Anchor Church: Seattle, WA http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog Blog for Anchor Church in Seattle, WA. FamilyWorks Book Drive 4/15-22 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/familyworks-book-drive-4-15-22 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:55:00 -0700 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/familyworks-book-drive-4-15-22 Anchor Church will be collecting books for FamilyWorks, Wallingford's food bank and family resource center, to donate to their Literacy Day. Please consider bringing new or gently used books to our Sunday gatherings April 15th and 22nd. Books for all age groups (0-18) needed. Have some board books your kids have outgrown? Or maybe you've read the Hunger Games series and are ready to pass it on. Whatever you may have, we hope you'll join us in supporting this wonderful organization!

]]> Bring Food For Our Homeless Neighbors http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/bring-food-for-our-homeless-neighbors Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:00:00 -0800 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/bring-food-for-our-homeless-neighbors The Gospel is a message that demands a response.  We have been served by Jesus and in turn we get to serve. This month we are going to give of what we have to help provide food for our homeless neighbors in Wallingford. We will collect food for Family Works on 45th every Sunday in February. 

Specific items you can bring: Vienna sausages, individual fruit cups, and canned tuna fish.

]]> Wrap-Up: 13% Project http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/wrap-up:-13--project Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:20:00 -0800 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/wrap-up:-13--project This past Christmas season, Anchor Church took on the 13% Project, asking church members to prayerfully consider setting aside 13% of their Christmas budget to bless others. The number was chosen based on an article in the Seattle Times stating that the cost of living in Seattle had risen 13% in only two years. As a church we were able to bless a struggling family by purchasing all the items on their Christmas wish list, ensuring that the two children had plenty of presents to unwrap under the tree. We also filled over two dozen handmade stockings (sewn by church members) with warm socks and other items that we donated to Family Works, a local non-profit working with homeless men, women and children. The stockings were passed out to the homeless on Christmas Day. We share this not to pat our own backs, but to show how God is working through our church to love and bless those in need. We know that all we have is a gift from God and it is a blessing to share that with our city. We pray that God will continue to open up opportunities for Anchor Church to love and reach out to Seattle and the people here who so desperately need Him.

]]> 13% For Seattle http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/13--for-seattle Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:05:00 -0800 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/13--for-seattle In a recent article on the Seattle P.I. Blog stated the cost of living in Seattle has increased 13% since 2009.

 

Jesus said in Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and my burden is light."  What would it look like to follow Jesus' by offering to carry the burdens of others to free them from their weariness. How much more easily a person can come to hear and accept the Gospel if those who are sharing it with them have first relieved some of their worry and stress. How much more genuine an invitation to a transformed life in Christ when we lead by humbly following Christ's example.


So what if we did it? What if everyone in Anchor Church committed to using 13% of our Christmas budgets to bless Seattle? There are people here in our own city who desperately need help. These are our neighbors who are trying to hold on to their homes; our co-workers who don't have health care and are facing mounting bills; the person we sit next to on the bus who can't afford to fix their car; the parents at our PTSA meetings who are wondering how to explain to their kids why there won't be gifts this year under the tree. These are people we talk to everyday at the grocery store or the bank or the cleaners without ever knowing the pain, fear and struggle going on under the surface.

Times are tough for everyone. We live in an expensive city that desperately needs Jesus. We can't solve all of our city's problems, but we can make a difference for some who are struggling. I hope you'll join us this Christmas in blessing our neighbors.

 

Three ways you can get involved

1. Partner with you community group to relive a need that you or someone in your group is aware of.

2. Anchor is sponsoring a family in need from the Wallingford Boys & Girls Club with many needs that you can help with.

3. We are assembling care stockings geared towards helping homeless people for Family Works, a food bank in Wallingford.

4. You can give finically to this work by on Sunday or through the mail (8560 Greenwood Ave N #804, Seattle, WA 98103) and indicate that it is for 13%. 

