4/20/2024 0 Comments Clean hands and a pure heart game![]() ![]() Thanks for your generosity in past years-let's do it again. Our goal is to donate 100 cans of peaches as church. City Gospel expects 500 shoppers this year. The Exchange empowers shoppers to celebrate Thanksgiving without destroying their tight budgets. Referred by local churches and community organizers, participants pay $10 to shop for their Thanksgiving groceries. We will partner again this year with City Gospel Mission to donate cans of peaches for their Thanksgiving Exchange. Come hang out and spread joy to our kiddos. Contact Shanté for more information. We need YOU to shower our Echo Kids with treats. Safety measures:All Echo Kids and Echo candy givers-come in costumes and please wear masks.We will be socially distanced with cars and people at least six feet apart. We'll have gloves for candy distributers or bring your own.For our older Echo kids, we invite you to both receive and pass out candy. Trunk-or-treat will be held in the parking lot neighboring the Carr home (2323 Ashland Ave) on the night BEFORE Halloween, Friday October 30 from 6:00–7:00pm. (Stay longer to socialize, but candy time will be this hour.) This event is Echo Church only to avoid the crowds and provide the safest fun. Resonating the voice of God throughout the city and to the ends of the earth.Īnd we do that through our values of Creativity, Connectivity, and Commission. That key verse defines the motto of Echo Church: "Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."-Psalm 19:4 You'll see several iterations of the logo throughout our site and social pages, all designed by our very own Andrew Springsteen! We love the way he visually interpreted this Scripture: The website is updated now and will continue to have tweaks. We revealed our new logo and colors on Sunday. All of us being on the same page is a huge blessing to Echo. Again, we are so thankful for your care for one another. Stay tuned & we will keep you updated.Please pray for our wisdom as leaders and share any thoughts or ideas you have to stay connected during this season. But with current infection rates, this may not be safe to attempt. We are planning the parameters for a service in our building. Our goal would be to try and meet as a full church on November 22 for a Thanksgiving service. Anyone is welcome to join and connect with others, take communion together, and discuss the morning message topic. In November, each yard can determine if they'd like to meet based on weather and health.īeginning in November, besides the outdoor yard options, Shanté will be hosting a weekly Zoom gathering at 11:00 a.m. This Sunday, Oct 25, backyards are meeting and you can join Dillon & Kathy's yard via Zoom at 11am. It was a blessing to spend time as a church in God's presence, worshiping and communing. We again thank you for being flexible as we navigate 2020. Though our hands and feet were cold, our hearts were warm with joy. May we honor Him with clean hands and clean hearts.ANNOUNCEMENTS Worship services: an updateīIG THANKS to everyone who braved the rain and cool temps to celebrate Echo's 15th anniversary in the park last Sunday. Maybe as we clean our hands, we allow His Word to wash our hearts at the same time? So maybe we pull out an index card, write scripture on it, tape it by all the sinks, and while we wash our hands for 20 seconds 100 times a day, we recite His Word. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.” James 4:8-10 Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow. Cleanse your hands, sinners, and purify your hearts, double minded people! Be miserable and mourn and weep. ![]() “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Lord, give me eyes to see the truth that lives in my heart. I start outside and somehow think the cleansing action will work its way into the crevices of my heart. “Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so the outside of it may also become clean.” Matthew 23:26 While the world preaches to start with clean hands, God instructs an alternate starting point. ![]() Taking our human traditions and flipping them over. ![]() Jesus has always been the King of upside down, inside out. Luke 11:39 “But the Lord said to him: “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and evil.” I don’t want to live like a Pharisee.Īll this talk of hand washing has me contemplating heart washing. Can the outside be clean and the inside filthy? I find it interesting the connection in the Bible with clean hands and clean hearts. God, create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me. ![]()
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