Well come this week to our Sunday service to find out!  In order to prepare for our Sunday conversation, please read Acts 17.

Megan Langer has helped start a local non-profit called, 31:20 (based on Prov. 31:20).  The mission of this organization is to help people find expression for their faith.

This summer, 31:20 is trying to make it simple for you to reach out to—and connect with—your neighbors. They’ve organized three events that you can easily host throughout the summer. We’ve made you flyers, lists of supplies, and will even provide you with a giant movie screen, projector and speakers for a neighborhood movie night! In Luke 10:27 Jesus says, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.” The first step in loving your neighbors is knowing  them!

Check out http://www.thirtyonetwenty.org/#!simple-steps-for-summer/c2o for more information and plan to join us for a Memorial Day BBQ to meet others trying to reach out to and love their neighbors as well.

Last year, we were able to give 37 scholarships and we hope to match that this year. Last year, the extra VBS funds went to provide school supplies and backpacks for NLP and we plan to do the same thing this year should we have anything leftover.

So what really matters in our conversations about God with those who are skeptical about trusting him?  Is there any help we can receive from the Scriptures that will make our conversations count with those who don’t yet believe in Him?

Well, if you want to know the answer to that, come to church this Sunday where we will pick up this conversation together.  This week we are going to look at a passage where Jesus makes his conversation with an unlikely, skeptical person count.  In order to prepare for our conversation on Sunday, please read John 4:1-42.

Register your kid(s) today! Registration Form 2013

Interested in building community, changing the world or having your world changed?

1. Sign-up to be a VBS volunteer
Last year, the VBS team had a great time serving together. This is a great opportunity to get to know people and be able to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our community.

2. Sign-up to buy, prepare & serve dinner on one of the nights
We are in need of 5 meals. Grab your family, Home Group, Women’s or Men’s group, etc and sign-up together. The meals not only allow for the  kids, their family and the VBS volunteers to eat before the program starts, but it allows for parents to hang out during the program and get to know each other.

We still need meals for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. Click Here for more details.

3. Send a child to VBS by giving a $25 scholarship.
These scholarships give kids the opportunity to still attend VBS even if their families cannot afford it.

Attention Parents: Scholarships are also available to Aspen Grove kids, so please talk with Kristen Sarfraz if a scholarship is needed.

Sign-ups for meals & volunteering along with a donation bin are available in the lobby or email Kristen Sarfraz @ Kristens@aspengrovechurch.org.

If you missed church two weeks ago, then you missed a great time of sharing from the adults who went on Aspen Grove’s two winter mission trips to serve in inner-city San Diego. You can hear the service HERE.

We’d like to offer the church another opportunity to go on the same trip this coming fall or winter.

If you have any questions please email Chris Martin

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If you have any interest please fill out this form (you are not committing to going just by filling it out):

The Answer: Care for them.

If you are like me, when the topic of sharing your faith comes up, I instantly think of information.  What information do I need to share with people that will convince them to trust in Jesus?  That way of thinking leads me to remember all of the arguments I have had with people over the years.  Those conversations weren’t very productive.  In fact, many of them were downright hurtful to me (and if I am honest, they were also hurtful to those with whom I shared Christ).

However, Jesus shows us a different approach.  Jesus doesn’t begin sharing the good news by giving people information.  Jesus doesn’t start by arguing people into believing in him.  Jesus starts by demonstrating God’s love by caring for those who suffer.  Through his care for those who suffer, Jesus demonstrates what it means to be in a relationship with God.  God’s heart is to bind up the brokenhearted, not overlook them.  Jesus shows us God’s heart through his care for those who suffer.

This week, we are going to learn that if we want to share the love of God with those around us, we need to begin by demonstrating the love of God.  We need to learn to care for those who suffer.  In order to prepare for our conversation, read Luke 4:14-30.

Today, April 24th is a very exciting day for Colorado’s evangelical community.  All around the state we will be having 7 worship services to share stories, scripture and song around God’s heart for the immigrant and to pray for unity within the body of Christ.

We have been invited to attend the worship service at Centennial Covenant Church off Mineral.  Laurie Swanson will be sharing her own story of how God has been working in her life through the girl she has been mentoring at North Littleton Promise.  Chris Martin and company will be lead a portion of our worship.  I recommend attending this multi-cultural, multi-congregational event in order to learn more about God’s love for the world!  I cannot wait to worship with all nations tomorrow at 7pm.

Littleton – Centennial Covenant Church – 401 W Mineral Ave. 80120

Hope to see you tonight!

Scott Vermillion

Lead Pastor for Aspen Grove Community Church

Other Worship Locations:

Denver – Church in the City – 1580 Gaylord St. 80206

Colorado Springs – The Crossing – 2323 E Boulder St. 80909

Loveland – Crossroads Church and Iglesia Pacto de Amor– 5420 N Taft Ave. 80538

Dillon – Dillon Community Church – 371 E La Bonte St. 80435

Westminster – Healing Waters Family Center – 6475 W 29th Ave. 80214

New Castle – River Center 126 N 4th St. 81647

If God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, then we should care about the things that God loved. He loved us. People!

Often we pick and choose those who was care about based on many superficial reasons, rather than caring for people because God cares for them.

This week we’ll hear from the participants of our two adult mission trips to San Diego about their experiences. The stories are very meaningful, and the lessons learned are monumental. If you want to share the Gospel with people, you have to care about them as people first.

As you prepare for Sunday please consider reading James 2:1-13 and ask God to soften your heart to love the whole world.