We in the church office, find the calendar is quickly filling up! Please make sure to take note of the following dates and times and update your personal calendars and check back in weekly for any updated information.  All weekly group meetings are anticipated to meet as scheduled this week. You may find these times and places in the church calendar found under the CONNECT tab.  

• The Youth Group will be heading to Lubbock next Tuesday, October 12th, for the Toby Mac concert. This concert has been rescheduled 3 times due to Covid so we are excited to finally be able to attend! The  group will be leaving the church parking lot by 3pm so if you are a part of the group going, please be sure that you are here no later than 2:45 p.m.
• A Fall Festival sign up sheet for food and candy has been created and can be accessed below.. The festival will be held Sunday, October 31st, from 4-7pm. We are preparing now and beginning to collect for this event. If you are able to help, please sign up! We will also need lots of volunteers with decorated trunks for treating, booth manning, food distribution and just general welcoming and greeting! Last year we had more than 700 people come through our parking lot and we are expecting more this year! Please make plans to help out! 
• Following on the heels of our Fall Festival, Saturday, November 13th, from 9-11am (or while supplies last), we will be serving our community by distributing turkey vouchers, canned or non-perishable Thanksgiving foods, jackets blankets and socks. This is a very large undertaking we are praying everyone in the body will get behind! We will begin a drive for these items(minus the turkey vouchers) beginning this Sunday. The amount of families we can serve will really depend on the amount we are able to collect, so please prayerfully consider giving. There will be a large red barrel in the foyer for you to make your donations.  In addition to your giving, we will need volunteers to be here to help with the actual distribution on the 13th. We will be sharing the distribution date with the families that come through for the Fall Festival, so the response has the potential to be very large. We will need all hands on deck! If this is something you would like to take part in, please contact Andrea in the church office as soon as possible. 
• Our Thanksgiving Pot Luck will be held Sunday, November 14th, immediately following the morning worship service. A sign-up sheet will be created and sent out soon! 
• The quarterly church family dinner has been scheduled for Wednesday, November 17th, at 6:30 pm. here at the church. This dinner and discussion time will be in lieu of the regular weekly cell group meetings. It is important that we keep the lines of communication open as important decisions will soon need to be made. Maybe more importantly, it is an opportunity to gather in His name and build relationship in the body. Mark your calendars, and make plans to come! Menu TBD.

Today marks the official start of the Autumn season and today there is a crispness to the air that was not present last week. As the seasons change and the calendar begins to fill up here are a few things we hope that you will plan for:

• Our weekly ministries are all scheduled for normal times and places at this point. You can find a list of these activities and times under the CONNECT tab on our website. Click on Calendar. If you have any questions, please contact your group leader or the church office. Parents, we have exciting news! We have  a new children's ministry offer for children ages 3-8 yrs. old. Debbi Corey and Barbara Aylor will be teaching our little ones. This will be held during the Couples Cell Group from 6:30p.m.-8:00p.m. Please bring your children already fed. There will be a light snack provided. If you have any questions please speak with Candy Phillips. 
• True-Lite will host their marriage retreat, A Perfect Strom. Friday, September 24th, from 6-8:30 pm and Saturday, September 25th, from 9 am-4 pm, cost is $60 per person. Please make plans to come, there is teaching for everyone! Register at truelite.org. Meals and childcare are provided.  
• The Administrative Committee is scheduled to meet Tuesday, September 28th, at 6:30p.m. These meetings are open to all church members to sit in and join in discussion, although decisions are solely voted on by ADCOM members. Any member who would like to be a part of the discussion of business presented at this month's meeting is invited to join.
• Deaconesses meet Thursday, September 30th, at 10am
• A response form has been sent out for the upcoming Baked Potato Fundraiser. We haven't received very many responses as of yet, please take a moment to fill this out and submit it so that the deaconesses can begin to prepare. If you do not have the email, the form can be found under the Newsletter tab on our website, just a few a posts below this one. 
• A Fall Festival sign up sheet has been created and can be accessed below.. The festival will be held Sunday, October 31st. We are preparing now and beginning to collect for this event. If you are able to help, please signs up!

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Directory Update
We want to keep our directory as up-to-date as possible, The best way to do that if for each of us to manage your own profile. Please take a moment now to go to our church directory which is located on our website midlandalliance.church under the CONNECT tab and click on Directory. You have all been given your own personal login credentials. Simply login, check your information, and make any updates needed. Also, many of you have not yet  uploaded a picture to your profile. Please upload a picture of your choosing so that you can be easily identifiable. Thank you for your help!

The Deaconesses' Baked Potato Fundraiser will be held Sunday, October 3rd following the morning worship service.
They will need an approximate count of how many potatoes to prepare. If you plan in participating in this fundraiser, please take a moment to fill out the response form below. Donations will go toward the Deaconess Fund which is where these ladies draw from to provide many ministries here in the church.