This past Friday we hosted our second blood drive in 3 months.  Lakeside does this in partnership with the American Red Cross.  We exceeded our quota once again….maybe next time they’ll finally bring in one of their mobile units!  Anyway, I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who participated!  We look forward to more successful events like this in the future.

We’ve partnered with the American Red Cross to host our first community blood drive! On Good Friday, April 2nd from 3pm to 8pm, we would like to invite the community to give the gift of life by signing up on the form below! Choose a timeframe that you would prefer and we will contact you to confirm your time! Thank you so much for supporting this community effort!

This year we will be celebrating Easter and the theme of “The Gift of Life”. In addition to our Blood Drive on April 2nd, we will have two special weekend services on Palm Sunday (March 28th) and Easter Sunday (April 4th). We have some great live music planned, as well as a two part message over the two Sundays.

If you would like to attend these special services with your family, you can join us at 10:00am. We would love to have you! We have a vibrant children’s ministry and fully staffed nursery for your convenience. For more information, please contact us at 801-814-5741.

Parenting…From The Heart

This May, from Mother’s Day to Father’s Day, we will be teaching through a very special series called “Parenting From The Heart”.  You will never have a bigger responsibility in your life than that of raising your children.  We want to invite you and your family to join us for this special series!  Check back to this page for more details in April!

On February 13th we will be showing the movie Fireproof at the church and we would like to invite everyone out to see it with us!  This is a free event and we want you to be a part of it.  If you would like to go, please let us know on Facebook!  The official event page is found here…

While the international community rallies to meet urgent needs — from food, water and medical services to transportation and security, relief agencies are moving quickly to build the financial resources that will be required to fund the massive effort.  But before aid can reach those most in need, the infrastructure for delivering the aid must be repaired. Military teams from other countries have already begun establishing communications, transport and security services — critical needs in a country where government offices and basic infrastructure were destroyed by the most powerful earthquake in 200 years.

According to Haiti’s prime minister, the death toll among Port au Prince’s 3 million inhabitants could top 100,000.

What you do not know is that Haiti has a significant Christian presence. The Florida Baptist Convention has started 890 new churches in the past five years.  Much of the ongoing relief work in Haiti relates and connects to the church.  The best relief would be to partner with Christian organizations and let them give out the physical relief with the spiritual relief of the Gospel.

To that end, we are recommending two organizations through which donations may be made.  Samaritan’s Purse, better known for Operation Christmas Child, has partnered with mission hospitals in Haiti for more than 30 years.  Already they plan to deliver 3,000 shelters to Haiti immediately, in addition to medical supplies, with several hundred more shelters being delivered each week.  Southern Baptist Disaster Relief will have evaluation teams in Haiti this weekend.  Water purification, meals and clean-up tend to be their specialty and their presence will remain for many months in the future.  Training and mission opportunities are available to us through SBC Disaster Relief.

We have included on-line donation links to these two organizations below.  Additionally, any money given toward this relief effort on Sundays will be forwarded to either of these two agencies.

Haiti Disaster Relief Donation links:

Samaritan’s Purse

SBC Disaster Relief

For the next 4 weeks, we will be studying a series called “Live Like You Were Dying.”  The series, based on the popular Tim McGraw Song will challenge us to speak sweeter, love deeper, give forgiveness and embrace eternity.  This is a great series to bring your friends out to as we will have great music and high quality messages.

In conjunction with the series, all of the life groups will be studying the same material in their group.  We want to invite everyone to attend a life group during this time.  If you don’t already have a group, just let us know on Sunday and we’ll introduce you to one of the leaders.

You can order your life group guide online today by visiting the Lakeside Store.

The band recently recorded 3 songs for a Chrismas demo cd as a gift for our Lakeside Church family.  We handed them out this Sunday.  It’s not mastered (recorded at the Jones’ house), so the volume is low, but the mix is pretty good and we’re pretty proud of it!  In case you missed last Sunday or you need another copy, you can download the the songs individually under our podcast page or use the links below!

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After participating in two breakthrough ministry events in our church this fall, the Lakeside Church student group has launched a brand new website called youthlegacymission.org to highlight ministry efforts in the community.  Earlier this fall, the students collected hygiene kits for St. Anne’s Rescue Mission in downtown Ogden (watch the video here).  They also stayed to serve food and help with some projects at the mission.  In October, the students helped to collect gift boxes for Operation Christmas Child.  2010 is ripe with potential for the students and we’ll be watching for highlights on their new website.

We run two 13 week Financial Peace University Classes.  Sign up today for our 2010 spring class!  91 days to beat debt and build wealth!  See our official FPU page here!