::MID WEEK PREVIEW

Check out this week's Mid Week Preview, featuring our Director of Excitement James Parsons and our Lead Pastor Dean Inserra here.   

::DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING 

Tallahassee Biblical Counseling Ministries will be offering a discipleship class entitled, "Self-Confrontation."  This is an in-depth discipleship training program that teaches you how to study the Scriptures for answers to all of life's problems.  Its unique approach enables you to learn biblical principles from the Bible and practically apply them to your own life.  This class will also prepare you to help others to do the same. The classes begin May 17^th and will continue for 13 weeks and will be led by Caryn Shivar and Rev. Dick Brown.  For more information, please e-mail Caryn Shivar at carynlaurel@hotmail.com.

::SERVICE: TUTORING HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS 

We're helping high school students prepare for final exams. Come to one or all tutoring days.
Contact Heidi Schaff for more information heidi.schaff@gmail.com or sign up on the Facebook page!

Volunteers Needed: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Saturday May 14    Saturday May 21    Saturday May 28

::MOTHER'S DAY BABY DEDICATIONS 

On Sunday, May 8th, we will honor our families and new babies during the 11:15 a.m. service with Baby Dedications as the church commits to help support, love, encourage and raise children alongside parents.  If you would like to have your child dedicated, sign up here, and if you've got questions or would like more info, contact Teri Hill, our Kids Director. 

 ::COLOMBIA CLOTHING DRIVE

We have a goal to clothe 100 families in the city of Cartagena that our group will be visiting this summer.  We're hoping to fill the trailer at the Warehouse, and donations are starting to be accepted this Sunday at every service.    

::YOUNG PROFESSIONALS NETWORK  

Thursday, April 28th, 6:00 - 8:00 @ the large field under the bridge on Blairstone btwn Mahan and Park

Join City Church's ladies groups as they host a sunset picnic and enjoy the fine outdoors.  Snacks and beverages will be provided.  Blankets, frisbees and footballs are strongly encouraged.  For more info check out the facebook event.  

by Krissie Inserra 

As most of you know, we started with 24 people in a living room 4 years ago.  More than half of them have moved on to other places, and on Easter Sunday, just 4 years into our church's history, we had the largest crowd ever.  Not that we're looking for a crowd. But as Dean says, numbers equal people and people equal souls. So yes, we care very much about numbers.  

When I look back on the last four years in my life and in the life of my church, I can only respond by worshiping the God who orchestrated it all and is receiving all the glory.  During this time, Tommy went from "we don't know if he'll ever walk or talk, so we just need to wait and see" status to doing awesome in preschool and waiting eagerly for kindergarten (and kicking some butt in his non-competitive T-Ball league).  Dean and I went from "will we ever be able to give birth to another child?" to life with a very happy and active 11-month-old, Ty.  Our church went from 24 people in a living room to three services in our newly renovated warehouse.  In every area, lives have been changed.  Drastically.  Radically.  

Yet for some reason, whenever I face a new challenge or obstacle, I'm afraid maybe God won't come through this time.  Maybe he's done changing lives and answering  prayers.  Obviously, this is completely ridiculous, but I bet if you're honest with yourself, you feel the same way too sometimes.  Perhaps you've been praying for someone to come to know Christ for years and still they mock God.  Maybe you've been trying to have a child for a painfully long time and it's just not happening.  It could be a relationship that you've been trying desperately to have or make work.  Maybe there's a job or a promotion that you've been hoping for.  Whatever the need, God desires to change lives and answer prayers.  But when I look back over the past four years, I realize there were things that I prayed for earnestly- good things- that did not come to fruition.  But if they would have, things would not have turned out the way they did for me.  God knew exactly what he was doing.

And He's just getting started.