Long Hollow White House Campus Blog

We had some winners at the ol chili cook off and these are them.

At the top, in third place was the Male Chauvinist Chili presented by Rodney Hatfield

In the middle, in second with the stunning jersey was the Hammer presented by Dalton Worley (Whose mother produced this excellent photo)

and lastly, right in the front, holding the most beautiful trophy ever created, Mr. Ian Slunaker with the first place Famous Chili.

Great job everybody, one wild and crazy night in the books!

Ben Heile

PS, if you have any pictures of any of our events, please don’t hesitate to send them on to me at ben.heile@longhollow.com 

That quote sends shivers down my spine, what could possibly be worse than being sticky?!?  This post has a couple of announcements for the little ones.

• Friend Day   Sunday October 26 is Friend Day!  Invite a friend and wear your favorite team jersey, unless it’s not Tennessee.  In that case you can donate it to third world countries.
• Celebration Service!!!   We will have a celebration service for all children who would like to be baptized on Sunday October 26 at either 9:30 or 11:00 service.  We would like to have as many of our kids participate in this special service as possible.  if your child is ready to be baptized at the celebration service, please email Jason.Underhill@LongHollow.com or call 824-4006.
• Fall Festival!!!   As we draw close to the end of the month, we want you to know about the Fall Festival that the church will be putting on at the Hendersonville campus.  Its a night of jumps, games, food and candy.  A healthy alternative to some of the other October 31 activities out there.  It will run from 5-8 and all are welcome!

I’ll leave you with this quote:  There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.  ~Frank A. Clark

That’s what our children’s ministry is all about, empowering parents to evangelize to their little ones as effectively as possible.  May these events and the tireless efforts of our nearly divine children’s workers be of much good to you and your family!!!

Ben

Hankies in hand, we sidle up to the last week in our small groups fair.  If you haven’t gotten into a group, this is the single best way for you to meet the leaders of the different groups and find out where you will fit in most comfortably.  I strongly encourage any of our small groups, they wouldn’t be groups otherwise, but there is definitely a bit of an art to picking the right one.  Make sure you stop by and check it out and meet these fine folks.

And as for the folks who are already in a small group, here are some words from our Small Groups Pastor, Terry Hadaway:

“Trailblazers. That’s the word that comes to mind when I think about the Small Groups in White House. It seems like just yesterday we were plotting a strategy for making groups work in White House and, in a couple of days, we will have approximately 90 new small groups meeting all over the area. So much of what is happening with new groups today was piloted with many of you. You should feel a sense of satisfaction knowing that your commitment to make groups happen proved to us that groups work. As a result, we will see about 600 new adults in Bible study this week! You are a testimony to the fact that life change happens in Small Groups. Just think about what God is going to do in and through the lives of people who are following your example. It is definitely a God thing!”

Ben

Men, get ready to break in the White House Community Center/City Hall (The nice building next to College Street and Hollywoods) with the Men’s Prayer Breakfast!  We’re going to bathe the campus in prayer and eat some excellent prayer foods created by our own Women’s ministry.  Come Saturday the 18th at 8:00 in the am.  Contact me with any questions at ben.heile@longhollow.com

Benj

Here’s a few announcements from the Alan Tucker who is our volunteer Children’s guru. 

•  A note for parents of Kindergartners and 1st graders:  We will be having a small group class available for them to attend this Sunday the October 12th.  It will be in the cafeteria along with the preschool.  All other grade-schoolers will attend worship with their parents.
• Resource Central is sending up some Long Hollow T-Shirts this Sunday.  They are 3/4 sleeve baseball T’s.   They are white with navy sleeves and have a Long Hollow logo that lists all 3 campuses!  The cost is $10.93  (which includes the tax).

 

 

 

Sunday was just bonkers.  We had our very first baptism!  Write it down, the Rachel Hatfield was the first ever to follow our Lord in baptism at the White House Campus followed shortly by Mr. Michael Powers.  Both presented a strong testimony to the power of God in regeneration, the mercy and wisdom and justice of God in salvation, and set themselves firmly on the narrow path before our humble congregation.  Are you next?  Have you put yourself out there as a follower of Christ?

Baptism is an ordinance set in place by our Lord in order to show a picture or a physical analogy of the spiritual reality of salvation.  Piper describes it like this:

“We are not mainly talking about religious ritual here. We are not mainly talking about church tradition here. We are mainly talking about Jesus Christ and his magnificent work of salvation in dying for our sins and rising for our justification. Talking about baptism means talking about how Jesus taught us to express our faith in Jesus and his great salvation. So don’t have small thoughts as we begin. Have large thoughts. Great thoughts about great reality—Jesus Christ, the Son of God, crucified to bear the sins of millions and raised to give them everlasting life in the new heavens and the new earth.”   –John Piper, read more here.

The question then comes, have you been baptized?  If not, be honest with yourself.  Why?  If you want to talk about it more, email me at ben.heile@longhollow.com. 

Your friend and servant,

Ben