How are we doing church in Muscatine, Iowa during the Coronavirus crisis?
Here’s a recording of our church service from our worship leader’s home in Muscatine, Iowa
Kids Church Lesson for March 22, 2020
Hi! 👋
For all parents with kids:
Since we aren’t meeting in person this week we won’t have kids church. But your kids can still have a weekly lesson and stay on track by watching this short 15 minute video.
It’s produced by the team that makes our kids curriculum, specifically designed to allow for “distance kids church” during this time!
(Just a note, the audio doesn’t start until about 10 seconds into the video – it seems like it’s not working but just give it a second and it should start playing the audio.)
Enjoy!
Source: https://covid19.ag.org/en/Free-Resources/FR-Kids-Resources/TF-Week-1-Online-God-is-Help
Church During the Coronavirus Crisis
Hello Church,
We live in interesting times! Here are some notes about how we plan to operate during the coronavirus lockdown.
1) For now we will not be holding Sunday services at the church’s building. The Sunday service will be livestreamed online. More info to come soon on how we’ll do that and how to participate.
2) Thursday evening prayer group is still planning to meet.
3) Now is the time for the church in Muscatine to be the church! Let’s be the hands and feet of Christ to as many people as we can. Let’s check on our neighbors, check on our enemies, run errands, get groceries, watch kids, donate food and whatever else we can think of to be helpful to others.
4) Let’s look out for each other! Go to livingwatermuscatine.com/directory to learn how to access the church directory.
5) You can still give your tithes and offerings by giving online: livingwatermuscatine.com/give
6) Finally, remember Christ’s words, “Take courage, I have overcome the world.” Let’s inspire others to COURAGE by EN-COURAGING people, and pointing them towards the Overcomer.
Love,
Ethan
The Path That We Trod
A poem by Joel Dobony
As we look through the stages of the children of God,
We can observe their footsteps and the path they trod.
We can avoid their failures and cling to success,
So we don’t end up in an awful mess.
In the book of Judges we can observe,
The wisdom they forsook and the gods that they served.
Soon, they were on the path to the doom that they deserved.
But, In the midst of affliction they called out to God,
They begged him to free them from the results of the path that they trod.
The Lord forgave them, He didn’t hold a grudge,
And to free them from misery, he sent them a judge.
Free and forgiven, God had heard their plea,
Free from their chains of iniquity.
Their eyes were once again opened and they could see,
I’m sure they were happy, happy as could be.
At once they worshiped and sang praises to God,
He had set them free from the path that they trod.
Once again they forsook wisdom and followed other gods,
The path they so recently deserted, they once again began to trod.
The pattern doesn’t end as they continued to sin,
But each and every time they asked God said You are forgiven.
Often we perceive the Israelites as ignorant or insane,
But if one were to narrate our lives it’d be the same,
Scarred with misery, and marked with pain.
So now let us come and petition to God,
To set us free from the path that we trod.
