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From: Mark Seagle <mseagle@valleyviewtuscaloosa.com>
To: 'A Appiah-Opoku' <auggyab@yahoo.com>, 'A Ezell' <aezell01@bellsouth.net>, 'B Freeman' <freemansheetbob@bellsouth.net>, 'C Allen' <carlamallen@comcast.net>, 'C Gillespie' <carla.gillespie@tuscaloosanews.com>, 'C Singley' <csingley4936@charter.net>, 'C Wilson' <cindyhwilson@charter.net>, 'C Wilson' <aubrey.w.wilson@nucor.com>, 'D Mims' <wdmims@comcast.net>, 'D Nix' <dnix@sheltonstate.edu>, 'G Gray' <gaygray48@aol.com>, 'J Herndon' <jayhunts@yahoo.com>, 'J Mosley' <jmosley@sheltonstate.edu>, 'K Estes' <krestes1@hotmail.com>, 'K Kamplain' <kristikamplain@bankoftuscaloosa.com>, 'K Morrow' <shawnkristi@bellsouth.net>, 'Karen Ramos' <coosa@att.net>, 'L Brasher' <abrasher@bama.ua.edu>, 'L McGahey' <lmcgahey@bellsouth.net>, 'M Howard' <jhwd@novonordisk.com>, 'R & S McCluckey' <rockyandsharon@msn.com>, 'R Holmes' <rholmes@dchsystem.com>, 'R Layson' <renate.layson@graphicpkg.com>, 'R Morgan' <r_morgan@comcast.net>, 'S Eiland' <sneiland@gmail.com>, 'S Kirkwood' <kirkwood3@charter.net>, 'S Ray' <sandcray1@aol.com>, 'T Freeman' <bfreeman10414@charter.net>, 'T Nix' <bamatiff@gmail.com>, 'A Guillory' <guilloryfish@yahoo.com>, 'C Bell' <cathy_bell@att.net>, 'C Colburn' <cherric@charter.net>, 'C Hill' <chill@ingramsaccounting.com>, 'C Morgan' <cmaxfligo@comcast.net>, 'C Ramey' <carol.dawkins@va.gov>, 'C Ramey2' <carolramey@mound.net>, 'D Guy' <dguy913@comcast.net>, 'D Kyzer' <donkyzer@bellsouth.net>, 'D Mills' <dmills@tcss.net>, 'H Strickland' <mhstrick@bellsouth.net>, 'J & T Bridges' <livetogive7@gmail.com>, 'J Hajek' <hajekh@bellsouth.net>, 'J Hajek2' <jhajek@tusc.k12.al.us>, 'J McCluskey' <jasenmccluskey@yahoo.com>, 'J Naramore' <naramore2402@comcast.net>, 'J Snead' <john_snead@comcast.net>, 'L Evers' <lalaevers@yahoo.com>, 'L Hardwick' <linda.hardwick@alcc.alabama.gov>, 'L Smith' <jimandleesa@aol.com>, 'L Snead' <lsnead@dchsystem.com>, 'M Hartley' <mlhartley@crimson.ua.edu>, 'M Tubbs' <mtubbs4@comcast.net>, 'R Mccluskey' <nayandbub@yahoo.com>, 'R Pierce' <rdp78@aol.com>, 'S Glover' <sbglover@crimson.ua.edu>, 'S Young' <syoung@hannasteel.com>, 'W & L Beall' <mrbigwayne@charter.net>, 'W Chapman' <havagreatday@gmail.com>
Sent: Thu, Jun 23, 2011 18:02:40 GMT+00:00
Subject: Transformed...ABS News

Lately, every week that I venture into Yahweh is an opportunity for a spiritual tail whipping!    For instance, in this week’s study Josiah discovers that the Word of God is dormant among the people of God!    In fact, the Word is not just dormant, but it has been ABSENT for an extended season.  Wow!!  The people of God walking around and taking up space on the planet without the Word of God being shared among them.     What a tragic account?!   What an epic response by Josiah!    He calls the people to move their hearts and minds toward the Word and invites them to fall in love with the Word and leads them to devour the Word and stakes their lives upon the Word.       I know that the Word of God, at times, becomes dormant in our own personal lives and in the life of our fellowship.    We don’t intend for that to happen, but life chokes truth at times.   May we be like Josiah, and respond with passion and persistence when we find that we are slipping away from the only thing that really matters.   God’s Word is beautiful!  Revel in Him.  Lead your group to value the Word AND to radically adjust our lives to the truth of His Word.

 

 

A few important nuggets…

-         July 3^rd (the week AFTER next) Valley View will have a single service at 10 AM and no ABS or evening activities.    9:30, we will be serving light snacks and enjoying some sweet community prior to the service.

-         I (Mark) will be venturing away for a couple of Sundays.    I will miss you guys, BUT I will surely love, love, love being with my wife and kids for a season.    I will be praying for our fellowship while enjoying my family.

-         Renew 2011 launches July 11 @ 6:30 PM     In the month of July and the first week of August, we will have NO Sunday or Wed activities, but we WILL have amazing Monday night services.    Loads of information is already coming your way via our worship folder and posters and hand-outs….

