Everyday Groups: Special Events

photo of Everyday People courtesy of bjenright.comThree of our Everyday Groups are organizing some special events over the next couple of weekends. Get involved! You don’t have to be a part of these groups to participate.

The Everyday Inwood Group

is serving at the Hudson Point Nursing Home in Riverdale. This is the first time this group will be serving there, so it’s a great time to get involved. It will be a Tea Time Meet & Greet with residents. For more info, contact Kate: Email Kate. This Sunday, 9/22, 12p-3p

The Everyday Creativity Group

is welcoming a representative from Gifted Hands to their meeting. Come learn about this incredible organization that tries to make equal opportunity to education a reality through a variety of artisitc endeavors. For more info, contact Nathan: Email Nathan. This Sunday, 9/22, 7:30p

The Everyday Family Group

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is offering “Ye Olde Baby Changing Station” at the Medieval Festival. Help set up the tent, or dress up like a Princess and offer a safe place for attendees to to change their little ones– something local parents are extremely grateful for! For more info, contact Wendy: Email Wendy. Next Sunday, 9/29, 11:30a and following.

 

Serve! … and volley… and backhand!

Tennis 2012_Web4Everyday Church is sponsoring a free tennis clinic for kids in 1st-5th grade, June 13th & 14th 3-5:30pm and June 15th 8:30-11:00am. Experienced tennis instructors are traveling to NYC from one of Everyday Church’s partner churches (Southeast Christian Church) to offer their expertise.

We’ll introduce area kids to tennis, and teach the basics of play through a variety of fun exercises. In years past, neighborhood parents and students have expressed appreciation for this fun, free, enriching activity.

If you know a 1st-5th Grader who would like to participate, or if you are interested in volunteering with us, contact Wendy.

 

You Can Help Plant the “Everyday Garden”

The Everyday GardenAfter we painted a beautiful mural for a local school called Inwood Academy for Leadership, they named their outdoor seating area the “Everyday Garden.” Now the Everyday Inwood Group is taking the next step! This Sunday, we’re going to do some digging and planting. You can help us make something grow. In the future, we’re dreaming about planting food, and even educating local students about nutrition.

Get your hands ready for a worthy cause this Sunday, 12p-2p. Invite a friend along– anyone is welcome to come.

For more information, contact Kate.

 

Pray For Us: An Update From Chris

God is doing something remarkable with Everyday Church, and it’s an answer to prayer. Our young faith-family is unusually diverse. We have people coming from all over the spiritual map– seekers, skeptics, young believers, mature believers.

We’re ethnically diverse. Some of us speak English as a first language, others Spanish. We have singles, newly-weds, and couples who’ve been married for decades. Some have earned advanced degrees; others are street smart. We come in all colors that humans come in. We are babies, toddlers, kids, teens, twenty-somethings, people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s… all in a church of now, perhaps 100 people!

“In this new life, it doesn’t matter if you are a Jew or a Gentile, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbaric, uncivilized, slave, or free. Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.” Colossians 3:11 (NLT)

Christ is all that matters!

Please pray:
* That this diversity is just the beginning for ECC.
* For our Spanish translators: Mi and Iris.
* For English speakers who are trying to learn Spanish (like me!)
* That God would teach us how to truly love one another in Christ.
* That God would use this diversity to convince our neighbors He is among us.

We can’t do this without you. Please pray,

Chris

Pray For Us: An Update From Wendy

Math Tutoring 1The feedback from our Math Tutoring program has been very positive. Parents, students, teachers and school administration have all let us know they found our program to be very helpful. That is a huge win! We want to praise God for opening up this opportunity to work together with neighborhood schools. Our relationship with the school is a beautiful thing.
I am so thankful to the volunteers who gave up their Saturdays to make a difference in these student’s lives. Let’s pray they do well on the exams and sense the support of their families and community. Please pray that God continues to create opportunities like this to love our neighbors well.
Thanks for praying with me,
Wendy