Traditions: Soul Care

This series is designed to help us better understand our church traditions and why we do what we do. Find Jesus, community, and purpose. https://southeastcc.org Hi family. How are you? Don't mind us. We're just getting ready. That's for you. (Pastor is handing Marcella a stage prop) Okay. Before we get rolling Marcella is going to open us with prayer here in just a minute, but before we do I need to make one announcement and that is this. We found out some really good news about Israel. They're going to open their country in May which is really exciting. The downside is it's May 23rd and our trip to Israel is supposed to be on May 14th. So that's a drag. What that means is we've moved the May trip to the back half of October. Now I know what you're thinking to yourself. Hey, didn't you say you had a trip already in October? Absolutely we do, but that one's full. That one's the first through the 15th. And so, what we did is we took the May trip and moved it to the 22nd of October until November 5th. And so, if you want to go on that trip, there's space available on it. It's going to fill up quick, but you can jump onto gtitours.org, you get their phone number, or you can email them, and they can get you connected to the trip and get you signed up. So, we'd love to have you come along, come with me to Israel. It's the only time you're going to hear me say that today. But I need to get that out. So, we're all aware now, before we get rolling, since we're going to talk about prayer, it's very fitting that we open with prayer and Marcella is going to do that for us. Kind merciful, loving heavenly father. Thank you for this Lord's day. Thank you that at long last we can come out of isolation and see each other. But Lord, we didn't come to see each other today, we came to see you. We want a word from you. Father, for each person here that has claimed Jesus Christ as the son of God and excepted him as their savior. I pray Lord that you fan within them a fresh flame, that th