Announcing Saturday Evening Services

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Dear MBC Loudoun Community,

I am thrilled to share with you some exciting news that I believe will help us further impact Loudoun for Christ. After much discussion and prayer by our staff, as well as the senior leadership of MBC, we have decided to launch a Saturday evening service here at MBC Loudoun. Beginning the weekend of June 6 and 7, we will be transitioning from a 12:30 Sunday service to a 6:30pm Saturday evening service. I am excited that we will be offering children’s programming through 5th grade on Saturday evenings beginning June 6 as well.

I believe this decision will provide a great opportunity for growth at our campus. As we move toward the coming launch, I hope you will join me in praying for God to use this in a mighty way and for His orchestration of all the logistics and details. A few of those logistics and details include the following:

1. Please pray for our 12:30 service attendees. We value them and their commitment to the work the Lord is doing through MBC Loudoun. We know many of them will be saddened but hope they will find new direction with us in this transition.
2. To help ensure a solid core and successful launch of our Saturday service, I am asking 20 families to commit to attending Saturday night for at least six months and to serve at least one time per month in some capacity around that service. I hope you will pray about being one of these families, and I will pray for those families who join us Saturday evenings.
3. Please pray God would draw people to our newly forming Saturday evening teams: Kids Quest (Elementary, Preschool and Nursery), ushers, greeters, parking, welcome center, and communion.
4. As some of our valuable Sunday morning team leaders and members transfer to the Saturday night service, please pray the Lord would raise up those who are not currently serving with a desire to fill Sunday morning positions.
5. Please pray for this valuable outreach opportunity as families and individuals are in their neighborhoods, at sporting events and at BBQs on Saturdays this summer, that they would invite their friends and neighbors to join them for our new Saturday evening service.
6. Please pray as we seek to fill several new part time staff positions as a result of this new service. They are:

• Ministry Teams Associate Director – to develop and oversee Saturday night teams as well as work with outreach and communications. Contact susie.battle@mcleanbible.org for more information.
• Elementary Coordinator – to develop and oversee teams for K through 5th grade. Contact leanne.smart@mcleanbible.org for more information.
• Preschool Coordinator – to oversee teams for preschoolers. Contact leanne.smart@mcleanbible.org for more information.
• Nursery Coordinator – to oversee teams for infants and toddlers. Contact leanne.smart@mcleanbible.org for more information.

I am excited about all God is doing and will do through this new service. It is a pleasure to serve Him with you. I pray He blesses you.

If I may serve you in any way, please let me know.

Remember this passage out of the book of Acts:

From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. Act 17:26-27

Serving Christ with you in Loudoun County,
Jim Supp, Campus Pastor @ MBC Loudoun