Pints and Ponderings
Tuesday night at Manny Browns (in Neshaminy Mall) at 7:30pm. Questions, contact Todd (toddh @ thewellpa.com)

Thrift Store Volunteer Day (This Thursday!)
On Thursday, August 26th from 2-9pm we’ll be helping out by sorting clothes. Come any time, dinner will be provided. Kids 7 and older are welcome.

Online Giving
If you’d like to give to The Well online, you can do so: http://give.thewellpa. com

Welcome Lunch
If you are new to The Well and would like to know more about what we are doing and what we believe, you are invited to have lunch with the leadership on Sep- tember 12.

Online Formation Resources

• Sacred Space: www.sacredspace.ie “We invite you to make a ‘Sacred Space’ in your day, and spend ten minutes, praying here and now, as you sit at your computer, with the help of on-screen guidance and scripture chosen specially every day.”
• Explore Faith: www.explorefaith.org/ This is a web site that has a lot of good resources for personal reflection, study and prayer.

There are a lot of unknowns when we engage in something like this. Our two communities come from very different places and perspectives. I am not sure how many members of the other churches will be there and how many kids they will bring with them. It will probably be a bit of controlled chaos on Sunday morning!

But, despite all our differences, we have the opportunity to bring together two worlds that rarely interact. If you pay attention to the demographics of Lower Bucks County you’ll realize that there are about 20,000 hispanic people living in our area. And, if you pay attention on another level you’ll realize that our two communities rarely interact. On Sunday, we have the opportunity to take a step in seeing two worlds come together in and through the name of Jesus Christ. In our study of Romans this year, Paul was adamant that unity in the body of Christ was an essential working out of the gospel. This weekend, we get to continue the journey of living that out!

So I want to encourage you, bring your most hospitable self on Sunday morning. I hope that we can humbly treat our visitors as more important than ourselves! Even if you speak less spanish than me, do your best to interact and show love to the guests who are entering into our home. Also, as I said we’re not sure how many kids will be joining us. We may need some people to be prepared to jump in and provide some support to our regular Sunday school teachers!

On a side note, when it comes to seating on Sunday morning, let’s work hard to not have there be the hispanic section and The Well section. People naturally sit near people like them, but this week, take a risk and place yourself in a row and worship alongside our brothers and sisters in Christ.

For the meal afterwards, we’ve invited them to bring meals to share. We invite you to do the same as we do whenever we share a lunch together. Please bring a main dish and a side dish to share. We’ll have plenty of table set up to plug in crock pots.

Finally, please pray. Please pray that this Sunday would be a small step on a long journey of seeing the church come together as one in the name of Jesus Christ. Please pray that friendship and love will be the motivations. Please pray that the name of Jesus will be glorified above all things through our time together. Please pray that our time on Sunday would truly be a small taste of heaven on earth.

Looking forward to an awesome sunday of serving!

Todd Hiestand

This Week

Wednesday – Book Study
We are studying the book, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin on Wednesday nights. This book explores the truth of the gospel in a post-chrsi- tian, post-modern world. We will meet at Starbucks in Feasterville at 7:30pm to 9:00pm on Wednesday nights. This group is open to anyone!

Thursday – Film Screening: The New Metropolis
Thursday, July 22, 7-9 pm at Redemption Church of Bristol. “The New Metropolis” is an hour-long documentary film about the rising challenges to older subur- ban communities and how one commu- nity chose to adapt. We will follow the screening with a community discussion on the challenges of Lower Bucks County and our hope for the area. Location: St. James Episcopal Church – 225 Walnut St, Bristol, PA 19007

Friday – Music Class for Kids
Melanie Hiestand and Michelle Kelly lead a Friday morning music class for kids of all ages. Class starts at 9:45am. Ques- tions: meljayh@gmail.com
Pints and Ponderings
An open discussion on some topic of the- ology at Manny Brown’s at Neshaminy Mall. Open to anyone over the age of 21. Next meeting is Tuesday, August 3rd at 7:30pm. The topic will be Evangelism.

Other News

Todd in LA this Week
Todd has been working for a day a week for The Ecclesia Network (the church network we are part of) by working with churches and leadership teams and also in helping lead the global partnership of the network. This week he’ll be in Los Angeles working with a church there. If you have pastoral needs this week, please contact Shanna Cummings or Phil Wood.

Knitting Knight
Women meet to on the 2nd and 4th Mon- days of the month, at 7:30pm, in various homes to knit and talk. Find out location, contact Melanie: meljayh@gmail.com

Annual Church Camping Trip
August 13-15th. French Creek State Park. $40/adult; $5/child over 2 years of age. Contact Ryan Kelly: rkelly@cbsd.org or sign up on the back table.

Bilingual Worship Gathering: August 22
We will be having a bilingual service with two local Hispanic churches on Sunday, August 22nd, at The Well. This gathering will be followed by a lunch with the best Latino food you could ever imagine.

Online Resources Formation Resources
Sacred Space: www.sacredspace.ie
“We invite you to make a ‘Sacred Space’ in your day, and spend ten minutes, praying here and now, as you sit at your computer, with the help of on-screen guidance and scripture chosen specially every day.”

Explore Faith: www.explorefaith.org/
This is a web site that has a lot of good resources for personal reflection, study and prayer.

Here are some quotes to get you thinking. We also encourage you to reflect on our texts for the week which Acts 2:42-47 and Romans 12:1-2.

“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why the do we read it?”
-Kafka

“The opening page of the Christian text for living, the Bible, tells us that the entire cosmos and every living creature was brought into being by words. St. John selects the term “Word” to account, first and last, for what is most characteristic about Jesus, the person at the revealed and revealing center of the Christian story. Language, spoken and written, is the primary means for getting us in on what is, on what God is and is doing. But it is language of a certain stripe, not words external to our lives, the sort used in grocery lists, computer manuals, French grammars, and basketball rulebooks. These are words intended, whether confrontationally or obliquely, to get inside us, to deal with our souls, to form a life that is congruent with the world that God has created.”
- Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book: A Conversation In The Art Of Spiritual reading.

News & Notes

Prayer: Bob Wood, Phil and Woody’s dad, is having open heart surgery today (Friday) to remove some blockage the doctor’s found earlier this week. Please be in prayer for the surgery and the recovery.

Todd Preaching at Bristol on Sunday: Todd Hiestand is preaching at our church plant in Bristol this evening. If you haven’t visited this community, or want to again, tonight is a great opportunity. If you need directions or info just talk to Todd.

Pints and Ponderings Next Tuesday
An open discussion on some topic of theology at Manny Brown’s at Neshaminy Mall. Open to anyone over the age of 21. Next meeting is THIS WEEK Tuesday, July 13 at 7:30pm. Questions? Contact toddh@thewellpa.com