Good Wednesday afternoon High Places,
In a few hours at 7:00 PM we will continue our bible study at the Grove in the movie room. Everyone is invited each Wednesday to join us!
Thank you Orion for covering for me last Sunday while I officiated a wedding ceremony out of state. We appreciate you for all you gifts and talents, and look forward to seeing you grown and develop in ministry.
Important Note: Due to several factors, our High Places Meeting will be pushed back one week to Thursday, September 23rd in the lobby. We will have a virtual connection set up also for those who cannot join us in person. In this meeting, we'll review our ministry teams and talk about how they attach to the whole. We will also briefly review our 5 Commitments in our ten-year vision plan, as well as announce some exciting things coming in October.
All HPCC folk who are interested in learning more about High Places and our ministries are encouraged to attend this meeting, not just leadership. In the coming season, we will be re-energizing our leadership teams across the board with the aim of coming out of COVID-19 with increasing levels of clarity, commitment, faith, and vision.
This Sunday, we're back on the prayer theme and our topic will be repentance. Repentance literally means to "make an about face" or to turn and go in the opposite direction. If there are areas in our lives that keep us from experiencing the fullness of God and living into His purposes, they're things we are asked to set aside. We will look at the life of King David as an example of repentance (he was kind of an expert on the subject for all the wrong reasons!).
I trust everyone is staying safe and keeping healhty during the pandemic. Please pray for our frontline health care workers who are extremely burdened and overworked right now due to the numbers of covid patients crowding hospitals, predominately unvaccinated. I have personally spoken with three different people this week alone who were in situations requiring medical attention who either were unable or severely delayed in getting treated due to staff and bed shortages at our local hospital. This is concerning for us all and is a matter for prayer as is the condition of the State of Tennessee right now as we lead the nation in covid infections. Keep all these things in prayer, and pray for your staff as well as we daily try to determine the best way forward and seek God's wisdom and grace.
Thank you all for being so awesome. Love you and hope to see you in a bit for Bible Study.
David