Easter Weekend is now 3 weeks away! If you haven’t heard, we are having 6 services over 3 days – Friday, April 15th, 7pm; Saturday, April 16th, 4:30pm, 6pm; Sunday, April 17th, 8:30am, 10am, 11:30am. Go to www.easteratcoastal.com right now and let us know which service you and your guests will be attending. This helps us to know when a service reaches capacity. The general rule of thumb is come to the service your friends can attend. Historically, Sunday morning at 10am & 11:30am are the largest services. Unless your guests are coming to one of those services, please try to attend one of the other services to make room. Our goal is to have our Chapel ready for overflow.
Just like last Sunday, be prepared to take home all the Easter Invite Tools – tickets, books, and now YARD SIGNS! We’ll have 200 EasterAtCoastal.com yard signs that we want to saturate Charleston with this year! Pick up several and then strategically place them in neighborhoods, shopping centers, high traffic areas, and intersections. Take a picture of your sign and share it on social media with the hashtag: #easteratcoastal. While you’re on the Easter at Coastal page make sure you click on the “Download Shareable Easter Invite Images for Social Media” button. A zip file containing a folder of different images will automatically download on your computer (like the one above). Or you can simply click on this link and download them now! Start using these images on Facebook and Instagram to get the word out and invite people to Coastal for Easter.
I want to share with you the power of a simple invitation and leveraging Big Days like Easter to reach out and invite someone to church. We had a man that was invited and came to one of our Christmas Eve services this past year. He could not remember the last time he had been in church. He LOVED it and kept coming! About a month ago he started attending our Celebrate Recovery Group that meets at the church on Tuesday nights at 6:30pm. Are you ready for this? This past Tuesday night he gave his life to Jesus! Because someone reached out to him, because we leveraged a Big Day, that man stepped from Death to LIFE, was forgiven of his sin, was adopted into God’s forever family, and now has a home secured for all eternity in heaven! Coastal, that’s why we do what we do! Don’t you dare tell me that a ticket, a yard sign, a postcard, a post on social media, a simple invitation can’t make a huge IMPACT! So. . . who are you praying for, who are you inviting? Let’s do this Coastal! Let’s work, share, & invite like it all depends on us, pray like it all depends on God, walk by faith, trust God, and celebrate what God does in our midst!
This Sunday, we’ll be looking at the cross through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, a devoted servant. Don’t miss it! I love you Coastal and I love being your Pastor and being a part of the special thing that God is doing here!
LIFE & LOVE!
Pastor Chris
Here are this week’s “Friday 5”:
- UPCOMING OUTREACH PROJECTS:
Lowcountry Orphan Relief – Lowcountry Orphan Relief provides support services and aid to meet the needs of Lowcountry children identified as at-risk or suffering from abandonment, abuse and/or neglect. Coastal will be serving there, Friday (TODAY), March 25th, 9:30am-11:30am. Meet at 1850 Truxton Ave in North Charleston.
Clothing Team – Our Coastal Clothing Team will be organizing and sorting clothes Friday, April 1st & Friday, April 8th, 9am-11am. Meet at 2952 Old Pond Road on Johns Island.
Saturday Serve – The foundation of all of our serving opportunities at Coastal really starts with Saturday Serve – the first Saturday of every month. The next Saturday Serve is Saturday, April 2nd. We meet in the Welcome Center/Cafe at 8:30am, project leaders make a “pitch” for their serving opportunity, and then we serve! Two different Tailgate Parties go out from Saturday Serve!
PINK House – The PINK House is a community center in the Ardmore subdivision in West Ashley. We are going to be putting on a community Tailgate Party, Clothing Distribution, on Saturday, April 9th, 10am-1pm. Meet at Coastal.
Soldier’s Angels – We’ll be helping with the Veteran’s Mobile Food Distribution, Tuesday, April 12th, 8am-1pm. Meet at 1113 Sam Rittenburg Blvd. (The Elks Lodge).
Joseph Floyd Manor Tailgate – Our Tailgate will be rolling and serving our friends downtown at the Joseph Floyd Manor – Thursday, April 14th, 10am-1pm. Meet at the church.
As always, if you are interested in serving in any of these projects, you can sign up on your Connect Card this Sunday or sign up now on our website. If you have any questions, please reach out to Pastor Chris Jones at 843-870-4613. - Student Ministry Summer Camp! The deadline to sign your Student (6th-12th Grade) up for Summer Camp is April 1st! All 6th-12th grade students are invited to join us for an amazing week at Student Life Summer Camp in Lakeland, Florida on June 27-July 1. There will be hundreds of students from all over the southeast joining us for amazing music, messages specifically for teenagers, and great games and recreation! Total cost is $300 per person and friends are invited to join us too! Sign up on www.coastalcommunitychurch.org/connect/students today!! If you would like to sponsor a student or help provide a scholarship (full or partial), or if you have any questions about Camp, please reach out to Pastor Jacob Bonetti (our new Youth Pastor!) at 864-554-2371.
- Homeschool educators and their kids of all ages are invited to a HOMESCHOOL HANGOUT on Wednesday, March 30th, 10am-12noon, to meet and network with other Homeschool families at Coastal. We’ll have pizza for lunch and the Coastal Kidz playgrounds will be open for playtime. RSVP on your Connect Card or respond to this email so we’ll know how much pizza to order!
- New to Coastal? Join us in the Coastal Cafe or online Sunday, May 1st immediately following the 11:15am service for our next Newcomer’s Reception. Learn more about Coastal, meet staff and key volunteers, and get plugged in. Lunch & childcare provided. RSVP online or on your Connect Card on Sunday!
- Are you grieving the loss of a spouse or do you know someone who is? You are invited to join our FREE “Loss of a Spouse” Seminar through our Grief Share Support Group on Thursday, May 5th, 6:30-8:30pm at Coastal. Discover practical advice, support, prayer, and encouragement from others who’ve been there. Learn what to expect in your grief and how to cope with life without your spouse. Register at www.griefshare.org or call Freeda (540-903-5030) or Sue (616-443-6553).
P.S. 6 Services over 3 days for Easter means that it’s “all hands on deck.” WE NEED YOU TO PULL OFF EASTER WEEKEND! Make sure you reach out to your Ministry Leader NOW to let them know when you can serve over the Easter Weekend! Attend one service and then serve in MULTIPLE services! If you aren’t serving anywhere right now, Easter is a great time to start! Go to our website right now and sign up to serve! Or you can respond to this email or on your Connect Card on Sunday, and we’ll direct you to a Ministry.
