Two Videos This week!

Friends of Shalom,

We're less than two weeks out from our first meeting and I couldn't be more excited! God is bringing people together to help in a variety of ways. My daughter Ellie has decided to join our core team and help with leading us in song! The staff at All Saints Academy have been so welcoming and are excited for us to use the chapel. Others have stepped up to help us with our sound and with coffee (a requirement for church planting in the PNW)!

This week I put together a video sharing some more around what our meetings will be like. We aren't starting a full church service yet, so I felt like this needed some more explanation. We filmed it inside the building. Check it out.

Also, here's the weekly word. This week I shared some thoughts from Isaiah 25:1-9 which gives a picture of the day when God will make all wrongs right. This is a powerful text to bring to bear on our hearts as we long for shalom in Israel/Palestine.

Please continue to pray for our first meeting on 10/28!

For the Shalom of Kitsap,

Rob and Beth

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