 

You can find more info on The City or by emailing life@anchorseattle.org. 

]]> Anchor Church Needs Jesus, So Let's Fast Together http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/anchor-church-needs-jesus--so-lets-fast-together Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:05:00 -0800 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/anchor-church-needs-jesus--so-lets-fast-together "A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses." Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

 Anchor Church is a community of people that desires to know Jesus and wants others to know Jesus; the only way either of those things happens is by and through the work of Jesus.  

 

 Sunday I preached on feasting and fasting and called our community to commit to fasting and praying each Wednesday. We fast because we are needy for Jesus. We don’t fast because we are strong, we fast because we are weak. We abstain from the gift that is food because sometimes our appetite for food is greater than our appetite for the Person who gave us the food. We don’t live only on food, “but on every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4).  

 

 When we fast we demonstrate our dependence on Jesus. We don’t fast to earn anything from Him.  We fast because we need Jesus more than anything. It is in our weakness, neediness, and dependence that Jesus moves through us. Jesus is the one who has come to serve (Mark 10:45), and it is in our weakness that He moves through us (2 Corinthians 4:7).

 

 We will commit every Wednesday to praying and fasting for Anchor Church, the other churches in our city, and for the people of Seattle.

 

For a short weekly fast, I recommend abstaining from food starting after dinner on Tuesday night, and then breaking the fast at dinner time on Wednesday.  If health concerns or other circumstances prevent you from a food fast, I would encourage you to join us in fasting from something else, perhaps music for a day.

 

 Listen to last Sunday's sermon or grab the app for your phone. 

]]> Food Drive For Family Works in Wallingford http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/food-drive-for-family-works-in-wallingford Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:30:00 -0800 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/food-drive-for-family-works-in-wallingford We will be collecting food for The Family Works Resource Center, a food back just up the street from where Anchor Church gathers.  For the next 3 Sundays you can bring non-perishable food items and help stock the food bank. All non-perishable items will be accepted, but Items specifically requested are sardines, crackers, fruit cups, tuna, juices, peanut butter, top ramen, soups, and stews.  

Bring Food on Sunday - 11/13, 11/20 & 11/27

 

]]> Green & Clean - This Saturday http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/green--clean---this-saturday Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:35:00 -0700 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/green--clean---this-saturday Anchor Church loves Wallingford and as a community we're getting together to help pick up trash in our neighborhood. On Saturday, we will meet in front of the Wallingford Boys & Girls Club at 10am. We will work until noon and rally up to Zeeks Pizza for lunch together. Everybody is welcome!

Rain or Shine!

For more info email life@anchorseattle.org.

]]> This Week 10.13.11 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/this-week-10-13-11 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:06:00 -0700 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/this-week-10-13-11 Jesus & The Gospel 8 Week Class Starts This Tuesday

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Ushers

Serve by welcoming Anchor and our guests to our Sunday service email Joe Filburn (joe@anchorseattle.org) for more info or sign up. 

 

Green & Clean Nov 5

 Help clean up Wallingford with Anchor Church. Read more...

 


 

Get involved in a community group this week read more...

Find a place to serve Anchor read more...

This weeks sermon from Mark's Gospel is now available. Get it on iTunes or listen on the on the Anchor Church App. 

]]> This Week 9.30.11 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/this-week-9-30-11 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.anchorseattle.org/blog/post/this-week-9-30-11 Who is Jesus Starts This Sunday

 This week we dig into Mark’s Gospel read more...

 

Jesus & The Gospel 8 Week Class Starts Oct 17

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Green & Clean Oct 22

 Help clean up Wallingford with Anchor Church. Read more...

 

Ushers

Serve by welcoming Anchor and our guests to our Sunday service sign up...

 

Get involved in a community group this week read more...

Find a place to serve Anchor read more...

This weeks sermon from Jonah is now available. Get it on iTunes or listen on the on the Anchor Church App. 

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