Monday, January 25, 2010

Origins: Worship Schedule

January 31st
Network Gathering - “Crescent City Praise” 7 pm
February 7th
Super Bowl – no teaching scheduled this week
February 14th
Impressions – Philippians 1:1-11
February 21st
Impressions – Philippians 1:12-18
February 28th
Impressions – Philippians 1:19-26
March 7th
Impressions – Philippians 1:27-30
March 14th
Impressions – Philippians 2:1-4
March 21st
Impressions – Philippians 2:5-11
March 28th
Impressions – Philippians 2:12-18
Easter Sunday
Network Gathering - TBA
April 11th
Impressions – Philippians 2:19-24
April 18th
Impressions – Philippians 2:25-30
April 25th
Impressions – Philippians 3:1-16
May 2nd
Impressions – Philippians 3:17–4:1
Mother’s Day
Impressions – Philippians 4:2-9
May 16th
Impressions – Philippians 4:10-13
May 23rd
Impressions – Philippians 4:14-23
May 30th
Network Gathering – Origins Picnic

Friday, January 1, 2010

Bring on a New Year and a New Decade!

Happy New Year!!
Do you remember where you were at the beginning of the decade we just left behind? Some of us may have been gripped by fear at the thought of Y2K, and some of us were so young we had no idea what it all meant we were just up for the adventure. As I look back over the last decade of my life I am simply amazed at what God has done. He called me to ministry, moved to me New Orleans to attend seminary, I lost a parent, experienced a devastating Hurricane and the exile from the city that I love, was called to church staff positions that were all in God's timing the going and then the leaving, experienced the deepest of emotional hurts and in the last year of the decade have finally understood what it means to begin the healing process. WOW!! It was an amazing decade.
Jeremiah 29:11 simply states that God knows the plans He has for us, plans to prosper and not to harm, plan for our good not for evil. As I look back over the last decade at the joy, the pain, the emotional chaos. I would not trade it for anything in the world, because without it I would not have been able to walk the amazing roads on the this journey of life with the one who loves me in spite of myself and the one who knew me before I was knit together in my mother's womb, Jehovah God himself.
I believe God has amazing things in store for each and everyone of us this brand new year and in this brand new decade. So bring it on 2010 we are ready and armed with the love, grace and mercy of Jesus that is renewed every single morning.

Happy New Year!!!
Carrie