Contrast Church

This is our last post as we have started our "Quiet Year"! See you all in 2025! We leave you with this pic of our prayer and worship night which led us into the New Year!

Find out more info on the quiet year at:
www.contrast.church/thequietyear

We are doing it!

Consider joining us for 2024.
It won't be easy, but it'll be worth it!

First Sunday of Advent Recap:

HOPE!

What a beautiful truth it is to know that Jesus is our hope. Our wonderful counselor, mighty king, everlasting father, and prince of peace.

Join us this upcoming sunday as we continue to prepare our hearts for his birth! Hint, the second advent Sunday is about….

PEACE🕊️

ITS OUR BIRTHDAY🥳🫧✨

This upcoming Sunday, we’re celebrating our 2nd trip around the sun as a church plant in Grandview!

We’re going to celebrate! We hope you will join us🫶🏼

UPCOMING:
🎄: Friday December 8th | 7pm RSVP for our Volunteer Christmas Party
💻: Work Wednesday @ The 1540
🕊️: Peace Advent and our birthday party🎉
⭐️: Christmas Eve Service on 12/24
🪩: NYE Prayer and Worship Night to ring in 2024!

Last Sunday🫶🏼

Continuing our trek through The Gospel According to John with our favorite church family!

We love getting to be together on Sundays, it’s our favorite part of the week!

Upcoming!
•Today: Work Wednesday at the 1540 💻
•Tomorrow: Women’s Finer Things Friendsgiving at 7pm! Bring a dish to share and a friend! 🦃👯‍♀️
•Sunday: Morning Gatherings PLUS SOUPER FRIENDSGIVING at 5:30pm! RSVP, it’s not too late! 🍲
•December 8th is our annual Volunteer Christmas Party🎄

Happy Tuesday Contrast Fam!

2nd week of John ✅
We’re in the early beginnings of our new series The Gospel according to John. 🎉

It’s been so fun to get to read verse by verse with all of you.
Hope to see you this upcoming Sunday 9am or 10:45am!

THIS WEEK!
-Co-Working Wednesday all day at the 1540. Free drip coffee and pals doing work! ☕️💻

NEXT WEEK!
-Little Bottoms x Tavern MC fundraiser! Monday October 16th at 7pm! Seventh Sons on 4th! $1 for select drinks will be donated to Little Bottoms. Come on out! 🍻👶🏼

We love you!!!! 🫶🏼

Happy Fall ya’ll! Hope you’re enjoying a pumpkin spice steamer or coffee like our friends at church this past Sunday! 🎃☕️ Huge shoutout to !

We started our new series, The Gospel according to John. We will be working verse by verse through this gospel until Easter! If you missed this past sunday, you can listen on our podcast.

Things for you to look out for👀
- We’re switching to google chats🎉 If you’ve been in our database, you should have received an invite to join our chats! If not, fill out a connect form.
- Info on our Little Bottoms and Tavern MC fundraiser coming up!
-Co-Working Wednesdays at the 1540.
-November 5th: The Living Room. Come learn more about Contrast Church. Plus, we typically have chipotle catering🫶🏼🌯

A quick look into our busy holiday months. 🎃🦃🎄🪩
You will want to be at all of these things, so add them to your calendar.
-October 29th: Brunch Parties!🥓🥞🍳 You can sign up to host or join a group to invite community members and friends to share a meal with.
-November 19: Souper Friendsgiving
-December 8: Volunteer Christmas Party. (Fill out our QR code to serve to snag an invite! You still have time!😉)
- December 31st: New Year’s eve prayer and worship night. Wrap up this year with us🪩

We love you and are so excited to keep worshiping together! See ya’ll next Sunday💌

The second week of our mini series, More than Sunday was yesterday!

Huge thank you to Shayna, Trevor and Mark for sharing about their experiences from their Core Groups, our version of a small group. A Core is a group of 4-5 people, same gender that meets and focuses on confession, outreach, reading and empowerment. If you’re looking for a way to go deeper, the core interest link is in our bio!

Family Presentations were yesterday as well. We love our Contrast families so very much! What a gift it is to come alongside the Burkes, Pfisters, Smiths, Thompsons, and Gilmores and love their little ones!

Upcoming!
9/20: Coworking Wednesday at 1540! Free Drip Coffee and friends. Would love to see ya’ll there.

9/22-24: Fall Retreat on Vocation and Eternity is THIS WEEKEND. Still a few day spots left! You don’t want to miss this!

9/24: Sunday Gathering 9am and 1045am! Can’t wait to worship together.