-         4.32 Tuesdays to launch on Tuesday, July 12.    4.32 Tuesday’s will be one more way to unite and expect as a church.    Your staff team will be providing an on-line opportunity to pray, unite, reflect, and expect.   Each Tuesday, we will reflect on the prior weekend and how God was speaking to us – perhaps via our ABS groups or in Bro Billy’s teaching or in a unique experience that God is doing among us.      The ‘how’ of 4.32 Tuesday is that we will post on the blog each Tuesday (and also on FB) and think, provide focused prayer, and invite our body to unite even more in our hope in Christ.    I think that this will feel or be a bit like 18 Days (from The Awakening), but will be offered once a week rather than daily.      4.32 Tuesday launches July 12.

 

As we pray…..

-         Our Honduran team is gearing up and preparing for a God-sized week.    Last night (Wed), Stan Gray shared that 125+ people were saved last year by the use of a visual tool that shares the gospel.   This year, 11 people are trained to use this same tool  He asked us to pray for an outpouring of God’s grace in response to the presentation of the gospel!       Pray for a God-sized week.

-         Our Royal Family Kids have returned to their homes and are considering the implications of camp.   Continue to pray for this ministry and these children.    The monthly mentoring ministry will launch as school returns.   How exciting to be in the middle of God’s move as He completely changes the trajectory of the lives of these children and their present and future families.

-         This weekend, our recent graduates and college students will head to Doublehead for a retreat.    Ask Christ to rest among them.

-         Renew 2011 is on the horizon.   Pray, expect, and invite.

 

I thank my God for each of you.  I hope that the Word of Christ is alive in your heart.  I pray that the Word will not be dormant among us.   I am asking God to bring us alive toward His Word and that His Word will flourish among us.      Thank you for being a partner in the gospel.    I look forward to seeing you guys in the near future and the Word of God PROSPERING among us.    The Word of God is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me. —Martin Luther

 

By Grace…. For Glory,

Mark

 

 

 

 

mark seagle

pastor, spiritual formation

valley view bc

tuscaloosa, al

205.752.0977

 

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-----Original message-----

From: Mark Seagle <mseagle@valleyviewtuscaloosa.com>
To: 'A Appiah-Opoku' <auggyab@yahoo.com>, 'A Ezell' <aezell01@bellsouth.net>, 'B Freeman' <freemansheetbob@bellsouth.net>, 'C Allen' <carlamallen@comcast.net>, 'C Gillespie' <carla.gillespie@tuscaloosanews.com>, 'C Singley' <csingley4936@charter.net>, 'C Wilson' <cindyhwilson@charter.net>, 'C Wilson' <aubrey.w.wilson@nucor.com>, 'D Mims' <wdmims@comcast.net>, 'D Nix' <dnix@sheltonstate.edu>, 'G Gray' <gaygray48@aol.com>, 'J Herndon' <jayhunts@yahoo.com>, 'J Mosley' <jmosley@sheltonstate.edu>, 'K Estes' <krestes1@hotmail.com>, 'K Kamplain' <kristikamplain@bankoftuscaloosa.com>, 'K Morrow' <shawnkristi@bellsouth.net>, 'Karen Ramos' <coosa@att.net>, 'L Brasher' <abrasher@bama.ua.edu>, 'L McGahey' <lmcgahey@bellsouth.net>, 'M Howard' <jhwd@novonordisk.com>, 'R & S McCluckey' <rockyandsharon@msn.com>, 'R Holmes' <rholmes@dchsystem.com>, 'R Layson' <renate.layson@graphicpkg.com>, 'R Morgan' <r_morgan@comcast.net>, 'S Eiland' <sneiland@gmail.com>, 'S Kirkwood' <kirkwood3@charter.net>, 'S Ray' <sandcray1@aol.com>, 'T Freeman' <bfreeman10414@charter.net>, 'T Nix' <bamatiff@gmail.com>, 'A Guillory' <guilloryfish@yahoo.com>, 'C Bell' <cathy_bell@att.net>, 'C Colburn' <cherric@charter.net>, 'C Hill' <chill@ingramsaccounting.com>, 'C Morgan' <cmaxfligo@comcast.net>, 'C Ramey' <carol.dawkins@va.gov>, 'C Ramey2' <carolramey@mound.net>, 'D Guy' <dguy913@comcast.net>, 'D Kyzer' <donkyzer@bellsouth.net>, 'D Mills' <dmills@tcss.net>, 'H Strickland' <mhstrick@bellsouth.net>, 'J & T Bridges' <livetogive7@gmail.com>, 'J Hajek' <hajekh@bellsouth.net>, 'J Hajek2' <jhajek@tusc.k12.al.us>, 'J McCluskey' <jasenmccluskey@yahoo.com>, 'J Naramore' <naramore2402@comcast.net>, 'J Snead' <john_snead@comcast.net>, 'L Evers' <lalaevers@yahoo.com>, 'L Hardwick' <linda.hardwick@alcc.alabama.gov>, 'L Smith' <jimandleesa@aol.com>, 'L Snead' <lsnead@dchsystem.com>, 'M Hartley' <mlhartley@crimson.ua.edu>, 'M Tubbs' <mtubbs4@comcast.net>, 'R Mccluskey' <nayandbub@yahoo.com>, 'R Pierce' <rdp78@aol.com>, 'S Glover' <sbglover@crimson.ua.edu>, 'S Young' <syoung@hannasteel.com>, 'W & L Beall' <mrbigwayne@charter.net>, 'W Chapman' <havagreatday@gmail.com>
Sent: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 19:22:08 GMT+00:00
Subject: Transformed... ABS News

