Another dinner group launch is just around the corner!  At the weekend services on September 25 and 26, we will have our launch for dinner groups this fall. 

Since this is a new ministry at Heritage, most of us don’t know what a dinner group is.  Really, it’s just food and fellowship.  Well, maybe a little bit of fun, too, but you get the picture.  A dinner group is a simple and easy way to get to know others who attend Heritage.

Just let me know if you are interesting in participating in a dinner group, or if you would have an interest hosting a group, or if you would like more information about dinner groups.  We’re cooking up something special, just for you.

Everyone loves a good quote.  Here are a few that I have enjoyed, that I have recently posted on my facebook page.  I hope that they feed your soul this summer.

Jesus did not come to make bad people good.  He came to make dead people live.  Ravi Zacharias.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil, as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.  Donald Miller.

When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there.  When we dream of the future, we want to go there.  Our dreams are where God paints a picture of a life waiting to be created.  Erwin McManus

It is impossibe to get exhausted in work for God.  We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work in our own way.  Oswald Chambers

Change does not roll in on wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.  Martin Luther King.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.  Ravi Zacharias.

How is it that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person?  The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.  Erwin McManus.

Hope that you continue to have an awesome summer.

This weekend we had our launch for dinner groups, a brand new ministry at Heritage.  The aroma of snacks and appetizers filled the church as hundreds heard about dinner groups for the first time.  The eight new dinner group hosts met scores of Heritage attenders who are “hungry” for community and connection.

Dinner groups are food, fellowship, and friends.  It is not too late to join one of the new groups that are forming at this time.  Many of them will meet for the very first time over the course of the next couple of weeks.  Young, old, married, single, great cooks, and novices, there is a group for you.

I attended my first dinner group in May with the new hosts of dinner groups, who were being trained.  I can tell you that over one meal you will feel more connected and get to know people better than a year of saying “hi” as you pass by them in church or have short conversations in the lobby.  This really is a great way to get to meet others at Heritage and to make new friends.

At Heritage we hope to provide nourishment for each attender that only a community of connected people can offer.  If you are interested in finding a dinner group that has a convenient time and location for you contact Holly Fissel at hfissel@heritagecc.org.

Bon appetit!