Club Gym Night -  Wednesday night is gym night for Club kids.  The kids will be at Gretna Elementary School (not the middle school).   This coincides with the normal club time - Wednesday night from 6:45 to 8:10pm.  Please drop off on the EAST side of the school (the parking lot there).  

Pinewood Derby Workshop -  The second workshop for Wednesday night club kids (ages K-5th grade) is Saturday morning at 10am.  The workshops are an opportunity to build the car (the pinewood car kit is free from SSB).   The final two workshops are 3/2 and 3/9.   The Pinewood Derby is March 13th - that night, friends/parents/grandparents may all join and cheer on the racers .

TLT - Continuing on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 is the annual Teen Life Truths training for 6th graders and older.  This week is session # 6.

Info Class (Membership) - An information class begins this Sunday morning for any interested in learning more about SSB and possibly pursuing membership.  The three-session class will be March 3, 10 and 17 during the Sunday school hour (8:45 - 9:45am).

Directory Photos - The 2024 directories are coming soon.  Sunday morning before and after service you may stop in downstairs to have your photo taken.   You may also email a recent photo to the office (a certain cropping is needed - so not all photos can be used).  

Worship music at the end?  We ended the service in praise to our glorious God.   Thus, we had an early sermon.  Perhaps the music we closed with will carry many through the week - it is good to have a song of praise in your heart towards God.  Thank you to all who lead us in music each week!  

We moved forward in 1st John 5 considering our God who "gets us" - Jesus, He gets us.  We played on the wording from the popular and controversial ad campaign.   Jesus was the Messiah (Christ) who came to save us.   He washed feet but only His disciples; and one of them was condemned to hell.  God gave three witnesses to Jesus being the Christ:  the water, blood, and Spirit.   We who have this testimony should share it with everyone.  Perhaps we do acts of service for others we encounter but may we always help them understand the true gospel message - that they are sinners but Christ died for them.  

Noah was the one man in a wicked generation that found favor in God’s eyes.  He walked with God.   He is also described as being a “righteous man, blameless in his generation.”  Surrounded by wickedness, Noah obeyed God, trusted God, served God, and believed God.  Imagine the scoffing he would have heard as he built a ship in the middle of the countryside.  Imagine the laughter when he described a worldwide flood to a people who had never experienced a small one.  Imagine the jeering from a people who had gone from a perfect garden less than 2,000 years before to being godless.  Noah was surely hated, despised and mocked for his sincere trust in God.   “By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith” (Hebr. 11:7).   God used Noah to save the world even though condemning the world.   God spared and used Noah.   God is worthy!