What to Expect This Sunday
You already know that we’re not gathering tomorrow, and we previously mentioned that we’ll be providing something digital for The Village this Sunday. But what exactly should you expect to see from us?
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Teaching
In the morning, a few of us will be gathering at The 210 to put together some virtual alternatives to what we would usually experience in person. At the very least, Michael, Matt and Scott will be discussing this week’s focal passage (Exodus 8:16-32) on camera and in front of a microphone. Our conversation will be uploaded to YouTube and our regular podcast feed, and we’ll make sure links to everything get shared on Realm, the website, and social media.
//Discipleship Guides: Right now you can access the Discipleship Guide for tomorrow’s focal passage. We encourage you (now more than ever!) to dig into the text on your own and with others. You’ll find commentary, questions, and more to help you observe the Word - and let the Word observe you!
//Podcast Feed: Visit the Listen page on our website to find direct links to our podcast on major platforms. You can also tap directly into the raw RSS feed if that’s more your speed! Subscribe to make it all the easier for you to stay up to speed.
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Music
While it’s easier than ever to stream music, a few folks are discussing some creative ways The Village can lead you in worship through song while you’re at home. Nothing is nailed down yet, but no matter what, we’ll provide you with a way to lift up your voices tomorrow morning!
//Spotify Playlist: Regardless of what we’re able to pull together tomorrow, The Village already has a playlist of songs we’ve sung in our Sunday gatherings on Spotify. You can can find it right here.
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Kids
Even though we’re continuing to journey through Exodus, K-Ville will be picking up where they left off whenever we all return to regular gatherings. In the meantime, we wanted to offer you two ways you can bring age-appropriate, Christ-centered, biblically rooted content into your living rooms:
//K-Ville Resources: In every Discipleship Guide, we offer links to digital resources for each week’s K-Ville lesson. While there won’t be a new one this week, the last page of tomorrow’s Discipleship Guide links to videos and full guides for all K-Ville Lessons so you can access what you want, whenever you want it.
//Gospel Basics for Kids: Also linked in tomorrow’s Discipleship Guide is a new resource for The Village. Gospel Basics for Kids is a 14-week curriculum with lessons, songs, coloring pages, and crafts that helps form children into disciples of Jesus who can make more disciples of Jesus. Parents may just learn a thing or two, as well!
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So when can I tune in?
While some of the linked content above is available now, anything we’re putting together tomorrow may not be available by our usual gathering time of 10:30am. Rest assured, we’ll get it out as quickly as we can! In coming weeks, we’ll be better able to have all this ready in advance so we can tell you exactly when you’ll be able to tune in on Sundays. For the record, we will not be livestreaming, so don’t worry about having to glue yourself to your screens at a particular time. We’ll notify you in all the usual places once the content is up, and you’ll be able to enjoy it any time after that!
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This is only temporary!
While these sorts of things can never replace the coming together of God’s people, we’re incredibly grateful to live at a time and place in which we can offer all of this stuff so readily. We’ll miss meeting with you, but we pray the Spirit can use this time as a sacred disruption to what we’ve become accustomed to - and might just be taking for granted. Now’s a sweet time to reflect on and realign our own ownership of our faith as individual disciples and families.