Weekly UPdate

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 9th 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 Staff Meeting following morning worship Upcoming Events Pizza with the Pastor, August 23rd following morning worship (find our more below) 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! Note from Pastor Corey: Wasn’t it amazing last Sunday seeing 21 kids from VBS leading us in worship through the songs they learned? We actually had 27 kids on our biggest evening during VBS but vacations and other plans meant some of the kids weren’t able to make it on Sunday. But here’s something else I noticed Sunday, there were more kids in the audience! The 21 on stage weren’t all the kids we have. I don’t know if you are aware but our nursery (birth - 3) has been in the double digits 7 out of the last 9 weeks, that’s amazing! But it’s also challenging. With more people, especially very little people, one adult volunteer can no longer manage even with help from our students. Amber just informed me that she needs 4 NEW volunteers to keep the nursery running and safe. Serving in this capacity is not a life-sentance or even an every-Sunday obligation. But if you can love babies, change a diaper, and want our littlest people to have a positive view of church from the very beginning of their life we’d love to have you on the team.Serve at Real Life Are you New at Real Life? Take the next step. 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 This Week's Message "Good Thing - Wrong Throne" Pastor Corey • Jeremiah 2:11-13, Numbers 21:4-9, 2 Kings 18:1-4 God’s people did not merely abandon Him; they replaced Him. They walked away from the fountain of living water and exhausted themselves digging broken cisterns that could never hold what they needed. The bronze serpent demonstrates how subtly that can happen. God had commanded Moses to make it, and God had used it to bring healing. But generations later, Israel was burning offerings to it. Something God had once used became something the people trusted and worshiped in God’s place. Most personal idols develop the same way. They are often good gifts—family, relationships, achievement, comfort, control, possessions, traditions, or even ministry—that gradually receive expectations and authority they were never meant to carry. 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 Are you interested in Women’s Ministry events? We’re working on a system, much like this Weekly Update, where you can discover what’s going on in the Women’s Ministry (and soon more) in one place and even get emails when a new post has been uploaded.Find Out More Here Every week during the school year, students in grades 6–12 walk into Student Life carrying more than backpacks. They bring school pressure, shifting friendships, and big questions about who they are. For a few hours, they enter a place where they are known, welcomed, fed, and reminded that they matter to God. The meal is a small part of the night, but it helps create that environment. Around the table, students slow down, connect, and begin to belong. It also removes a barrier for students who might otherwise stay home, while giving leaders more space to focus on relationships and discipleship. You don’t have to teach or lead a group to make an impact. You can prepare a meal, join the meal rotation, or give toward a meal, or many. When you feed students, you’re not just filling plates—you’re helping create a place where they are seen, relationships grow, and faith takes root. 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. Cleaning Schedule: August: 09 - Erin Burden 16 - Jim and Kathy Crisp 23 - Jehners 30 - Corey Landreth 🛄 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: You may know that we’ve been working on the Fellowship Room. It’s a 24’x60’ large space that will serve several functions; It will be a large group space for our LifeKids, It will also be home to StudentLife our ministry to 6-12th graders, and it will be a space for church dinners and events like Pizza with the Pastor, Discover Real Life and LifeGroups. We are down to a few projects left to complete. Masonry work on East Wall Painting the newly completed drywall work Drop ceiling work in South part of room and along West wall New carpet is being chosen and could be here within the month New base moulding installed Stage built and sound/video installed Ultimately we’d like to finish this room out with multiple TV screens and a serving area along the North wall as well as space/gaming systems for our students. 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. PS. The carpet going into this room (and our Family Room) will eventually replace all the carpet in the whole building, yes, even the auditorium once that East wall is removed and the room enlarged. Because carpet patterns and style do change we’ll be facing a clock to be able to make sure we can get enough carpet to do the building in a timely manner. More on that later. 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: 153 Last Sunday’s Giving: $3,172.85 VBS Offering: $381 (for curtains in the Fellowship Room) Avg. YTD Attendance: 123 Avg. YTD Giving: $3,234.59 2026 Weekly Budget: $3,077.00 Services: Sundays at 10:00 AM 9110 SW Haverhill Rd, Augusta, KS 67010 See you soon ☀️