Happy new 2025 year Happy new 2025 year STRONG Singles! 😁🙋♀️(Singles Together Refreshing Ourselves/Others Needing God)
There is a February no meeting pause because our fearless leader slipped on ice 1-12-25 broke her arm in two places (breaking a humorous is not humorous😮🙃) and cannot drive until she heals which isn’t until the beginning of March.
In the interim, I will continue to send you encouraging-scripture once a week. And, if anyone wants to set up a zoom type of meeting, they can contact me and I will work with you on that the best I can.
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This 2025 year, in March or April we will continue our Thursday 6pm gatherings at Mason crossroads lobby on the second week and the fourth week of every month.
The fourth wink week we will review the message and the fourth week. We might review some of the key ideas that are being discussed in the SOAK meetings that are discussing the book called “Seven Myths about Singleness” by Sam Allberry. (see below information on this book and meetings that You can go attend also-)
Or, depending, on the second meeting of the month which is the fourth Thursday in the Crossroads lobby area, we also may have some scriptures to pull on a subject related to the message and Discussion-questions that we have going on in that months Crossroads messages.
Then, *BONUS* Because you are an any age single, you also can participate in the following meetings:
Come "SOAK" In encouraging positive energy (Singles Overboard All about Jesus' Kindness to us aka REFRESH) for Any age single will meets next on Monday January 20 or the third Monday of the month because January 6 has been canceled because of the snowstorm.
We have changed our SOAK meetings to the first and third Monday of each month, at 6:15 so that we could have a room and regular meetings in one place every time with a concentration on discussion and enjoying time together discussing the information from the following book:
Seven Myths about Singleness by Sam Allberry
Reviews:
“Far too often, the church regarding single Christians as people who need to be fixed or fixed up.”
“Allberry rights to remove the stigma from the idea of singleness…”
Allberry shows us “ how we can stop chasing the myths that break our hearts.”
“Allberry flushes out the several hidden, barely conscious assumptions about singleness and celibacy that control our attitudes towards single living. Once he makes these assumptions visible, he uses the Bible to dismantle them and show us a better way. “
“Allberry, in true form, doesn’t waste a single word in seven minutes about single mess. His tone, structure, humor, and biblical undergirding make this book one of the best on the subject in recent years. Not only has Alberry thought hard about the subject of sigleness, he has lived it and continues to glorify Christ in it. Too often, books on singleness still make marriage – or at least becoming marriageable – the point. There’s none of that in here. Instead, he dissembles the lies in which the unmarried can find themselves trapped, showing the abundant life Christ offers to every single person.”
One of the introduction and first chapter questions we review in March or April would be, “Is singleness too hard?”
When we meet we will work through getting to know each other better as well as discussions for practical takeaways on about one or more chapters every month.
Please pray for us to get closer to God and to one another in our times together. I pray for you daily.
Wishing you good health, happiness, peace, and love all of 2025 and beyond🎊😘🫶❣️
See you in March or April 😁Crystal
Luke 17:21 nor will people say “there it is “or “there it is “because the kingdom of God is within you. “
Romans 5: 7 & 8: God demonstrates his love for us in this… while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
Acts 10:43. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.
Some 107:8 let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men.
Philippians 4:23. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
Philippians 3:12-13 NIV
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Philippians 2:13 says, "For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure"
I Corinthians 1:27
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
Psalms 130:1 Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
2. oh Lord, hear my voice, let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
Psalms 37:9 for evil man won’t be cut off, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.