"SEPTEMBERFEST” AND OPERATION ANDREW

Sunday worship Scripture readings and sermons during “Septemberfest” will focus on church growth, both in faith and in numbers. Early in the month Pastor Jenkins will be launching Operation Andrew.

Andrew, as our Sunday School children would be able to tell you – or soon surely will be – was one of the fishermen whom Jesus called away from their nets saying, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Remembering Andrew and in preparation for Homecoming, during worship in early September Pastor Jenkins will be asking us to write the names of those people that we would like to see in our sanctuary on Homecoming and possibly on many Sundays after that, and to place those names in the nets surrounding the altar. During the week then we will be calling and talking to the people whose names are in the nets, so that on Homecoming Sunday, September 18, our sanctuary will be full not of names but of worshipers, and we will have become, like Andrew, fishers of men (and women and children). Operation Andrew will not end then, of course, but it will be off to a good start.

Contributing to the spirit of Operation Andrew will be “Vitality Sunday,” September 11, when Rev. Dr. David Schoen, Team Leader for Congregational Vitality and Discipleship for the United Church of Christ, will be preaching on how EACC in particular can become a vital congregation.