Worship Update 2/26

From Jay

Let Your Love Go

Hope that is hidden is selfish. Love that is held back is wasted.

In track, my favorite race was the 1500 meters (100 yards short of a mile). In a sprint like the 100 yard dash, it’s easy to give it your all… to go all out, because it’s short and the race is going to be over in seconds. In the 1500, it’s much harder to give it your all for the whole race. It is easier to find times to hold back. The worst feeling at the end of any sporting event, or really anything, is to leave knowing that I didn’t give it my all and that I could have given more.

When it comes to serving at a church, sometimes I leave with the same feeling. The feeling that I know I could have given more or that I know I held back. What do I hold back? Love.

I love Jesus, and I love worshipping Him. I love His creation of music and the part it plays in bringing Him glory. I love technology and the part it plays in bringing Him glory. I love His church, His message, His people, and His community. So what I am tempted to hold back every Sunday, (let alone the rest of my week) is that love. It’s vulnerable and scary to fully engage, to fully enter the moment, to fully give myself away emotionally in whatever I’m doing. It’s easier to hold some back.

Jesus didn’t do that, He didn’t hold back, He invested Himself fully in whatever moment He was in. And here’s the thing, when I don’t invest fully, people feel it. Love comes out in the way I treat people, love comes out in the way I worship. There is a noticeable difference in our offering of praise on Sunday or our service in the community throughout the week, when we hold back love. When we let all our love go, for God and for people, we encourage the community to love more.
Let your love go.


Opportunities to Grow

WCA All Ministry Training Day
Sunday, March 14th, 12:30pm – more information to come!
Please pencil out the afternoon on March 14th. We will be providing lunch right after the eleventh hour, and then various breakouts and ministry wide moments will be shared together.
My goal would be that a couple hundred of us would be there. From our ushers, to our choir, to our orchestra, to our vocalists, to our prayer warriors, to our band, to our tech... we are all on one team and the goal is to be all together on this day.
Sincerely, Jay


Opportunities to Serve

Ushers Needed!!
We are in need of ushers for all 3 services. If you are available and willing to serve once a month as an usher, please contact carriepeeples@sunsetpres.org or 503.292.9293 x3083. It’s a great opportunity to your feet wet in ministry. Interested? Contact

Volunteers and Pillar Candles
We will be offering the walk-thru exhibit, The Experience, this Easter. If you are available and willing to volunteer on 3/31, 4/1 or 4/2, please email to carriepeeples@sunsetpres.org. We’re also looking for donations of pillar candles, which can be dropped by the church office or left at the book & tape counter on Sundays, please mark that they are for “The Experience, attn Carrie Peeples”. Thank You!

Communion Help
We are looking for people willing to serve once a month helping with communion. Specific positions needed are prep, servers, and clean-up. If you are interested and willing to serve, please email to carriepeeples@sunsetpres.org or call 503.292.9293 x3083.

Come support and bolster the immune system of the weekend services
Help us inoculate them with powerful prayers.
Each week, a few of us gather to pray over the weekend services. We typically meet on the night of the service rehearsal, which is generally on Thursday. We'd love to have you join us, whenever it might fit in your schedule. Come once, monthly or weekly.

What to expect: We enjoy a devotional time together first, with the whole service team, at 7pm. That lasts about a half hour. Then we break off for a time of prayer that lasts about 45 minutes to an hour. Join us?
Occasionally the day/time varies. With that in mind, contact Melinda melindalgroth@gmail.com to verify the schedule.


Upcoming Events
March 14, WCA All Ministry Training Day, 12:30pm
April 1, The Experience
April 4, Easter
April 23, Family Unity Night
April 23-25, Highschool Spring Retreat
May 2, Church Leaves The Building (see below)
May 6, National Day of Prayer
May 7, Annual Golf Tournament
May 9, Mother’s Day

On Sunday, May 2, we are asking our entire congregation to sign up to go out (as one big wave) into the community and serve different agencies and/or families. We will have a short corporate worship service, after which we will continue to worship by providing service to our community.

This is a large undertaking! Therefore, we encourage families, care groups, and friends to sign-up to serve together. With projects ranging from helping individual families in need to cleaning up graffiti in the community, from prepping a community garden site to working in the kitchen providing meals for all the volunteers, there is a place for all people to serve the community. All the projects are in conjunction with a community group or a Sunset Ministry.

Sign up online or in the lobby on Sundays.
Click here to sign up as an individual or family
Click here it to sign up a group