Now is the Time to Cover our Nation in Prayer!

Join Pastor Jack Hayford for the National Foursquare Church Family Prayer meeting! Connect with the Foursquare family via satellite from hundreds of locations for an essential time of prayer, communion and worship during this important moment in our nation’s history.

All Foursquare churches have been invited to participate, and we will join together to understand God’s direction and extend His Kingdom in our country. Many offices will be decided in this fall’s elections, including that of our nation’s presidency, and we must accept the responsibility of seeking God’s face as His Word directs us. (See 2 Chron. 7:14; 1 Tim. 2:1-4.)

Family Life Church will be hosting this event live on October 26 at 6:00pm, and it will be held at our Washington Street facility.

So few in our day will be a voice for the voiceless—and there are none so voiceless as unborn children.  Our church has a long history of speaking up for the unborn child and for tangibly helping mothers and families in crisis pregnancies.  In the last year we have begun to support CareNet.  For years we have sent monthly support to Aid for Women.  Also, for close to two decades we have participated in Life Chains.

Life Chain is scheduled for Sunday.  There will be chains all across the United States.  Ours will be right outside the Shelia Daniels Christian Academy immediately after our worship service (the chain will start at 12:00 and end at 1:00.  A Life Chain is a silent protest of abortion.  We will stretch out along Washington Street holdings signs with such messages as “Abortion Kills,” “Adoption is the Loving Option,” “Jesus Forgives and Heals” and “El Aborto Mata Niños.”

From a pastoral perspective I urge everyone able to join us for Life Chain.  Young and old can participate.  If your health makes it difficult for you to stand for an hour, bring a lawn chair or borrow a chair from the church.

(Prov 24:11-12  NIV)  11 Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.  12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?  Does not he who guards your life know it?  Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?

PASTOR GEORGE

Sunday, October 5, join us for one hour as we hold a silent “Life Chain” gathering on Washington Street.  We will hold up signs such as, “Adoption, the Loving Option”, “Jesus Forgives and Heals”, and “Abortion Kills Children”.

This event will immediately follow the Sunday morning service.

This annual event takes place nationwide, and Family Life Church has played a part for many years.   To find more about the Life Chain organization, visit their website: http://www.lifechain.net/

A long held vision of planting a Foursquare Church in Tres Cruses, a barrio in the Philippines where a number of our church members were born, was realized in 2007.  At that time, Pastor Gil Barcelo, felt God calling him and his wife, Nora, and their two daughters, Shara and Alika Grace, to move to Tres Cruses to live and work among the people there.

Pastor Gil has officially been appointed by the local Foursquare Church.  Our church has partnered with the new church from the beginning, providing a house for the pastor’s family and monthly support.  Presently the church is meeting in a large barn.  Workers arrive early each Sunday morning to transform the barn into a church!  The church is growing and thriving!

One of the long range goals is to have a new church building built in Tres Cruses.  The property on which the parsonage sits would be ideal.  Towards this end, our church has purchased this property and is in the process of having title transferred to the Foursquare Church in the Philippines.  By God’s grace Family Life Church in Waukegan will partner with this daughter church to build a new, suitable church building.  There is potential to draw not people from Tres Cruses, but from neighboring areas as well

If you would like to contribute to the purchase of the land, please clearly earmark your contribution “Tres Cruses Building Fund.”

October 7th is the last day to register to vote for the upcoming Nov. 4th election.  If you are registered to vote but think you may be out of town on Election Day (e.g. college students, military personnel), make sure you cast an absentee ballot.

If you have any questions about voting, you may call the Illinois Family Institute’s office during normal business hours at (877) 223 7258 or check out on the website: www.illinoisfamily.org

The 2008 Church Picnic was a huge success!  The facilities were very accommodating to our various interests and everyone had fun getting to know each other better.  Special thanks to Bill & Linda Walters for securing the site, Cecilia DeCillo & Zhalom Lingad for organizing details, and the many others who labored long and hard to make the picnic a smashing success!

Photos from the picnic can be seen HERE.

We’ve got the classrooms in which to meet; we’ve got the dedicated teachers ready to teach every age group.  What we need are willing and interested students!   If this describes you or your family, PLAN NOW to make Sunday school a habit this fall!