This week we welcome our new teacher, Clara Bastidas, with her first teaching for Simple Churches.

In Exodus 32, Israel gets tired of waiting for Moses to come down from Mount Sinai. These are people who had walked through the sea, eaten bread from heaven and heard God's own voice, and they ask Aaron to make them a god. Clara looks at how they tried to add a golden calf to their worship of the Lord. She asks what our own golden calves look like today: careers, bank accounts and carefully built plans for security. She connects the story to Psalm 106 and to Jesus' parable of the wedding feast in Matthew 22, where the invited guests "made light of it" and went off to their farms and businesses. She ends where the story points, with Jesus, who pleads our case the way Moses pleaded for Israel and brings us back into the worship we were made for.

Welcome to our Annual Church Retreat!

A highlight of our church family since 2006.  If you've never before come - plan on coming this year. Good friends, good food, Jesus. What else do you need? 

And a huge, special welcome to those new to our church or those who have never attended before.  It is an instant way to dive into the deep end of our broader simplechurch family.  

Registration is now open!

As mentioned in the past weeks' newsletters and at CityWide, we need a few additional volunteers to help provide childcare support at our larger network gatherings.  Chanida will continue to provide the core support, but we need others to help on a time-to-time basis. 

If we can get 4-5 additional volunteers approved, it's likely you'll only be needed 1-2x per year. 

Approved Volunteers Needed
If you are willing, please fill out the application below and send it back to Andy (email address is in the application). He'll then get you a Criminal Record letter that you can take to the RCMP for a free check.