Church guide

Yes, of course we are having church today, 02-24-19. It is a beautiful day. Be aware of travel advisories.

Our 10:30 am service is being moved to 6:00 pm, Sunday, February 17, 2019. Hot beverages await you. Dress casual. Everyone will meet in the main auditorium. Help us put the word out to everyone. Thanks.

CANCELLATION - All Sunday Services - 11/25/2018

July 4th Concert.

Something is going on. Don't use flash.

The calvery showed up.

Doors going up.

Thanks for making this year's Christmas program so powerful.

My beautiful bride still lives being in the Christmas program 😊

How are you doing? Are you feeling alone, wishing for something? Did you go out but feel all alone anyway? Has emptiness rolled over you as fog in the night? Are you crying or wishing you could? I wish you had a button I could push that would turn all of that around. God doesn’t want you to hurt. He wants tonight to be the best night you have ever had. And He has a button you can push. It is called faith. Would you dare set aside everything you are thinking and chose to believe in something you cannot feel? Feelings of despair are the instrument of your enemy. He uses them to wick away all happiness. But God gives you something different than feelings. He gives you faith. With faith, you can reach out from your cold night and touch the warmth of God. Jesus wants to be with you, sit close to you, and tell you things that will turn your night into delight. Call on His name. Ask Him to come sit with you. Your night will come alive and your sadness will dance away. Choose Jesus tonight.

Don enjoys getting a haircut. Doug is the barber:)

New windows installed in the children's room.

Ryan Howe asked met to help him get the word out. Greetings, My name is Ryan Howe, and I teach at SWCC’s Professional Music program. I also run the college’s annual Vocal Jazz Festival. I’m reaching out to you this year with some pretty big group discount offers in an effort to include the Creston area community in this event more than ever. Each year we bring world class vocal and jazz artists to perform at the college and, outside of a small handful of regulars, see little-to-no community presence. It’s not that we expect support mind you, rather we feel like it’s such a shame that these world class concerts that make it to Creston almost never come close to selling out. In other words: we have incredible music and far too many empty seats. This year, our guest artists for our festival on March 3rd (this Friday) are an a cappella vocal sextet known as ACCENT hailing from the US, Canada, France, Sweden, and the UK. They specialize in gospel jazz stylings similar to the group Take 6 and gospel/jazz-inflected arrangements of popular songs as well, and perform without the aid of any instruments. We are bringing this group in for the high school students attending our festival, so we can guarantee the show is “family friendly.” The shows will also be opened by Southwestern’s own Harmonic Convergence and Audio Radiance. For a good example of their style, google/youtube “Accent vocal good news,” or visit our festival website at www.vocaljazzfest.com. Anyway, to get to the point, we would like to offer general admission tickets to you and your community for 15 dollars per person when ordering groups of 4 or more, and 10 dollars per person for groups of 8 or more. This is a $10 or $15 dollar discount, respectively, from our normal General Admission rate of $25 dollars. Just ask for the community discount when reserving your tickets with Ryan Howe at 641-782-1454 or [email protected]. We have two showtimes slated for March 3 at 7pm and 9:15. About half of the 7pm times are already reserved for our festival participants, but the Performing Arts Center on campus seats 500. That’s it. We’d love to see the Creston community benefit from this world class musical presence. We hope you’ll be able to join us and help support our program so that we can continue to bring this level of artistry to town each spring. Also, please feel free to share this email with anyone you think may be interested. Thank you very much, Ryan Howe Professional Music Instructor Southwestern Community College