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The Jesus Adventure: Worship FULL Followers

The Jesus Adventure series has established a pattern for our lives as followers of Jesus: Called → Equipped → Sent → Restored . To embed that pattern into our lives, requires consistent and persistent discipline of receiving God’s grace. This grace is poured out for us in Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. From now until Easter we will explore the discipline of worship as a primary means by which God delivers his grace, his unlimited and undeserved love, into our lives. We come together regularly to praise, listen, pray, and to experience the real presence of God in our lives. In so doing, we become Worship FULL Followers of Jesus. Sunday, March 3rd: We focus on Luke 9:33, "It is good that we are here" . The Transfiguration of Jesus sets the stage for learning, and relearning, the power of worship in our lives as followers of Jesus. In worship, God brings us into his presence to grow in our faith so we can go back into our everyday lives empowered to God’s beacons o...

Ladies and Gentlemen Start Your Engines!

St. Luke’s had the pleasure of hosting the SLLS 500! This event is held every other year for first and second grade students. The SLLS 500 is a miniature version of the Daytona 500. Students made their own race cars out of cardboard boxes and participated in race car themed events. In preparation of race day, the teachers used a racing theme with every activity in the classroom. For example, in their STEAM project, students were paired in groups and put their critical thinking skills to the test to build a race track out of limited materials. Students were able to truly understand the meaning of teamwork. Just like in NASCAR racing, it isn’t just about the driver, you rely on your entire team to cross the finish line. The theme verse for the SLLS 500 was Hebrews 12:1b “ Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” The students weren’t just taught about racing and teamwork, they were able to learn how to run with endurance in the race of life. This was instille...

Women's Retreat 2019

99 women attended the St. Luke's Women's Retreat this past weekend in Daytona. The women explored the Book of Esther focusing on Esther 4:14 . 14  For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this ? See what the women who attended had to say about their time together spent growing in God's word: "Looking around the 'Atlantic Room' at all those beautiful women, I realized how incredibly blessed we are. The caring, loving and accepting of each other, the presence of God...was absolutely palpable ♡" - Lisa Thompson "It was such a wonderful weekend!! I can't wait for next year!!" - Natalie Beckett "It was an amazing weekend...Thank you for such an inspiring, spirit filled weekend!" - Wanda Evans "Thank you for a wonderful weekend...