Love you guys!

The Summer of James! We got to hear from our dear friend Jerry this past Sunday! What a gift it was!

We have some exciting things coming up!
•Wednesday 8/23 we have a morning of prayer at 6:30am. Chick fil a will be provided!
•Family dedications are coming up on September 17th. Let us know if you would want to take this step!
•Fall Retreat in Hocking Hills is September 22-24! Spots filling up fast. Link to sign up is in our bio! We hope to see you there!

We love you! Can’t wait to be together again!

What a beautiful Baptism Sunday.

We had the honor and gift to watch 7 of our Contrast friends be baptized.

What raw unfiltered joy and love bursts from these sweet moments.

As Heaven rejoices, so do we. We love these friends and are so proud of them!

In Grandview as it is in Heaven!

THIS SUNDAY!

Church in the Park! We will have one service at 9:30am at Wyman Woods! Located on the corner of Goodale and Grandview Ave.

Kids are welcome, the playground and coloring sheets will be available for them.

Drip coffee and cold brew will be available.

Bring a chair and a friend! We can’t wait to see you 🫶🏼

BAPTISM SUNDAY IS UPON US!

This Sunday, we’re going to celebrate 7 of our close friends! They have decided to declare Jesus as Lord over their lives. You do not want to miss this.

Where: Trey and Sarah’s house (891 W 9th Ave)
When: 10am

If you are thinking about getting Baptized, it’s not too late. There is a link for that as well in our weekly email 🫶🏼

Pay close attention to your email for a detailed parking guide! As well as the RSVP link! Bring a chair and a side/dessert to share, we’ll supply the pizza!

Can’t wait to celebrate with ya’ll!

WOW.

Our pledge Sunday accumulated $356,016 in pledges and estimated year-end gifts over the next 5 months!

We are so grateful for the generosity of our church community and those who are supporting us from a distance.

We are prayerfully looking forward to how we can steward these funds to secure a permanent space in Grandview for our church and local community!

Continue praying for us as we discern how to be faithful on this journey!

MC HIGHLIGHT FRIDAY🌸💕🎀👛✨🫧🛼

This one goes out to all the ladies!

Women’s Finer Things is a missional community focused on bringing women together and creating fun spaces to appreciate the finer things in life.

Most notably in the past, the Galentines day, Coffee Cupping, Charcuterie boards, Clay Earring making.

AND TOMORROW! Barbie Movie night🎀🎥 Head to the 1540 for a Pink Themed Happy Hour around 5:30 followed with a trip to the Lennox Theater to see the new Barbie Movie!

We hope to see all the ladies there sporting their best pink outfit! 💕👛🛼🫧

Summer Sundays are just sweeter when they are spent together!

Big thanks to Adam for teaching us this past weekend. We love getting to learn from our friends!

Upcoming things!

- We have the Living Room this sunday 7/16! This is the first step to our membership process, we hope to see you there. RSVP in the linktree!

-Baptism Sunday is 7/30!!! Fill out our baptism form if you’re interested.

-Prayer room is open every Wednesday! It’s been such a sweet space for our church to pray for and alongside each other. Sign up for a time slot next week, you won’t regret it!

Love you all so much! See you this Sunday!

Its Fridayyyyy, you know what that means!

Missional Community Highlight day!

This week, we’re talking about Women’s Book Club!

Ladies being ladies and reading books! This MC meets monthly and the next meeting is July 8th at 9am at Boston Stoker.

Currently reading:
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister.

“We started to create a space for women to have a place to have meaningful conversations, build relationships, and read good books together!” - Sarah Muha, Women’s Book Club MC member!

Buy the book, visit the library, download on your kindle and get reading with friends!

Sundays spent together are special! We are so thankful for those that come and worship with us. We’re working through the book of James, and getting to hear from some guest speakers this summer. You don’t want to miss it!

Don’t forget about worship night this Thursday! 7pm! 1355 Mulford Ave. It’s going to be so good. Bring your friends and families!

As always, join us on Sundays, I’ve been told there is a free coffee from waiting for you!

Rumor on the street is we have news to share with you, that will be revealed soon! Turn on our post notifications so you don’t miss it!

WE ARE PUMPED!
If you missed us this morning, we have a very special announcement!

Watch the Video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFfASusxZmA

Read more :
https://www.contrast.church/theking

Pledge Form :
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3trnRmPodZFwttDcFS7wsRyGTelnW10j-aLYtMHb0AO7FMA/viewform?usp=sf_link

The KING 2023