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Our Senior Adult group will be touring the 3 Purdue Animal Hospitals on May 24 at 11:30am. The tour will last approximately 1½ hours followed by a light lunch at Faith West. The cost for the tour and lunch is $7 per person and the tour is limited to 20 people. Register at ecclife.net/vet if you are interested!

Our high school students are faising money for the Community Live-In with a FREE Car Was on Friday, June 2nd from 2-5pm and Saturday, June 3rd from 8-11am here in the church parking lot. The car wash is FREE because the students are getting family and friends to sponsor our team to wash as many cars as possible for 6 hours only. If you would like to support our students’ efforts, you can do so in three different ways: 1) Sponsor or make a flat donation to our team by contacting any of the students or leaders directly, 2) Bring your car to be washed, and 3) Volunteer to help our team rinse, scrub, wash and dry cars so that we can make the process as fast as possible. Please see Pastor Chuck Potts for details and questions.

Sunday mornings at 9:00am in person in the Great Room. The Adult Sunday School Class is starting a series on a book by Tim Keller entitled Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?

• Wednesday Morning Men's Fellowship: Men, please join us each week at 6:30am. The ECC Wednesday Morning Men’s group has started a new study using the book Vanishing Grace by Philip Yancey. This group is currently meeting via Zoom. For an invite, please email Ken Ritchey. (mailto:kritchey@tds.net) We'd love to see you there!

• Wednesday Evening Group: Pastor Kurt’s weekly study, currently studying 1 Peter, meets at 6:30pm on Wednesdays in Room 10. We hope you can join us.

• Coffee and Murals: Gather on May 25 at Sacred Grounds Reclaimed (724 Wabash Avenue) for a morning of conversation and connection. Breakfast and coffee available for purchase. Drop by any time between 9:00-11:00am. Then at 11:00am, we will start the mural walk through the neighborhood. We hope you can join us! https://ecclife.net/coffee

• Ladies Dinner Out: Ladies, on June 14 at 6:00pm, we will be gathering for dinner at Christos, 3291 Teal Rd, Lafayette. We will have dinner and an evening of conversation and connection with other women. The only cost is what you pay for your own dinner. We hope to see you there! RSVP is appreciated. Sign up here: https://ecclife.net/dinner.

• High School Night: Our last H.S. Youth Group Night for the school year will be Wednesday, May 24. All 8th – 12th grade students are invited! We will meet an hour early (5:30pm) and have dinner together as a part of our night together. We hope to see all our ECC students and friends there!

• Fusion: Students in 6th through 12th grade are invited to join us on Sunday nights at Fusion during the school year! We meet with three other Lafayette south side churches for a combined youth group experience, and we rotate locations each month. We will meet at Innovation (2502 Mondavi Blvd.) May 21 from 5:15-7:00pm.

Our 4th and 5th grade students are invited to join us TODAY after church for lunch, Bible study, games, and more! We’ll meet over in the Life Center, starting after worship, and going until 1:45pm. Friends are welcome to join us! Please contact Pastor Kristin for more details.

kmueller@ecclife.net

Each year, delegates from Covenant Churches across the country meet to celebrate the mission of the Covenant church, vote on the budget, make policy decisions, welcome new churches, ordain clergy and missionaries, and pray and worship together. This year, the Annual Meeting of our denomination will take place in Garden Grove, California June 29-July 1. ECC can send up to four delegates to this meeting. Registration fees will be paid and scholarships for travel costs are available. Please email council@ecclife.net if you are interested in taking part. You can learn more here: http://www.covchurch.org/gather.

Calling all heroes! We need you to join us for Summer XP, our kids summer Bible experience, June 5-9! Join us at Miller Elementary each evening as we answer the call to serve God, bring peace, and build each other up. Every hero has a role to play, so we hope to see you there! Register here: https://ecclife.net/xp!

We are looking for specific materials for some of the science activities that we will be doing at Summer XP this year. If you’d like to make a donation, please check out our list of needs below. We will be collecting empty plastic water bottles (12-20oz size) and paper towel tubes at church from now until Summer XP. There will be a collection box in the church lobby where you can drop these things off.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B054AAAAA2EA3FB6-summer

Our next congregational meeting TODAY at 1pm. This will be an in-person meeting, only. We will hear ministry and financial reports and vote on new members and more. Some of the voting may be done electronically, so everyone should bring a phone, tablet, or computer to participate.

If you have not yet signed up for a LifeGroup (our small groups ministry), but might be interested in the future, please let us know by signing up on the link below. We will keep you updated when groups are open and new groups are being formed. We plan to do this two or three times a year. Sign up at https://ecclife.net/lifegroups

Applications are being accepted through May for the Luella Larson Scholarship for attending North Park University or Seminary. Regular attendees of an Evangelical Covenant church in Indiana are eligible. The amount awarded is based on the number of qualifying applicants and the number of credit hours registered for the 2023-2024 academic year. Applicants should fill out the attached application and email it to council@ecclife.net by May 31st. The Lafayette ECC council will determine the award amounts and inform applicants by June 30, 2023.

Application: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qiLKiIJUMNKmBCtwMT75L9uIE16mQxGeYOm5F-JoR_c/edit

Soul Training: Spiritual growth (transformation) comes when we participate with the Holy Spirit through "training our souls". We can pursue this work by engaging in practices that create space for God to do His forming work in us.

Because sometimes it is hard to know where to start or it is helpful to explore new practices, we have created and curated resources to help us invest in our own spiritual formation, individually and together.

As always, we invite you to do as you can, not as you can't. Consider choosing one practice to explore as you engage with God. https://ecclife.net/soul-training

• Daily Audio Bible: There is still time to join a Daily Audio Bible group. In about 20-30 minutes per day, you will hear the entire Bible in a year! We are making this journey together, listening to God’s word independently yet encouraging each other and sharing the truths God reveals to us for the first time or in new and exciting ways. Want to make this journey in community? Sign up to join a men's or women's group. Visit the Daily Audio Bible page find out more and sign up for a group.

https://ecclife.net/dab

(women) https://ecclife.net/dab-journey

(men) https://ecclife.net/dab-men

• 30-Day Gospel Reading Plan: One of the best ways to get to know God is by getting to know Jesus. One of the best ways to get to know Jesus is by regularly reading the gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. We are encouraging each of us to be intentional about how we engage with God through scripture in 2023 and to move toward having a regular rhythm of engaging with God and his word. We have a guide available at here (https://ecclife.net/30-day-gospel-reading-plan). (There are multiple options so each of us can choose a plan that works for us to be in God’s word.)

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