Lakes Church campuses.  This picture is just one of thirteen crosses from one of seven Easter services.  God moved in mighty ways!

Every nail tells a story, and every story represents a person’s step with God.  There were some amazing sights this weekend:

• People streaming forward to be done with something Jesus already finished.
• College students parking at the lake and running down the highway to get to church.
• A team scrambling to get the Cedar Falls Chapel ready and put a cross together so the overflow crowd could experience the service.
• The hundreds of volunteers who recognized that Easter wasn’t about them.
• People waiting inside the doors for the friends they invited.
• The broken people who related to Rich’s story on the video coming out of a life of drugs.

Just an FYI, we had 4,400 total kids and adults across our campuses this Easter weekend.  And we had 1,500 total at the Good Friday services.

Praise God!  Every number is a soul and every soul counts because Jesus says nothing is more important than a soul.

Can't wait!

Can't wait for this weekend at Prairie Lakes Church from Good Friday through Sunday - God is going to do some amazing things!  You and your family and your friends will be blessed and challenged with the proven love of Jesus.  Can't wait!

Remember to be an inviter and a bringer.  Get after it!  Call them now...walk across the street...text them...walk across the hallway...

Can't wait!

Be a BRINGER at Easter

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus.  -- John 1:40-42

 

In John 1:42, Andrew BROUGHT Peter to Jesus ... and then in verse 46, Philip BROUGHT Nathanael to see Jesus.  I want you to notice something about these two verses – Andrew and Philip didn’t just invite, they BROUGHT.

Remember, Easter isn’t about you – it’s about what Jesus did and it’s about your friends that don’t know Him yet.  (Pastor Chip hit this yesterday in his blog.)

So, who are you bringing? Who has God put on your heart? Remember the number one invitational rule at Prairie Lakes Church, “don’t ever say ‘no’ for somebody else”. Don’t assume you’re going to be rejected. Go for it!

Be a BRINGER!

Check out our website for Good Friday and Easter service times and locations across our campuses.