Dear Alyssa Friends,
 
July 4th marks the 3rd anniversary of Alyssa's death, or what we know to be her own personal "independence day."  For the last two years  we have gathered together to walk a  "victory lap" around the track in her honor, and we'd like to invite you to join us again for this short but meaningful memoriam.  Due to the construction at Westmont, we will meet at the lower park in our neighborhood on Westmont Rd. and take our lap around the neighborhood circle.  You will notice that our neighborhood is also under construction!  Park in the first spot you see on the street around the neighborhood.  We will gather in the park near the big rocks that commemorate Alyssa Smelley Memorial Park.
 
Please join us for the
*"3rd Annual Lap for Alyssa."*
Alyssa Smelley Memorial Park, Westmont Rd.
Friday July 3rd
5:30-6:15pm
 
Because Alyssa is with Jesus,
 
Russell and Allison Smelley
 

Offerings Needed YTD:  $319,200.00
Offerings Receive YTD:  $311,941.03 (97.73%)
Still Needed YTD:           $7,258.97

John 3:16 & 17
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." 

 

John 1:1-18
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
 
6There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
 
10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God- 13children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
 
14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,[d] who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
 
15John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' "  16From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. 17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only,who is at the Father's side, has made him known.