Our Life Together
Sober Fun & Fellowship – Video Highlights
Mar 8th
On Monday, March 1, 2010, we hosted a night of games, free refreshments, music and mixing to accentuate individual lives of recovery and develop stronger bonds of fellowship within our various recovery groups.
Kroc Church’s Belinda Owens graciously hosted the Bunco game, a fun, fast-paced Yahtzee-like opportunity for everyone to yell like silly people; Chef Ross provided the snacks (special thanks to all the Food & Beverage Associates who provided support for our monthly Breakfast for Dinner, and for those ever-so-in-demand ice cream sandwiches!
We believe taking these breaks for sober fun and fellowship is vital to our continued success in personal recovery and our corporate goals. So what’s next for sober fun? Someone suggested we go to the Kroc Center Ice Arena. Someone else suggested the Skate Park… We’ll have to pray on that one!
Good One
Mar 8th
An unfortunate by-product of our contemporary culture is a strong notion that it’s us against them.
It’s time to replace this old, destructive, counterproductive notion with a not-so-new idea. We need each other.
We are all stakeholders in the great enterprise of humanity. We are enriched by each other. We are interdependent, intercommunicating and in community.
Read the Bible in One Year – Start TODAY!
Mar 1st
We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and that they only constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and practice.
- The Salvation Army Articles of Faith
Being good, Bible-believing people that we are, we’ve begun to really challenge one another to stay in the Word daily. After all…
- If this really is a message from outside the universe, we really should know it well.
- And if it really is authored by a Being so much greater than ourselves, we’ll have to work at it to really understand.
- And if we’re really human, it’s not something we can cram into our minds. We need to visit the text often, and in small enough portions that the Word has opportunity to take root in our souls, bit by glorious bit.
So, we’re doing this together.
We’re reading through the entire Bible in one year, beginning today, March 1, 2010. You can join us – it’s easy and it’s free.
Find more details on the Bible in One Year page. Details like:
- How and why this is a chronological reading, which makes it NOT a Genesis to Revelation reading straight through.
- How you can commit to reading only the New Testament in one year instead of the entire Bible.
- How to get the digital version OR the print version (or both!).
If you really want to stay on top of this, ask for daily reminders via email.
New Kroc Center Program Guide
Feb 26th
The 2010 Spring & Summer Program Guide is online now; check out the new classes, reduced day-use fees and more!
Here are some interesting pages:
Page 5: Family Resource Center
Our Family Resource Center is a great source for hope and healing in local communities.
We offer counseling services, emergency food boxes, personal hygiene items, scholarship assistance for Kroc Center memberships and more.
Our 4th Annual Kroc Church at the Pool is scheduled for Sunday, July 4, 2010. Plan for even more fun as we worship in the sun (or shade – the choice is yours)!
We’ll renew our dive contest tradition, we’ll keep your toes tappin’ with upbeat and fun live music, and we’ll have plenty of healthy and tasty refreshments on hand.
Page 51: Summer Camp Sign-Up Special
Save 10% off Summer Day Camp fees when you sign up the weekend of March 12-14.
If you’re considering sending your kids to the Kroc Center’s ACA Accredited and highly esteemed Summer Day Camp Program, that’s a great weekend to sign up!
New Summer Day Camp Guide
While you’re catching up on all the new information, take a look through this year’s Summer Day Camp Guide as well.
Of special note is the new at-a-glance view of all Camping Programs offered in any given week.
Fun Specialty Camps include Introduction to Karate, Junkyard Wars, Mythbusters and Urban Rhythms.
Daily Bible Readings – Week 2 of 2
Feb 20th
Here’s week two of our “Prayers from the Bible” series of readings. Use these prayers to bolster your spirit and shore up your convictions – next week we’ll begin the full one-year walk through the Bible!
The one year plan finds us reading through the entire Bible chronologically. We begin in Genesis, but quickly find ourselves in Job, then back to Genesis again, and so on.
To keep our minds alert, though, we’re actually doing two separate readings at once: each day includes a portion of the Old Testament and a portion of the New Testament, so it’s really two separate timelines per day.
Daily Bible Readings – Week 1 of 2
Feb 14th
We’re set to launch a large-scale daily Bible reading plan for the collective experience and edification of our entire congregation (lots o’ big words there!). In the meantime, please enjoy this first of two sets of Bible-based prayers.
Here’s a suggestion: pray these prayers yourself!
Daily Bible Readings – Week 6 of 6
Feb 8th
Here’s our 2nd week of passages on God’s view of social justice. We have two days from Amos, an often overlooked Biblical hero with a passion for helping the hurting and the disenfranchised.
