Weekly UPdate 9/20/26

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!New Here? Click Here! This Sunday, September 20th: 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 Upcoming Events: Battle of the Praise Bands at Gold Fest: September 25, from 6–10 p.m. at District Stadium, behind District 142 at 142 N. Main St. in downtown El Dorado. Bring a blanket for the turf or a chair for the street, and enjoy an evening of worship and community. All are welcome! HAVERHILL ROAD CLOSURE: closed to through traffic EACH DIRECTION from 5-7:30 am/pm every day from Sept 12 - Oct 19. I need to apologize: Last Sunday, after pointing everyone to myreallife.faith and telling you to check out the message notes for Adonai it turns out that I forgot to publish them 🤦‍♂️ - they were all there, all ready, but I had forgotten to schedule them to go live on Sunday at 9am like I usually do. They are live now and I’m sorry if you went there and found the notes for El Shaddai instead of Adonai. There’s a Place for You God uses spiritual disciplines to help us look like Jesus and in the process, form us into a family. When we study, serve and give we’re worshipping God (giving glory to Him), we’re growing personally (to look more like Jesus) and the results of those disciplines benefit others (for their good). Disciplines like serving and giving make us look more like Jesus, and they shape the lives of the people we serve. When you give financially and serve at Real Life you’re helping students find a friend and safe space to ask questions and grow in faith. You’re helping kids not just learn about Jesus but learn how to get along with others in the church. You’re providing a place where a babies first experience with God is someone besides their parents who is loving them. You’re helping people who come in person or join us online find a place to belong, to explore faith and in some cases, find a family like they’ve never known. That’s why we always want to have a place for you to serve at Real Life and opportunities for you to give. Service isn’t just about getting a job done and giving financially isn’t just about getting the bills paid—these are disciplines close to the heart of God, and He uses them to form us and others. If we want to help every person possible, it takes every person present. Where might God be inviting you to step in or step up?Serve at Real LifeGive at Real Life A Yard at a Time Last Sunday we introduced our next building project: replacing the carpet throughout much of Real Life. We’re going to tackle it a yard at a time. The project works out to about $32 per square yard, and we’ll purchase and install the carpet section by section as funds are available. We’re starting with the Fellowship and Family rooms. If you’d like to help, you can give toward one yard, five yards, ten yards—or any amount. Every gift helps us improve the spaces where people gather, worship, learn, build relationships, and follow Jesus together. You’ve given enough to cover 52 square yards! A yard at a time, we can cover a lot of ground.Help Us Cover A Lot Of Ground This Week's Message "Abba" Pastor Corey • Galatians 4:1-7 This Sunday in The Names of God, we’ll look at Abba — The God Who Brings Us Home. Jesus first uses the word Abba in Gethsemane, calling out to His Father as He faces the cross. Then Paul tells us that through Jesus, the Spirit teaches us to cry that same name: “Abba, Father.” Jesus did not simply come to forgive us. He came to bring us into His relationship with the Father — not as slaves trying to earn our place, but as sons and daughters who belong in the family. We’ll also look at the story of the prodigal sons and ask what it means to live in the Father’s house without ever really knowing the Father’s heart. 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 message 👇Subscribe To Our Podcast Lifegroups happening this week: Women’s Wednesday morning group meets in the Welcome Center at 10am. Will be continuing their study through the book, Heaven Women’s Wednesday evening group meets in the Family Room at 6:30pm. Will be studying Friends and Sisters BEMA group meets in the Conference Room at 6:30pm - anyone can join Women’s Ministry If you are interested in Women’s Ministry Events please subscribe to the Women’s Ministry Posts. You’ll be automatically informed each time a new post is made available so you’ll never miss a Women’s event... if you check your email 😉Subscribe 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: September: 20 - Tristen Moore 27 - ?? - Could you fill in for Erin who had surgery? Also need to cover Nov 15. October: 04 - Crisps Jehners 🛄 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 Pray that God would stir hearts to serve to help our kids learn about Jesus on their level, our students build their own faith and our church be a place where God forms people into full developed followers of Jesus. Pray for God’s provision as we work to finish some of the projects still undone around our building. Pray for safety for everyone who comes through our doors. For the ministries that happen here each week, and for Real Life to continue being a place where relationships are formed, people are known and loved, and where we learn to follow Jesus more faithfully together. 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: Would you like to help? If you’re able to help with the masonry work, or hanging ceiling grid and want to just come down and work on it when you have time we’d love the help! Talk to Corey about what you can do and when and we’ll get it set up. 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 carpet installed Electrical fixed in South part of room 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. 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