This week your session was presented with a full version of a Strategic Plan that the seven members of our planning team have been working on for nearly a year and a half. For the past several months, the team has been in dialogue with the elders over the hopes, visions, and specific action steps that are incorporated into the plan. Next  Wednesday, February 21st , we invite you to join us for our normal Wednesday supper and evening program to hear more about this plan. The church leadership is anxious to share our excitement with you all!

Looking for a way dig deeper into your faith and see the many amazing ways and places that God is at work in your life? Come join the Journey Class and find connection, community, and the gift of journeying through Scripture together. Hunter Morrison will facilitate this biblical-based conversation class in which people from all walks of life are invited to find an uplifting and strengthening message in Scripture. This class, which will meet on Sunday mornings during the Sunday School hour in Room 201 of the Education Building, will begin with N.T Wright's Lent for Everyone, which is a devotional and study guide that follows the Scripture readings for each Sunday in Lent. The class will have its first meeting this Sunday, February 18th, which is the first Sunday of Lent. Seeking to be a place where our community can support one another through various life experiences, this class will help us pay attention to how scripture and faith can serve as both a comfort and a guide and to see how God is present alongside us through our journey of faith. Hunter extends this invitation to you: " let's journey together and discover some new things on our journey of faith and life and see what God has done and continues to do in our lives."

Our mission team left for Haiti early Thursday morning for their week of serving and learning alongside OFCB ministries in Bayonnais, Haiti. Please keep them in your prayers. Our mission team is Nicki and Lily Bryant, Betsy Liles, Brian and Margaret Moore, Dave and Ellis Sheridan, Gabbie Frech, and Lynne Keel.