This week, 4 groups will meet throughout our city to share in the joy of Jesus and apply his gospel to each other’s lives. Outside of Sunday mornings, small groups are the most important moments in the life of our church.
This is the last meeting before we break for the December fallow month. Make it a priority to be there!
Another opportunity to go out into our city! Grab a friend or two and head to DTSA for the annual Plaza Navideña this Saturday evening, 11/22, beginning at 5pm. This event is great way to meet our neighbors and support local businesses as the city lights a Christmas tree and kicks off the start of the holiday season. The festivities are free to attend and offer something for everyone: entertainment, kids crafts, photo opportunities, and more! The tree lighting ceremony will begin promptly at 5:30pm. Find out more information here.
This Sunday, we’re singing a new song to the God who never changes! It’s a song of adoration to the God who will always be exactly who he is (Ex 3:14-15). In our lives that are so up and down and in a world that’s always changing, we rejoice that God remains blessedly the same.
Listen to the song, read the lyrics, and come ready to praise his name this Sunday.
VERSE 1
Before the skies were born
Before the oceans roared
Before the mountains reached for the burning stars
Through all Your words and ways
Through every promise made
Through every means of grace that reveals Your heart
CHORUS
You are unchanging, faithful, unfailing
Now and forevermore
God everlasting, sovereign, and reigning
Now and forevermore
VERSE 2
In every season here
In waves of joy and tears
In all the ways our eyes only see in part
With every trial we face
With every test of faith
With our eternal hope written in Your scars
Verse 3
When earth and heaven fade
When sight has bloomed from faith
When we are home at last in our Savior’s arms
Then all will be made right
Then every tear will dry
Then Your redeeming light will destroy the dark
Every Tuesday we publish a blog post to lay out in one place what’s going in the life of the church for the upcoming week. Below we’ve got a snapshot of what’s on the calendar this week:
Basketball in the Park
6:00pm - El Camino Park
Reach out to Manny for more info
French Park Run Club
6:30am - French Park Grass Area
Small Groups
6:30pm - Lee home
7:00pm - Turbedsky home
Small Groups
7:00pm - Davis & Erkelens homes
Neighborhood Outreach
10:00am - Meet at the Hidden House Parking Lot
Contact Brian Marcus to RSVP
Sunday Gathering at Ebell Club
10:00am - Meeting Room: Ballroom
Every year our family of churches enjoys a family reunion. A time when pastors, wives, and members of Sovereign Grace Churches come together for a week of worship, fellowship, and encouragement in our shared mission. This year, there are over 825 registrants from 23 different nations attending our annual gathering in Orlando, Florida from 11/18-20. The theme is Christ our Glory, and we trust it’ll be a sweet time away!
As a pastoral team we say “thank you” for sending us! This conference is one of the highlights of our year. We’re grateful for this time away which always makes us more eager to come back and serve the church. In addition to sending us, we also ask that you please pray for us while we’re here. Throughout the week, you can pray that:
The Lord would refresh our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Pray that we’d encounter our glorious Savior through the preaching of his word and the singing of his praise in a way that would change us. Fanning the flames of our affections for him. Drawing us deeper into his joy. Impressing upon our souls the amazing privilege we have of serving his people.
The Lord would use this time to equip us to serve our church well. We’re being sent by the members of our church for the members of our church. Pray that we’d come back better leaders than when we left.
The Lord would build existing and establish new relationships among pastors and members of Sovereign Grace Churches across the globe.
The Lord would give us moments of clarity about our local mission. Pray for the Lord to fill us with His Spirit to give us a greater longing to spread the joy of Jesus to our Santa Ana neighbors.
Would the Lord fill our hearts with gratitude for all he’s done & faith for all he’s doing!
This Saturday is our final neighborhood outreach of the year! A team from CGSA will go into French Park and DTSA to strike up spiritual conversations with our neighbors. We’ll take the initiative to get to know them, ask how we can pray for them, and share the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Love to do this sort of thing? Come on down! Scared to do this kind of thing? Then come on down as well! We’re expecting that the Lord will use us to extend his welcome to our neighbors as he takes our very ordinary efforts and blesses them in extraordinary ways. You’re invited to grow more confident in striking up spiritual conversations, learn from your brothers and sisters as you watch them reaching out, and see God “paint our city blue,” one blade of grass at a time.
We’ll meet at the Ebell parking lot at 9:45am to pray before we go out. We’ll wrap up around noon at Hidden House for a quick debrief.
Want to see what it’s like? Check out this video from our September outreach. Reach out to Robert Lopez to RSVP or ask any questions.
Exodus is the story of God's salvation. A story in which God is not only the Author but also the Main Character. The True Hero who's at work in and through the human hero named Moses. In Ex 3, the heroes of the story share their first scene together. God appears to the one who was drawn out of water and calls him to draw Israel out of Egypt. In response, Moses says, "Who am I to do a thing like this?" To which God replies, "It doesn't matter who you are, all that matters is who I am." Which leads Moses to ask, “Well then, who are you?” He asks the most important question anyone could ever ask - “Who is God?” - and receives a direct and divine answer! In the story of the burning bush, we step onto holy ground as God steps into the story and reveals himself to us.
For the final time in 2025, the men of Cross of Grace will gather together to sit under the word, engage in robust discussion, bear their brother’s burdens, and call out to the Lord in prayer. All guys 15 years and older are welcome to join in at the Erkelens home tonight at 7pm.
We’re wrapping up our first year of youth ministry meetings! God has blessed these moments and built up our community of young people in wonderful ways. Make sure to make it out to this final meeting of 2025 before we break for our December Fallow Month! All CGSA youth and their friends are welcome to join in as the group finishes their discussion of C.S. Lewis’ classic The Screwtape Letters, crowns the winner of the youth group games, and more! We’ll see you Sunday at 6:30pm at Hopper & Burr in DTSA.
Every Tuesday we publish a blog post to lay out in one place what’s going in the life of the church for the upcoming week. Below we’ve got a snapshot of what’s on the calendar this week:
Basketball in the Park
6:00pm - El Camino Park
Reach out to Manny for more info
Women’s Friendsgiving
6:30pm - Schlieder Home
French Park Run Club
6:30am - French Park Grass Area
Men’s Meeting
7:00pm - Erkelens home
Neighborhood Outreach
10:00am - Meet at the Hidden House Parking Lot
Contact Brian Marcus to RSVP & for more details.
Sunday Gathering at Ebell Club
10:00am - Meeting Room: Ballroom
