This year, we'll be spending the first Friday of every month fasting together. Church members who fast for all 12 Fridays will be invited to a year-end party to celebrate the answers to our prayers. If fasting is new to you, here are some instructions.
Like last month, we'll break our fast with a meal together at 6:00pm before our regular small group meeting at the Houlton home. Contact kyle@sovgraceoc.org for directions and more information.
Come join us immediately after the service this upcoming Sunday, February 25 right out front of Heninger Elementary for a celebration ... simply because we have so much to celebrate. Our brothers and sisters from Sovereign Grace Church of Orange will be joining us. Invite your DTSA neighbors to join us.
It will probably be chilly, so bring a jacket or a blanket and look forward to some good food with good friends.
All ladies are invited to our 2018 Sovereign Grace Women’s Retreat. Join us for one day to consider 'Drawing Near to God.'
Here’s what to expect:
If you haven't yet registered, time is running out, so please register online ASAP so we can have accurate counts for our caterer.
In Colossians 2:16-23, Paul, the author of Colossians, identifies a danger that threatens the health of the church and exposes that danger for what it is, helping us to identify it and turn instead to Christ.
God is going before us. He's bringing people from across the street and across the country as He builds Sovereign Grace Santa Ana. This Friday, Jennifer Williams is moving from Louisville, Kentucky to Orange County. The Lord provided her with a job. She's excited for the move. And she would appreciate a little help getting moved in and unpacked. We'll take the opportunity not only to lend a hand to her, but also to have a party; to do something together. Our regularly scheduled small group meeting is being replaced by a moving party for Jennifer. Please pray that she gets settled in, enjoys the move and becomes plugged in quickly - at work, in her neighborhood and in the church!
Mark your calendars for March 11th at 5:00pm. Our regular Sunday service is being replaced by an all-church meal centered on the Lord's Supper. We will eat and drink together as we meditate more deeply on our Savior's sacrifice.
It's a potluck and more instructions will be coming, so keep an eye on the blog.
We love it when we get the chance to learn from one another; when we're discipled by our friends. This last Sunday, we had the opportunity to hear God's Word preached by Jeff Schleider. As he taught from Colossians 2:6-15, we were reminded that Christians need Jesus as we continue our walk just as much as we needed Him at the beginning of our walk. He alone gives us our best life no matter where - or when - we are.
We're praising God together with Mike and Krista Alvarez for His gift of little Rayanne Marie. She's the first baby in the Alvarez family. She's also the very first baby born within Sovereign Grace Santa Ana. We're praying for God's grace to be poured out on this now family of three.
Al pastor. Asada. Pollo. What do all of these things share in common? They'll all be eaten by you and your friends on delicious corn tortillas from 6:30-7:30pm on Sunday, February 25.
That very Sunday, Sovereign Grace Santa Ana has the privilege of hosting Riley Spring, a student at the Sovereign Grace Churches Pastors College hailing from Sovereign Grace Sydney (Australia). We're going to treat him to a taste of Santa Ana right outside the gates of Heninger Elementary. Tacos El Campesino will be supplying the tacos. They're on the house. Our friends from Sovereign Grace Orange are invited. Our Downtown Santa Ana friends and neighbors are invited.
As we continued our series in Colossians - a book concerning the new life of a small church in Colossae - we discovered this last week just how much the new life of this church was worth to Paul, the author of Colossians. In Colossians 1:24-2:5, we find that it was worth every bit of suffering that he had experienced. Listen to the message to find out not only why, but also how Paul is able to say "I rejoice in my sufferings ..."
