Ubiquity Sunday for Highlands Church this week!

Ubiquity, (y-bkw-t), or \yü-ˈbi-kwə-tē\: “The state or capacity of being everywhere, especially at the same time.”

Ubiquity is one of my favorite words and one of the superpowers I wish I had! It is well suited to describe our Triune God, but no other personal beings. But that right there is our loophole. Jesus Christ as God is ubiquitous, all places at the same time and as the body of Christ, the church shares that superpower!

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A Moment for Gratitude, and for Vision

We’ve often kidded that when we started Highlands Church almost 4 years ago we were “building the plane in flight.” Our first Leadership Team was comprised of the last 6 people holding a beer on the patio of the Highland Cork late one August evening in 2009.  We’d pray, scramble, put our heads together and do what we thought was best. Starting a church like Highlands doesn’t come with an instruction manual, but fortunately, it does come with the Holy Spirit who leads and guides us. However, the Spirit’s leading is rarely in plain English that is readily understood and embraced without complication. But Jesus did say that,  “The Spirit will lead you into all truth.” So we’ve got that going for us!

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Don’t make me a liar!

About a month ago I opened my big fat yapper and said that I was quite sure we would actually be able to have our first service in the newly restored Holiday Theater on June 23. At that time, most people could only see piles of dust and equipment and scaffolding. Someone told me that it didn’t look like we’d done anything since they were in there three months earlier. Ow! But they didn’t know what I knew which is that 75% of the hard work is what happens on the roof, between the walls and under the floors where all the HVAC, electrical and plumbing lines run.

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BEX BITES What will you do with your Chispa?

Becky Girmann, from the Highlands Church International Advocacy Team, is our guest contributor this week:

In the summer of 2011, Sara Schaefer traveled to Honduras to visit a friend. When she arrived in La Florida, a rural community of both great love and great need, she found herself surrounded by new friends that took her in as part of their family. She met community leaders who talked about the chispa (pronounced "cheese-pa") in their community; a word that means drive and motivation to make a positive change. When Highlands’ International Advocacy team began their search last year for a community abroad to connect with in a relationship of mutual support and authentic relationships, it was Sara’s chispa that caused us to place Honduras at the top of our list.

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Mark's Mom

The following is the email I sent my kids this past Tuesday night. Many of you have inquired about Ronnie since she was taken to ER last Thursday with acute respiratory problems that are life threatening. I’ll have a lot more to say about Mom at another time and setting ☺

HI gang,

At 8:00 tonight Mom was taken by ambulance from ICU to the on-site hospice at Lutheran Hospital. Since there has been no real change in her condition she doesn't need to be in ICU as no one is expecting any kind of recovery and hospice is better suited to help her live out her last days as comfortably as possible. Leanne and Jackie went to the hospital to be with her for a bit before they moved her but I am currently too sick to go.

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“All manner of people who were not acceptable by the religious standards of the first century found the wide embrace of God in Jesus Christ. Since God doesn’t pick and choose who will be invited into full participation of the church and faith community, neither should we. If it can include me, I don’t see how it could exclude anyone.”

-Mark Tidd,
Founding Pastor

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