Lakeside Community Presbyterian Church

I will give thanks to the LORD with

my whole heart;

I will recount all of Your wonderful deeds.

I will be glad and exult in You;

 I will sing praise to Your Name, O Most High.”

(Psalm 9:1-2)

As we move through this second week of November, I want to encourage you to do something for the rest of the month.

Everyday, take a moment to thank someone for something. It can be a verbal “thank you” to the cashier who helped you at the grocery store or you can write a note of thanks to someone. Give and extra tip to the server who has waited on you at a restaurant. Email someone to say thanks or text someone a quick note but treat this act as a response to God for “His wonderful deeds.”

It is as we say thanks, we appreciate more of all of the good and generous acts that come our way. We are also reminded of the good God that we believe in. A God who is good and generous.

So “say thanks” and treat it as a praise to our “God Most High!”

See you on Sunday.

Don’t forget, this Sunday brings with it a change in our clocks (we fall back one hour) with Daylight Savings Time ending. It also is the first Sunday of the month when we celebrate Communion at our worship service. If you are unable to make it to church and will be watching our live stream on YouTube, feel free to get the communion elements (bread and fruit of the vine) ready for communion and you can join with us as we partake of the Lords Supper together.

So I hope that I will see you at church as we gather together.

P.S. If you would like me (or our Elders or Deacons) to bring communion to you at your home, contact the church office and we would love to serve you.

As the month of October comes to a close, I want to ask for your prayerful consider about an extra financial gift to the church.

At our last Session meeting our balance sheet reflected a deficit of $38,303 for the church at the end of September. Now this deficit wasn’t unexpected. Going into the year, we knew that the donations by the households that give to the church on a regular basis would not meet all of our expected expenses for 2023. Our leadership trusted that God would provide in unexpected ways or that we would use some of our savings to cover the difference between our income and our expenses.

Throughout the year, our Stewardship and Property Committee, along with the other committees of the church, have been very careful in their spending. We haven’t over-extended our spending and have tried to be thoughtful with our regular on-going expenses but even by being frugal, with rising expenses, our income has not met our expenses.

I want to ask if you would be willing to be a part of the unexpected giving to the church. If 100 households could give an extra $383, we would eliminate the deficit. Now I know that everyone will not be able to give $383, but if we all gave some type of extra donation by the end of the year, it is possible that the deficit would be eliminated.

So, would you prayerfully consider this? By making an extra contribution we may be able to end the year in the black.

Thanks.