We're Moving!!!!

Due to what can only be seen as an act of God, we will be moving our church from our home, into Rush City! That's right, we are moving into the church building formerly known as the Rush City Bible Church. Many of you may know it as the old Covenant Church. It's the one right by the city pool in town.

After a tremendous response to our Easter service, we felt the need to find a building in town that could accommodate more people. After looking and not finding anything, we were suddenly offered the church building in town. I can only believe that God blessed us with this unbelievable opportunity.

We have been hard at work with the 'Restoration' of the building and facilities. We plan on having our first service there this Sunday, May 12. We will still be meeting as 10a. There will be Children's Church and nursery available.

On Saturday, Mat 11 we will be offering free coffee, water, hot dogs and treats during the Rush City all-city garage sale. Stop by and see us!

Movie Night

All students in grades 6-12 are invited to a movie night at Restoration Church on Sunday, April 28. There will be popcorn and other treats. Join us and bring your friends. 630p until about 9. Movie title to be determined.

Tonight the night for a free meal

It's the last Wednesday of the month and we will be at the high school in Rush City for a free meal. Join us for spaghetti and meat sauce. There's not preaching or teaching, just a free meal. There will be one more in the school (last Wednesday in May) and  we hope to continue this into the summer. We would like feedback on the how's and where's. We're thinking maybe the park and BBQ. What do you think?

Easter Blessing

After much preparation and anticipation, we are pleased to announce that the Easter service was a terrific success! We counted nearly 60 people in church that day. Moving into the Rush City community center was just the thing we needed. It fit us all well and worked in every way. God blessed us with good conversation and great Holy Spirit moments. Thank you to all who attended and encouraged. I am extremely happy with everything that went on. You might even say, "Happy, happy, happy!" (Some of you will know what I mean by that!) This week we will be back in our regular location and we hope to see many of our Easter visitors there. God is so good.

By the way, we served 117 people at our last community meal. A new record!

be. the. Church

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a new church, and I've come to the conclusion that what we have traditionally thought of when we hear the word 'church' has little to do with what it means to be the church. In other words, we need to look more deeply into our faith to understand what Jesus meant when he started the church. It had nothing to do with a building, or denominations, or fundraisers or anything else that we attach to our understanding of church. You see, the church is the people. It wasn't until several hundred years after Jesus's resurrection that a building was even considered. This tradition started with people's desire to honor the apostles so they would build statues of them. When they did this they thought it would be a good idea to have a building surrounding the statue in order to gather together. These became known as churches. From that point on it is clear that we have given up on the idea of what church really means.

Our goal is to be the church. When people hear about Restoration Church we want them to think of the people, not a building somewhere. We want to make known the love and forgiveness that Christ has to offer. We don't want to be known as just another building on a corner, or even that church out in the middle of nowhere.

The free community meal that we offer on the last Wednesday of each month is an example of what it means to be the church. Our goal is not to draw attention to us, but to draw attention to Jesus. It's not about making people aware of Restoration Church, it's about fulfilling Jesus's command to feed the hungry, physical hunger and spiritual hunger.

Join us on Wednesday, March 27th at the Rush City High School. We'll be serving a free hot meal from 430 until 7pm. Hope to see you there.