Campus Update for April 28, 2006

Sun Run Report

Report from Pastor Jim.

Thank you so much for your prayers and overall encouragement. Our Creekside Sun Run Team finished well and we rejoice we could represent each of you and God.

14 of our team finished the event. 1 person was sick and could not participate. There were three other Creeksiders who participated. Look for some photos on our website. You might have seen the news coverage, but this was the first time ever that the 50,000 mark was broken. 50,700+ actually participated.

I know this is an early invite, but 2007 Sun Run is coming. Wouldn’t it be thrilling to have a huge portion of Creekside along with our friends participate?

You’re the first to hear this, but because of our team effort and some bubbling enthusiasm, our joy and service may spread!

Our conference president and treasurer, Gordon Pifher and Michael Wixwat, are interested in taking this event BC wide.

Imagine having hundreds of people on a BC Team, from all across BC!

Imagine having each one sponsored to help a really worthy cause in addition to what the Sun Run already does.

Imagine having a grand concert on Sunday night celebrating the overall accomplishment and handing the charity a cheque for thousands of dollars!

Imagine even bigger if you like. Higher than the highest human thought is God’s ideal for his children. None of this is reality, but it could be.

The Revelators

Rob and Ken (Creekside Langley people) have formed a band. They have an apocalyptic emphasis in their music. If you’d like to hear them, come to the House of James in Abbotsford on April 28, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. They’re in concert and would love to have your support.

A New Series Begins

We start a new series this week called “True For You”. We want to start some discussions around key questions about truth:

Here is the series summary:

How do you know whether the sun will rise tomorrow? How do you know that you are not dreaming now? How do you know that your teacher has not been possessed by aliens? And how would you know if he had? In fact, how do you know that anything is true?

Where do I find truth? How do I decide if something is true? And how does this apply in my life?

Be sure to check it out for yourself and invite your friends. We know this series could start some pretty deep discussions.

Coming Events

May 10, 2006

This is the day we check the receipts in our “high tech money manager” (remember the brown bag?) May 13 we will hear each other’s stories about this.

May 27, 2006

Hassan Qazilbash will become Creekside’s newest member! Hassan is of Muslim background and will be the first Muslim Christian member of Creekside. How cool is that?

Sabbath morning is going to be a huge God honoring celebration at the North shore campus.

Blessings and joy,

Jim and Colin