Following the kite flying, we will be meeting at the Lions Club Park (one mile outside of St. Croix Falls on Hwy 87 north) for a hot dog barbecue.  The park is located right on the St. Croix River, so you can bring your fishing pole if you like to fish.  The BBQ will be from  Noon until 2:00PM. 

Plan to come!...Let's go fly a kite!! 

If you are unable to come for the kite flying, please come for the barbecue.  Sunshine and warm temperatures are being forecast.  It should be a good time! 

There have been 17 women studying the book of Daniel over the past 10 weeks.  We have two weeks left to this amazing study.  After the first lesson we all made the commitment to become people of integrity in overwhelmingly enticing surroundings.  But we don't want to stop there.  This Lifeway study by Beth Moore has been teaching us that God doesn't mean for us to have integrity just for integrity's sake.  He wants us to have integrity so we can be trusted with responsibility.  Christ didn't set us free just for freedom's sake.  He sets us free so we can get out there and do what He's called us to do.  The study has been teaching us that Daniel represents more than character.  He represents a life God can use wildly in the worst of circumstances.  Daniel's intense relationship with God should be our example.  We should want what Daniel had.  We should want to be people God can use to show Himself MIGHTY! 

In Christ,  Julie

We welcome and covet prayer for CenterPoint Church. We invite you to join us in prayer throughout the week for God's continued direction and blessing, and in FAITH seek God for His provision to meet our immediate and long term needs to build His church.

A very good friend of ours sent the following reflection written by Horace Bushnell some time ago, in the 1800s.  It has been very meaningful to us, and we would like to share it with everyone.  We are learning to trust God more and more through every circumstance of our life.

"The simple thought of a life which is to be the unfolding of a Divine plan is too beautiful, too captivating, to suffer one indifferent or heedless moment. Living in this manner, every turn of your experience will be a discovery to you of God, every change a token of His fatherly counsel. Whatever obscurity, darkness, trial, suffering, falls upon you; your defeats, losses, injuries; your outward state, employment, relations; what seems hard, unaccountable, severe, or, as nature might say, vexations – all these you will see are parts of constitutive elements in God’s beautiful and good plan for you, and, as such, are to be accepted with a smile. Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.”       Horace Bushnell

Isaiah 42:16 says, "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth.  These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them." 

Thank you, Dick, for listening to the Lord.  It has been and continues to be quite a ride!

In Him,  Julie

Sunday, May 18th, marked our First Preview Service, which was held at the Holiday Inn Express. The owner graciously opened up the Conference Room for us to meet..... at no charge. Once more, we see God's favor as we seek to have our needs met. A sweet, peaceful and encouraging spirit reigned over that service and Pastor Dick gave a challenging word from the Book of Revelation and the Church of Philadelphia. The foundation of FAITH...its importance...keeps coming back to me. Hebrews 11:6, "Without FAITH it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him", really affirmed the importance of FAITH. Our relationship with God is largely determined in our Faith. We must believe He exists and that He is exactly who He reveals Himself to be in Scripture. Without this kind of Faith you cannot please God. We must believe He will respond to us as we earnestly seek Him. It can be easy to substitute religious activity for true Faith. We can claim we are being "good stewards" of our resources, when in fact we are walking by sight and not by Faith....Hebrews 11:1 "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see". We can actually refuse to do what God tells us unless all the resources are in place first. Faith has to do with our relationship...not our circumstances. Nothing is more secure or certain than that which we entrust to God. When God trusts us with a task that seems impossible, the only thing preventing it from coming to pass is our lack of Faith / or disobedience. God will lead us to do things that are impossible in our strength, but He will grant us victory as we step out in Faith. God wants to do the impossible through our lives. All He requires is FAITH and obedience. We certainly have experienced what seems or appears impossible factors in relation to our vision of planting CenterPoint Church. FAITH in our God of the impossible is our answer!!!

This was our first try. We were able to collect a LOT of valuable information that will make our next Preview Service even better. It was great seeing you all. What a great ride we’re on! But remember, don’t get too comfortable… you never know when things are going to change…

Here we are looking at our first Preview Service this Sunday, May 18th!

These are the details for this Sunday, May 18th: The service will be held in the conference room at the Holiday Inn Express on Highway 8 in St. Croix Falls.10:00AM. The service will begin at ll be easiest to park behind the building and come through a door that will be open to the conference room. However, there will be  greeters posted at both entrances to the room to welcome you and any guests you may have invited. There will be Children's Church after the worship time for children of all ages. If that’s an area where you feel led to help, contact Julie for more info.

If you’re not already serving somewhere, make sure to contact me or Julie (715/294-1833) to find an area to serve in. We will need help in setting the chairs in rows, and then putting everything back the way we found it after the service. Remember… every member a minister. We were created to serve. We’re not complete without it.