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Music and Drama Camp
Jun 2
Posted In: Children, Music
Children's Music and Drama Day Camp
June 27 - July 1, 2011
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Children who have completed grades 1st through 6th may participate in an exciting program of activities that will include music, singing, movement, drama, crafts and recreation. On Friday, July 1, at 7 p.m., the children will present a program showcasing all they have learned during the week.
Early registration until June 10 is $35 per child, after that date registration will be $40 per child. This fee includes a camp t-shirt, snacks, CD and supplies. Each child will need to bring a sack lunch each day.
For more information, contact Denise Voto at the church office, 865-983-2080.
The Year in Review
Jan 11
Posted In: Church Wide
How Do You Measure a Year?
The song, Seasons of Love from the Broadway musical, Rent, tells the story of marking time. The question is asked, "How do you measure a year?" Good question! How do you measure a year? What about 2010?
If you ask a group of Chilean miners they would probably say in days--days under the ground in the belly of the earth. Maybe some of them would say in minutes--minutes in a tiny capsule heading them toward sunlight!
Ask folks in Nashville and they might tell you in inches--inches of rainfall and flash flooding!
Haitians might tell you the year is measured in death--death from the earthquake and death from cholera. Others might say, "No, it's measured in lives." Lives barely holding on in a sea of makeshift tents and squalor.
And BP might say it's measured in gallons--gallons of spilled oil, businesses lost, wildlife destroyed and EVERYTHING covered in black "gunk!"
Closer to home if you ask a couple of local football teams they might tell you that this year is definitely measured in championships and touchdowns.
In 2010 Republicans will count the year in seats gained; Wikileak in secrets revealed; kids by the number of silly bandzs collected and travelers might measure by the number of bed bugs they find!
How do you measure 2010? Some of our Fairview family will count the year in days of sobriety, others by the number of resumes sent out, and some by the number of treatments they had to endure courtesy of some awful disease. Some will remember the day she walked out and others will recall the day he came home. Too many will recall precious souls who went home this year. Many in our church family have held their breath waiting for the "other shoe to fall" and other have held their breath in awe as they witnessed the birth of a new baby. How ever you do it, consciously or not--everybody is measuring.
I don't know what yardstick you used this year, but this much I can tell you--there are five hundred twenty-five thousand and six hundred minutes (525,600) in 2010 and God has been here for all of them! In our good times and in the bad; when we had tears of joy and when we shed tears of sorrow; when we were jubilant and when we were mournful, God WAS there!
Fairview, take note! Emmanuel is with us. You have not been abandoned. You are loved by the incredible, amazing, unconditional love of God! And that love can not be measured.
Looking Back and Pushing Forward
May 1
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Recently I had the chance to chat with longtime pastor/member of Fairview, Marvin Gass. Its important to understand that as we look to the future to see what legacy Fairview will have in the coming generations we can best live into the vision God has given us by examining the DNA of our past. I asked Marvin what helped Fairview grow in the past. Without much hesitation Marvin told me that it was relationships that helped Fairview grow. Relationships that were formed when people visited for the first time, relationships that were nourished by visits and ongoing invitations to join the Fairview community, and relationships that were discovered as people connected with the neighbors around them. So the question that haunts us today is, “where are we meeting the neighbors in our world who need Christ?” You and I are Fairview and no amount of programming can replace the open doors that the Spirit creates when you and I reach out to those around us on a one-to-one basis. I challenge you to find someone who does not know Christ and get to know them. Because here are the cold hard facts… if you don’t know someone who is not Christian then you cannot be faithful to the calling God has on your life. You can’t make disciples out of disciples, and you can’t reconcile people to God when they’ve already been reconciled. We must be like Christ… seeking out relationships with the least the last and the lost. Don’t let Heritage Sunday come and go and not remember who you are and who God has called Fairview to be. This is a time to remember the past as we run towards the future that God has for us. Here is your charge Fairview…. Passionately glorify the one who has rescued you from destruction, extravagantly welcome those who do not know Christ and win them to God through his extravagantly, messy, unrelenting love, help each other see what it looks like to take on the mind of Christ as we live it out in service to this world and one another.
Light up the dark!
-Jeremy LaDuke