It is so good and so fresh to spend time in the Word.    Last week, as we looked at the life of Hezekiah, I prayed that our fellowship would have such a God-filled and God-trusting challenge.     A single verse has captured my heart as I am faced with life’s issues and choices.   Hezekiah was surrounded on every side.  Enemies from within and without abounded.     There are a multitude of ways that He could have responded and there is ONE right way.   2 Kings 19.14 is becoming a life-application verse.   Hezekiah heard of internal murmuring and external enemies and when all of the reports were in his hands, he made straight the path to the presence of God and he ‘spread the letters’ out before God.   He did not attempt to move in His own wisdom.  He did not seek to solve the problem.  He did not forge a better way.   He did not worry or fall apart.  What he did… well,  he chased the presence of God.    May we be a church of people who share in the common desire to spread our ‘letters’ and our hopes and challenges and our hurts and our highest moments and our pain and our regrets and our victories and ALL that we are before our God and trust Him with our lives.      It is so good to be a people of the Word.  It is good to be among a people who long for the presence of God!

 

3 Vital Things You Should Know…

-         Father’s Day is this Sunday!    We have normal services/ ABS in the AM and NO activities in the PM.

-         Our fellowship has been to 3 camps (kid’s/ MS/ HS); enjoyed VBS; sent a team of collegiates to Jamaica; and we are currently wrapping up Royal Family Kids Tuscaloosa version.   Transformation is happening this Summer!

-         Summer is a vital time to keep up with folks who are traveling and doing the beach and all of the things that happen in the summer.     Most of our folks will take some time to R & R (the Seagle family will be doing just that in a week), but we also EXPECT to see God move in Spirit and in Power through the Summer months.    So, keep contacting… keep up with your group… keep ministry flowing… plan a party… do a mission project… have AMAZING Biblical encounters every week.    Let’s keep the bar of expectancy and unity high through these months.

 

As You pray…

-         Ask God to bring a profound conclusion to Royal Family Camp tomorrow (Friday) and to revitalize all of those who have volunteered countless hours to this camp.

-         Ask God to provide great wisdom as we move forward with the design of future space.   Through the summer, teams are working toward final design and a guaranteed cost for the Phase 1 project.  Pray for much wisdom.

-         In the month of July, pray for your staff as we ‘spread out our letters’ before God and we plan, prepare, and purpose for 2011 – 2012.   July will be a wonderful month of asking MUCH from our God in the upcoming year.    Our planning and preparation in July/ August will guide all ministry initiatives for the upcoming year.   Pray for much of God’s wisdom and God’s glory!

-         Pray for a generous church.   As we discussed in our Phase 1 presentation, there is no reason for us to wait to eliminate the current debt.    Encourage the folks in your class to give above their tithe to reduce our debt as we prepare to move into Phase 1.   We will be having a more formal campaign through the Fall, but we are absolutely great with an outpouring of generosity this Summer!

-         Our Honduras team is weeks away from a life-changing and world-changing trip.   Pray for a God-sized venture!

 

 

I hope that you wrestle with grace this week.   Grace is what defines us as followers of Christ.  Grace is beautiful.  Grace attracts.    The ‘Yahweh’ writers says that, ‘grace is a hard reality for those who have grown up in its presence.’     We are broken people.  All of us.  We are desperate for grace.    Have you ever spent time with Christians who are not grace filled?  It is so ironic to be with a group of Christians filled with pride, for pride is the antithesis of grace.     It is painful to be around ‘un-grace’.  In fact, it’s a disgrace to GRACE!    Grace, discovered in the Person of Jesus Christ, is the hope for your ABS, this Church, the City of Tuscaloosa, and the Nations.   Grace is our only hope.    May we be a people who think very little of ourselves and very much of Christ and may the grace of Christ compel us.    Grace Amazing!

 

 

By Grace… For Glory,

Mark

 

 

 

 

 

mark seagle

pastor, spiritual formation

valley view bc

tuscaloosa, al

205.752.0977

 

Mission Update

Saturday June 25th we will be going to the West Alabama Food Bank to paint. They have several panels that need to be painted and we will need as many people to come as possible. We will meet at the church at 7:30 am, that way we'll be able to finish early so you can get on with whatever Saturday plans you have. The people at the Food Bank are relying on us to help get this done for them so please plan on helping, this is almost 2 weeks in advance so I hope to see a big turnout from our class. Thanks, and if you have any questions please call or email me, Chris