Organizational Meeting

The second official gathering of Bread of Life Lutheran Church will be its Organizational Meeting. Any and all are invited: those interested in a new church and those who are simply curious. This will be a non-threatening, no pressure meeting designed simply to gauge public interest in a new church in Georgetown and to answer questions.

Here is the info

When: Sunday, January 21st @ 3 PM
Where: Scott County Public Library. Click this link for a map.

Birth: Community Christmas Eve Service

Birth: A Community Christmas Eve Service

Our "core group" eagerly anticipates its first Christmas Eve Service. As this will be our first worship service, we will be celebrating both the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ and the birth of a church.

Do you live in the Scott County area, and are you looking for a church in which to spend Christmas Eve? We invite you to attend.

Here's the info:

When: 7:30

Where: Georgetown Best Western conference room. Click here for a map.

Hospitality, a door to the community

A little over a week ago, our "core group" gave out warm beverages at Georgetown's Christmas Tree lighting. As we handed out hot chocolate, coffee, and spiced cider, we also invited people to our Christmas Eve service, the first worship service for our fledgling church.

We came with 140 cups and left with only 40. I was glad to hear that most everybody we met had heard of us.


I was also glad to hear the community children's choir sing (pictured left.) Yes, they sang those cheerful secular Christmas songs. But, they also did very well with some sacred Christmas music. How exciting it was that Christ was proclaimed by two groups on the streets of Scott County, Kentucky!

The December Mission Plant Minute

The Bread of Life Mission Plant Minute, December
A monthly article about Bread of Life, the Lutheran mission plant in
Scott County, Kentucky.

There are those decisive moments when things change forever.

I remember the months before departing to college. There were the applications, the visits, the interviews, the acceptance letters. I graduated from high school and spent my summer working to raise a little extra money. My roommate and I called each other on the phone for the first time. The month before I would go away to school, I hurried about purchasing and packing those things necessary for the adventure ahead. Then came the night when my father and I packed the family van and the early morning when I would say goodbye to my mother and four brothers and sisters, giving and receiving handshakes and hugs. Through the darkness before dawn I walked to the van, knowing that things would never be the same again.

Bread of Life has spent the fall dreaming and planning. Now, in the winter she is executing on those plans. On Friday the 17^th of November, members of Bread of Life served warm drinks at Georgetown’s Christmas Tree Lighting. We will do the same at the Christmas Parade. We were pleased that most people we encountered had heard of us, and we invited many of them to our Christmas Eve Service. We have also begun to acquire those things necessary for a mission church – a small PA system, for example. In short, Bread of Life has crossed one of those points where things have changed forever.

As we cross over from dreaming to doing, one thing will never change. One thing remains the same and, God-willing, will always remain the same. Bread of Life remains committed the mission of the Church to “Proclaim God’s Grace, Proclaim the Cross.” Pray that we remain faithful to this message.

The Mission Plant Minute, November

What follows is the latest edition of an article that is published in several church newsletters.

The Bread of Life Mission Plant Minute
A monthly article about Bread of Life, the Lutheran mission plant in Georgetown, Kentucky.

November
Where are you worshipping? How many do you have now? I’ve been asked this question many times over the past few months. Because of this, I realize that many people do not know what is going on with our effort to plant a church in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Up until now, we have spent the majority of our time simply dreaming and planning. Over the past few months, we have come up with a strategy to plant a church. Many people have weighed in: the “core” of those committed to planting the church, other church planters, district officials, and the other pastors in the Lexington circuit. Now that we have a plan, we have begun to execute. Here is a brief synopsis of our plan:

Christmas Eve, we will conduct a Community Christmas Eve Service directed toward those new to the community and may not yet have a place to worship. We will then conduct an organizational meeting on January 21st for those interested in being a part of the mission plant. If there are 75 people that will be committed to worshipping on a regular basis, we plan to have our first public worship service on February 25, the First Sunday in Lent. During the six Sundays in Lent, we will study the Six Chief Parts of the Catechism so that by Easter the congregation will be able to receive Holy Communion together. If fewer than 75 people will be committed, we will undertake an evangelism campaign.

This is an ambitious plan. Many congregations in the Georgetown area have only about 50 people on a regular Sunday. Yet, I am hopeful and prayerful that we reach this goal. Please pray for us in this work.

Pastor Christopher Jackson

Newspaper Article #2

Check out what the local nespaper had to say about us recently.

Moving Foward

We are beginning to execute our strategy for establishing a Lutheran congregation in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Our first service, a community Christmas Eve service, will be held at the Best Western in Georgetown, at 7:30 PM. We also reserved a room at the library for 3 PM on Sunday, January 21st for an organizational meeting of those who would like to be part of the new church.

In the run-up to these events, we have a lot of work to do. In order to get our name into the community, we will be serving hot chocolate and coffee at the community Christmas tree lighting as well as their Christmas parade. We will also be taking out newspaper ads and sending out direct mailing postcards.

It will also be necessary to do a good bit of work putting together those things needed for worship: an audio system, altar set, etc.

Quite a bit of work to be done!

Sorry so long

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Let's just say that I have more fully experienced the demands that the pastoral ministry places on time.

However, after Sunday afternoon, we will have much to report. So, keep a look out. I anticipate the posts to be coming much more regularly soon.

An Important Visitor

Yesterday, our core group was visited by Pastor Dave Dubbelde, the district mission representative for our denomination. It was an informative and encouraging visit.

He commented about another positive to the name "Bread of Life." When he was young, he was a farmer's son. In the Fall he would haul grain from the fields to the elevators, and in every trip he would pass by his grandmother's house where she always had a loaf of bread going. His point: bread evokes feelings of comfort, of belonging, of home, all feelings that he believed a church should evoke.