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The Beachside Church

Easter @ Beachside

Join us at one of our Easter worship gatherings on April 11th and 12th, 2009. This will be a special celebration and a great opportunity to invite friends. You can help us out by picking up a free ticket at the info center for which worship gathering you, your family, and your friends will be attending. This will help us accommodate the crowds. We will have our normal weekend schedule with services Sat at 6:30 and Sunday at 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30.

Easter Baptism @ Sunrise

We will be having a special baptism service immediately following the sunrise service on Easter. The sunrise service begins at 6:30 A.M. If you would like to be baptized or more information about baptism please contact office@thebeachsidechurch.com.

Check out the Mission Trips page for details on the upcoming mission trips; including support letters for Haiti and Costa Rica.

I love this weather. Saturday was especially good.

After a beautiful, long bike ride I found myself sitting in nice 3-4ft surf – all alone right at the end of my street. I couldn’t help but think about how good my life is. It was one of those days.

As I sat there, an amazing thought gracefully invaded my mind. “There are people dying all around the world due to hunger, disease and violence. How rare is it that people find the kind of peace I experience regularly and take for granted”.

Why me? It’s the obvious question. Many feel a sense of guilt at this point – not me. I enjoyed a few more waves. Why me though? I can’t help but wrestle with this perspective and let it drive me.

God has given me so much. But is it for my pleasure alone or are my days, my life, to be used to make a difference? He is giving me energy, passion and life as fuel for purpose.

Just a thought…

I’m excited to announce the dates for the Haiti trip… July 19-31.  This will be an exciting expansion for our global mission work.

Check out this video that documents a successful mission to Costa.  http://beachsidemissiontrip.wordpress.com/global-missions/

We are getting close to announcing the details for two local efforts. This is going to be ultra cool.  I’m excited to see more and more people giving themselves away.

The secular world doesn’t care what you believe.  Instead they are ready to see what you do. (Do we act like we believe what we say we believe?)

Living Salty- Robbie

We are accepting applications for our next THREE trips.

Costa Rica is 6/14-21 and 6/28-7/5. We can only take 25 and 40 people for those trips so sign up fast. The tentative deadline for sign up is February 22nd. (15 spots are reserved for Christian Surfers that first week.)

I’m excited that preparations are in order for a trip to Haiti.  The dates are not firm yet. But if you are interested please let us know asap. Email the office and fill out an application.  Be sure to check out the Haiti mission web site.  www.nwhcm.org

The Costa Rica team is back – mission accomplished.  They were able to put a new roof on the school in Domincal and much more.  We are excited about the full impact of this effort both in Costa Rica and in Ormond Beach. Are we done now?

My hope is that mission describes who we are more than what we do. So there is always more…

I don’t have much detail yet but the next two trips to Costa are already scheduled June 14-21 and June 28- July 5. Get your applications at the information desk this weekend. And there is more.

The mission team met about an upcoming local project and they would like your help.

We want to put together some projects helping people in our community. But we need to identify a few local projects. The priority will be given to people who attend our church or are associated with our people but we are very open to helping anyone. The priority will be given to projects that require a team to help rather than just writing a check to fill a need. Ideally I’d love to see each project require 10 or more people.

Do you know of anyone who may benefit from an effort like this?

The main purpose is to continue to mobilize our church to live mission.

New messages have been added to the “teaching audio” page on the new website. Click here to see the site (give them a minute to start playing).

Also, you can now access the weekly teaching’s via podcast on itunes. Simply search “the beachside church” in itunes and begin listening and downloading.

thanks!

While our missions team is in Costa Rica, updates are being posted on the missions blog.

Click here to follow along with what God is doing down there through your generous giving to the people of that area of Costa Rica.

With the coming of the new year, we are taking the opportunity to freshen up a bit around The Beachside Church. We’re excited to be launching a new website as well as a new church logo. It’s time for a face lift and we think you’ll dig the new look.

Check back next week as we take it to the next level in 2009.

Happy New Year!!