Upcomming Home Groups Project

Hello Home Group Leaders!

Happy Thanksgiving to all your families and extended families. I hope your dinner table is “Thank/FULL” of good food and love.

We are driving up to Richmond, VA Thursday, to be with family. Before we leave, we have prepared a turkey for the homeless men in the Charlotte area. We are so “Thank/FULL” that God has given us the ability to help others in need.

As Pastor Rob mentioned in this past weekend’s “Thank/FULL” service, by the time the Thanksgiving dinner is over and done, and we have given “Thanks” for all God has given us, the table is taken down… the Christmas lights and decorations go up. Hopefully, our spirits go up as well in the excitement of the Christmas season.

Sadly, not everyone’s spirits go up. For some, it’s a time of frustration, bitterness, and loneliness.

As Southbrook’s new Director of Home Groups, I am very pleased to announce that this Christmas season, Southbrook Church has partnered with Angel Tree, and Prison Fellowship. Since 1982, Angel Tree along with Prison Fellowship, have partnered with churches and volunteers around the country to minister to the children of prisoners and their families. Celebrating 25 years of building confidence, healing wounds, and changing lives through the love of Christ.

This is a great opportunity for ALL home groups to continue the “Thank/FULL” giving in our communities. It will also be a great opportunity for the many Southbrook members who are not yet in a home group to become involved in helping less fortunate families this Christmas, and see how home groups should be and could be a part of their Christian life too, “Living Life Together.”

We have all the material and information needed to make this Angle Tree program a success. All we need from you is 1 hour of your time to learn about this wonderful program and touch lives. Your Southbrook Pastors are excited and committed to the success of this program.

Our plan is to have each home group sponsor a family, find out their needs, gather the gifts, take them to the families before Christmas and most importantly, share the greatest gift of all, “The Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

I want to get together with ALL of you, either as a group of leaders or individually so we can get this rockin’. Yes I know we’re all very busy with the Christmas season rapidly approaching, PLEASE think about the children and parents during a season of frustration, bitterness, and loneliness, and their need for Jesus in their lives.

In His “Thank/FULL” love and service;

Jay