Last night our worship committee met to discuss where we are going with worship for Ainsworth. We began to discuss what might be some themes that we would work on for the months coming up. As we did this we decided to focus on the next 5 months certain themes that might be where God is leading us. I thought I would share some of the themes with readers and if you have any suggestions I would appreciate hearing them.

I just finished a sermon series on Why Church and focused on community, being around real people, remembering that we are called to be in service to others, and being a mentor to help grow disciples. The last sermon ended on World Communion Sunday October 3rd. October 10th we will be celebrating Children's Sabbath. We will have the children sing, watch a video on VBS, have a baptism, and talk about re-membering those who have no voice. October 17th we will have our youth group talk about their mission trip to Omaha working with the Open Door Mission. October 24th we will be having a mission moment by our Mission committee. The 31st we will have a speaker do a brief presentation from UMW on mission. We will also take time to have families list members who have been called home in the past year and will end the service reading their names and having one of the youth take a chime bell and ring it after each name.

November we will focus on thanksgivings and blessings. I am in the process of picking scriptures that I will be using. The foci will be thanksgiving for ourselves, our families, and our community. On November 21st we will do a hanging of the greens service following our late service. We will have a carry in lunch and family activities. November 24th is the ecumenical service.

Advent we will be looking at the ABC's of Advent. Await with purpose, Be a blessing, Cast your light. One of the Sundays will be the children's program and that evening will be a choir cantata. Christmas eve will be focusing on Go to Bethlehem.

January will be epiphany, baptism of the Lord, honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. February will focus on the coping with difficulties, grief, loneliness. We will be looking at what we can depend on during those times of our life that are challenges.

March 9th is Ash Wednesday. We will be doing a sermon series that will hopefully tie in with a bible study. Right now I am reflecting on Adam Hamilton's 24 hours that changed the world or Borg and Crossan's The Last Week.

I have been having an exciting time with our worship committee and their enthusiasm for being not only into the word but wanting to touch people with our worship experience. Again I would invite people to be with us as we do our worship on kbrbradio.com. Keep us in prayer that all that we do glorifies God.