Good Friday morning Church Requel!
Join us for our worship, Sunday morning February 14th at 11am EST. We will be singing some great praise and worship songs including "Your Love Never Fails" by Jesus Culture, "How He Loves" by David Crowder, "Good Good Father" by Chris Tomlin, "King Of Love" by Jesus Culture, "Cornerstone" by Hillsong," and "God So Loved" by We The Kingdom. We will pray together for our congregation needs and we will share communion together. Our Bible study will be from 1 Peter 2:4-10.
Our sermon is titled, "Who Am I In Christ?" This is no small question. Allow me to re-state it. How do you see yourself? Or here is another one: What difference does my Christianity make? Peter is writing to Christians who are discouraged and struggling. In this Covid-filled world, these ideas of how we rise above our struggles, because we are Christ-followers, are so timely!
Last Sunday everything on the stream went swimmingly well... right up until the last 15 minutes. Suddenly everything went dark. If you were watching, you may be wondering what happened. Our Spectrum Internet went out right about noon. I don't know if you have seen their commercials, but Spectrum advertises 99.9% reliability. Apparently we discovered the 00.1% (sigh).
We have made adjustments as a result. We will keep one of our cameras (my iPhone) always connected through Verizon rather than through Spectrum. So in the future, if we lose our Spectrum connection, we can always remain connected with Verizon. If that ever should happen again, give us a moment to change over the camera and the mic. It's never happened before and I'm hoping it doesn't happen again... but now we are prepared if it does.
On the positive note, we were THRILLED to have Leanna Perdue managing our stream and your comments from her remote location. How wonderful to have another Church Requel team member! If you wonder how your comments are showing up in the lower third of your screen, it's because Leanna is making it happen! Yay!
Another positive is that the worship stream is now available on YouTube as well as the normal Facebook feed. Quite a few of you have been watching on YouTube. There are several advantages to YouTube. First, you can watch it on your larger TV screen rather than just on your mobile device - so it is more shareable with the family. Second, it also more shareable with your friends. You can use THIS LINK to connect directly to the video AND to share it with your family and friends so they can watch too.
I also want to thank you all for your continued financial support of our church. In this weird time when most of us are not comfortable gathering together, it has been so wonderful to watch you continue to give to Church Requel. To make a one-time contribution, just go to give.ChurchRequel.org. Again - thank you!
Hope to "see" most of you Sunday morning at 11am EST. Love you much! Pastor Mark
