Weekly UPdate 8/23/26

Welcome to the weekly update 👋 This is your one-stop spot for everything happening in our church family. From kids to adults, small groups to special events, here's how you can get connected over the next seven days.New Here? We'd Love to Connect With You Sunday, August 23rd Prayer Team - Meets in the Family Room at 9:30a (anyone can join) 10:00am Worship Gathering - Join us for Sunday service in person or online. Kids Ministry - Age-specific programming during the service each Sunday Pizza with the Pastor: Already registered? We’ll see you after service in the conference room. Upcoming Events Back-To-School Bash, August 30th following the morning worship service. Make plans to hang out with the Real Life family after church for hot-dogs, hamburgers and fun! Be watching for information on lifegroups right here in the Weekly Update as school kicks off our groups will be close behind! We’ve got a pretty big building project we’re getting ready to tackle—and we’re going to do it a yard at a time. I’ll tell you more soon. Are you New at Real Life? Take the next step before midnight tonight. Join us for Pizza with the Pastor—a relaxed meal where you'll hear the story of Real Life from pastor Corey, have time to ask questions and discover how you can get connected. We'd love to save you a seat.Register for Pizza 🍕 Here Join us Sunday, August 30th, right after worship for our Real Life Back-to-School Bash! Real Life has grown this summer, and we don’t just want to recognize familiar faces —we want to actually know the people God has placed around us. After all, if we’re going to be formed together in His Kingdom, we need relationships with the people in it. So stick around after church for lunch, water, games, and a little friendly chaos. We’ll have hamburgers and hot dogs, chips, watermelon and plenty of water, plus a water inflatable for the younger kids, water balloons, and some seriously wet kickball or wiffle ball. There’s nothing complicated about it. Eat together. Play together. Laugh together. Get to know somebody you don’t know yet. Whether you’ve been part of Real Life for years or you just found us this summer, we’d love for you to stay and spend some time with us. This Week's Message "The Slow Fade" Pastor Corey • Revelation 2:12-17, Numbers 22-25, 31:16 Most of us don’t wake up one day and decide to reject God. The danger is usually quieter than that. In the final week of iDols, we’ll look at Jesus’ warning to the church in Pergamum and the strange story of Balaam and Israel. Together they show us how divided allegiance can grow slowly—through the things we tolerate, justify, and eventually begin to see as normal. Idolatry doesn’t require us to reject God. Sometimes it simply asks us to make room for something else beside Him. Can’t be here in person on Sunday?Join Us Online Daily Message Moments email Get daily inspiration delivered right to your inbox weekday mornings at 6am to help you look more like Jesus every day.Get The Daily Message Moments Email Watch last week’s sermon 👇Subscribe To Our Podcast Women’s Ministry LifeGroups beginning in September There will be a Wednesday morning & evening group - more information can be found by subscribing to the Women’s Ministry Posts.Find Out More Here Our StudentLife Ministry meets on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 - 7:30p. They currently meet in the Welcome Center but will transition to the Fellowship room once that is completed. Do you have kids involved in Student Life? Keep up with our student ministry; get important updates, event info, schedule changes and more by subscribing to our StudentLife posts!Keep up with everything our students are doing Every week during the school year our youth walk into Student Life carrying school pressure and big questions about who they are. For a few hours, they enter a place where they are known and reminded that they matter to God. And the first thing they do is sit around the table and share a meal. But it’s more than just feeding their bodies, it’s providing them with a sense of belonging. As they eat they talk, they laugh, they share... and they grow closer together. You don’t have to be in the room to make an impact. You can prepare a meal, join the meal rotation, or give money to help others prepare the meal. When you feed students, you’re not just filling plates—you’re creating space for God to work. Use the link below to provide a meal or contribute financially this school year.Help Create a Place Through a Plate Prayer Team: This may be the most important thing that happens on Sunday mornings. Our prayer team meets at 9:30 in the Family Room and prays for YOU, the Sunday service, our volunteers, staff, guests and for transformation as we strive to look more like Jesus ever day. If you have a prayer request please let us know! For more information email Ray Blanket Ministry Team: Our blanket ministry provides blankets as a physical display of God’s love when needed most. Blankets are donated to those in the hospital or baby blankets are delivered to Branches Pregnancy Centers and other organizations. If you’d like to help make blankets or want info email Jessica Pyle. If you’d like to stop and pray over the blankets we have they are in the Family Room Care Team: Our Care Team meets with individuals following the service who are seeking prayer or wanting to take their next step with Jesus. If you’re good with people and have a heart to pray with and walk with people in that moment when God is stirring in their heart this might be a great ministry opportunity for you. For more information email Terry Cleaning Team: This team helps us create a clean and welcoming environment for our guests and regulars who come to the building each week. A clean church shows our thankfulness for what God has provided and removes stumbling blocks to those we welcome to worship every Sunday and throughout the week. If you’d like to join this group email Corey and we’ll get you the details. We’ve got to fill space for one of our cleaning volunteers for the rest of the year due to a coming surgery. If you’ve got some time and could help fill the schedule on Sept 27 and Nov 15 we’d love to have you! Let Corey know if you can cover the dates for us. Cleaning Schedule: August: 23 - Jehners 30 - Corey Landreth September: Pam Kretz Pyles 🛄 Hungry? We have a FOOD PANTRY: The Food Pantry is available to anyone at Real Life who may need help with a meal or more between paychecks or when struggling for various reasons. If you’d like to pick up a meal or two (or want to know more about this ministry) let pastor Corey know after the service. Community Prayer Submit your prayer request here Your generosity helps fund the mission and ministries God has called us to here at Real Life. Thank You for giving! New to our community? No pressure. Today, just be our guest.Give to God at Real Life Here Fellowship Room Update: We are down to a few projects left to complete. Masonry work on East Wall Painting the newly completed drywall work Drop ceiling removed in South part of room Drop ceiling installed in South part of room and along West wall New carpet is being chosen - lead time is 6-7 weeks New base moulding installed Stage built and sound/video installed We appreciate your continued financial and physical support as we work to finish this space out so that ministry that leads to transformation can begin to take place in this previously unused part of the building. Stay Connected 📩 Subscribe to this Collection to get these updates delivered directly to your inbox. 📸 Follow us on Facebook and YouTube 💬 Pastoral care or questions? Connect with us here. Real Life Stats: Last Sunday’s Attendance: 135 Last Sunday’s Giving: $3100 Avg. YTD Attendance: 124 Avg. YTD Giving: $3,177 2026 Weekly Budget: $3,077 Services: Sundays at 10:00 AM 9110 SW Haverhill Rd, Augusta, KS 67010 See you soon ☀️