A Message from Head of School, Tom Argersinger
Dear Parents and Friends of CCS,
I hope this Parent News finds you walking closely with Jesus and trusting Him for everything!
Colossians 4:2 (CSB) tells us to “devote ourselves to prayer and to stay alert in it with Thanksgiving”.
The Amplified Bible says it this way: “Be persistent and devoted to prayer, being alert and focused in your prayer life with an attitude of Thanksgiving”.
This wonderful verse can serve as a worthy backdrop for considering the importance of what we will be practicing on the evening of November 8th at King's Crossing, as we join together for the Evening of Prayer and Worship.
For those of you who have never been involved with an event like this before, the agenda is very simple. Our purpose for being there is to meet with God, both together and personally. We will begin with some instructions as to how the evening might go, and then we will enter into a time of corporate worship.
I will have the privilege of sharing from the word of God briefly, and then we will transition to a time of individual prayer at some stations that we will have set up for that purpose.
In general, this time is designed to be interactive, where the participants have freedom to simply remain seated throughout the entire time and encounter God that way, or get up and move about the room.
For some of us, praying as we move can even be more effective to help us focus on the content of our prayers and upon God himself.
I know that the worship leaders for the event, Erin Keezer and Hannah Osterbye have been hard at work and much in prayer as they are preparing for this event, so let's join them. Praying that they would be anointed by the Lord to lead us into His presence, and for all us participants as well, that God might meet with us and we might be touched in a special way by Him.
The Evening of Prayer and Worship will start promptly at 6:30 and we'll finish by 8:15 - unless God is moving in a particularly special way, in which case we would release people that need to leave and then continue in prayer as God directs.
Perhaps the most important thing as we prepare for this event is to remember this important Biblical principle: Our privilege as followers of Jesus is to create space for God to work, expect him to work, and then praise him, whatever he does.
In this way, we can be at peace even in our lament and in our petitions to our most wonderful God.
May He clear the way for you to attend, and may He meet you right where you need to be met so that He can fill you, heal you, and give you peace.
For CCS and the Kingdom,
Tom