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Girls Who Love God!

July 29, 2010 Leave a Comment

We are convinced more than ever that when women gather for CommonGround…they are girls who love God.   Only God could bring over 100 women from 13 different churches together on a hot July evening to help kids they will never meet.  

Only God.

We were blown away by the outpouring of love you showed Friday night.  130 backpacks (yep, 130!) filled with school supplies were donated that evening to St.Mary’s Back to School Fair.   Unbelievable.   CommonGround girls, you continue to make me look toward heaven with an overflowing heart of gratitude to thank our Father for you. 

Big Shout out to the following churches in attendance:  Cornerstone, Calvary Baptist Church, Memorial Church of Christ, Revival Tabernacle, Cross Pointe, St. Thomas, Connection Church,  Rivers of Living Water, Metro South, Northridge, St. Mary’s, and Geneva Presbyterian!    Leaving our differences at the door and gathering in unity to worship the One True Living God! 

See you in October, girlfriends!!

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Projectbackpack in full swing!

July 8, 2010 Leave a Comment

God never fails us.  About ten days before each CommonGround event, we start to get the sense that He is up to something unique with the upcoming event.   God never fails us. (Trust us, we’ve failed him plenty…but He never fails us!)

He is starting to perk some bubbalicious excitement around here…and we love it!!  

Christa Alberts, our CG worship leader, shows off two of the backpacks dropped off today. We can’t wait to have all of the CG girls from all different churches worshiping One God on July 16th.   This is #5 for us !    Who would have thought?  Only God. :)

There is still plenty of time to go out and grab a backpack (please pay for it…stealing…would probably not be so cool :) ) and fill it with these six items:  ruler, glue sticks, notebook, 24pk of crayons, pencils and colored pencils.

We’ll be taking these backpacks to St. Mary’s Community Outreach.  They’ll be giving them to kids who attend their “BACK to SCHOOL”  fair in August. 

As someone put it so clearly earlier…”Every kid deserves to start school with school supplies.”  

Yep, we agree.  

Even more than that — every kid deserves the opportunity to know that Jesus loves them.  By meeting this need CommonGround girls can help show them.  

Thank you girls for taking the love of Jesus from the pews to the pavement.   A life of service to the Lord is about the coolest thing anyone can do with their life.

(photo credit: Christie Martin)

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project backpack

June 25, 2010 1 Comment

Happy Friday to our all commonground girls!  I hope you have some fantastic plans this weekend.  At the very least…get those pink toes outside and enjoy the sun (bring an umbrella, too!).

I was pretty excited today when I saw that we have our FIRST backpack donated for our outreach spotlight on July 16th.  Very, Very cool!    I have heard through the momsknowbest grapevine that after July 4th stores will have an abundant array for backpacks to choose from. 

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Outreach Focus for July 16 event: backpackproject!

June 9, 2010 1 Comment

 To say we are excited to announce our next outreach focus would be an understatement.

We contacted St. Mary’s Community Outreach Center in Wayne, Mi and have the amazing opportunity to be a part of something they do each year.   Check this out:

In August, St. Mary’s hosts a Back To School Fair.  The purpose for this fair is to help children in need get ready for school.   They provide each pre-registered child the following:  hair cut, dental exam, school physical, and a backpack loaded with school supplies.  Everything a child needs to be ready to go back to school.  

Is that stinkin’ cool or what?  Several churches from the surrounding communities come together to make this happen.   After connecting to the people leading this outreach at St. Mary’s it was clear that this was a focus where CG girls could show God’s love for these kids in a very practical way.  To show God’s love outside the church walls.   

Girls…check this out…

On July 16th, when we gather together to celebrate God at our next CG gathering we will be collecting the following:

  • Backpack (for preschool – 6th grade) filled with:
  • 12pk pencils, notebook, colored pencils, 24pk crayons, glue sticks and a ruler!

Our hope is to supply enough backpacks for every child who comes to the back to school fair in August.  

This is the time to get your women’s ministry, work peeps, small groups, youth groups, children’s ministry, card clubs, (you know…the people you do life with) involved with this very special project.   

We can’t wait to see what God does through this very special outreach. 

Amazing things happen when we trust God like crazy…will you join us? 

We love you girls!

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