Due to the weather conditions, the church offices and building have been closed for the day. All activities and events have been cancelled. Weather permitting, we will re-open tomorrow, Tuesday, March 18 at 8:30 a.m. Check www.cscslions.org--we will follow their cancellation schedule.
We have 12 Bibles from the Lost & Found that have no names in them and cannot be tracked back to their owners. So we would like to match them up with new owners. If you have an immediate need of a Bible to give to someone, please come visit the church office and ask at reception desk about selecting one of these Bibles. We have various versions and age ranges (one or two children's, one boy, one sports, etc) available.
Any leftover Bibles will be given to the Welcome Ministry to distribute.
The December 14 Wranglers Show at Pulpit Rock Church has officially sold out at our 400 ticket maximum! (12/12/07) Keep watching the website for future performance information.
We're looking for holiday recipes and stories about the recipe and/or your family traditions connected to it. These recipes will be published in the December issue of the Front Porch Magazine. Stories can be from 100-120 words. Please help us fill out this special section of next month's magazine by emailing your recipe and story to Dianna Gay before Thursday, November 22.
Due to the INSPIRE Arts Conference this weekend, the FUEL community will be moved off campus on Saturday, October 6. FUEL is a place for college-aged young adults to connect, interact, and pursue God's call together. It is open to people ages 18 through their mid-20’s. Contact Kristin Aldrich for details.
The weekly bulletin will shrink in size THIS Sunday, September 2, and our monthly magazine, The Front Porch, will be your complete, comprehensive resource for most of the information that is repeated every week in the bulletin. You will also find stories of people in our church, a clipable calendar, devotional, humor column, financial stats, and much more.
So pick up a copy of the September issue this weekend at the Welcome Center while supplies last. An online edition of The Front Porch will be available in the coming weeks.
The August 2007 edition of The Front Porch is out! Check out this monthly magazine that shares stories of people in our church as well as all the events information you need for the month. There's a clipable calendar, devotional, humor column, financial stats, and much more. Take it home. Put it on your kitchen table. Put it on your coffee table. Put it in your bathroom. But read it! And become a part of the vibrant stream of life that is Pulpit Rock Church. Copies are available at the Welcome Center while supplies last. Get yours before they're gone!
If you would like to submit a recipe, classified ad, photo of the month, or some news, please contact us via email at frontporch@pulpitrock.com.
On May 29, the Board of Governing Elders and the Pastor/Elder Fellowship made two very important decisions.
The first decision was to accept our Search Team’s recommendation on a position profile for our pastoral staff vacancy, and that profile was for a Preaching and Teaching pastor. This person’s primary responsibility will be in the pulpit, preaching and teaching the Word of God, but he will not be the Senior Pastor.
That led to the second important milestone we reached last week, which was the appointment of Mark Tuggle the senior pastoral leader of Pulpit Rock Church. Mark has been filling the role of pastoral leader of the church in the interim since Armin Sommer’s departure, and he has done an excellent job. Now we can drop the word “interim” from Mark’s title, and as of June 5, we officially gave him the title Senior Pastor.
The Pastor/Elder fellowship has had extended discussion regarding the title “Senior Pastor,” because we are intentionally dividing the traditional functions of a Senior Pastor into two positions: primary leader and primary teacher. While Mark will preach periodically, his primary role is that of pastoral leader – leading the church, casting vision, and making sure that we fulfill our mission. The person who fills our Preaching Pastor position will assume the role of primary teacher on Sundays, and will report to Mark.
This is obviously a very important step for Pulpit Rock Church and for Mark, and it is something for which God has been preparing Mark for the many years. We appreciate your continued prayers, particularly as we now seek the man God has been preparing to become our new Preaching Pastor.
-- Jay Butler, Elder Board Chairman
You talked. We listened.
Thank you to those who attended our last Family Meeting. We heard a lot and are still processing it but here are a few things that we clearly heard.
1. Communication is critically important.
You liked having the family meeting and you want to ensure we continue to step up our two-way communication. To that end, we will be scheduling a family meal and meeting at least quarterly, but we had so much fun at the last one that we're going to have another one on April 29.
In addition, we're working on more ways to enhance our electronic communications to facilitate dialogue, not just sending information. We want to continue to invite feedback, thoughts and ideas to the pastors and elders through conversations and emails.
2. Greater awareness of and access to the elders and pastors.
To help facilitate that, we'll have a pastor or elder regularly available after services so you can get to know us a little better.
3. Prayer.
You also said that you all are praying, but we all need to be praying more. We couldn't agree more, and we're very excited about a new churchwide prayer initiative that Jack Rants, our Community Care Pastor is working on.
If you haven’t yet had your photo taken for the church pictorial directory, you still have one last chance to say cheese! Olan Mills will be coming back for a make-up day on Tuesday, May 8. Don’t wait! Contact Gale Richardson at 598-6767 x. 100 to schedule an appointment.
Due to the weather conditions, the church office has been closed and all evening activities have been cancelled for today, Wednesday, February 28, 2007.
Sorry, no Awana for tonight! Clubbers will need to have both this week and last week's verses prepared for listeners next Wednesday.
The church office and building are closed today, Thursday, Dec. 21. We will re-open after Christmas Break on Tuesday, January 2, 2007.
PLEASE NOTE: The church office will NOT be open duing Christmas Eve Services, Sunday, Dec. 24.
The church office and building are closed today, Wednesday, Dec. 20. We will re-open, weather permitting, tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 21.
Due to the weather, the church office and building has been closed for the day, Wednesday, November 29. Evening Awana Clubs have been cancelled.
Be sure to take note of the Christmas Eve services and other holiday office closures at the end of December. If you're a regular attender of Pulpit Rock Church, we suggest that you attend the 10:45 a.m. Christmas Eve service because the two later services will likely be very crowded!
THANKSGIVING
I trust you had a great Thanksgiving holiday! We enjoyed a great message from Pastor Armin Sommer and took a special offering for our Children's Ministry. Keep an eye on the weblog for an update on that.
CONSTRUCTION NOTICE: Week of Nov. 27
Drivers can expect daytime lane closures on Austin Bluffs Parkway and Nevada Avenue, Monday, Nov. 27 through Friday, Dec. 1, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day. Crews will be placing final striping and other activities.
For updated information, call the project hotline at (719) 531-0492 or visit www.austin-nevada.com. Information is also posted on the City of Colorado Springs Web site,www.springsgov.com, under Transportation Education.
The project remains on schedule for completion by the end of 2006!
We have received numerous requests and questions regarding the website availability of Pastor Armin's impromptu message from Nov. 4/5 on the situation with New Life Church's Pastor Ted Haggard.
Please note that we have had some difficulty getting this message online, but that it is available now. Our Technical Arts Director and I spoke briefly about how it seems someone didn't want that message to get out into the world. It's a good one, friends. Be sure to check out the Pulpit Rock Media Player page to stream the audio.