Wellsprings Church is sponsoring the His Little Feet children’s choir to perform a free concert Wednesday, February 20th. His Little Feet is a choir made up of orphans from several different nations. They travel the U.S. each year raising awareness for the millions of orphaned children worldwide, and facilitate opportunities for Americans to respond to their needs through giving, sponsoring, going, and adopting.

Please come and enjoy this special worship concert on Wednesday, February 20th, 2013. Doors open at 6:30pm and the concert starts at 7:00pm.

Admission is FREE so please invite all your friends!

The concert will be held in the Chapel at MAF Headquarters, 112 N Pilatus Ln, Nampa, ID 83687.

A love offering will be taken during the event. All proceeds will go to the His Little Feet ministry. Refreshments will be provided after the concert.

For more information about His Little Feet, please visit www.hislittlefeet.org

Join Wellsprings Church as we pack boxes for Operation Christmas Child 2012! It’s a simple and fun way family evangelism tool to spread the gospel message.

WHAT:  Watch the video above to get a brief idea of what Operation Christmas Child is about.  For more videos and info – see Samaritan’s Purse

website.

HOW:   Pick up your box at Church on November 11 or pack your own shoebox according to Samaritan’s Purse   (click for details on how to pack your shoebox)

WHEN:  Boxes need to be packed and brought to church on Nov 18, 2012 and we will ship them for you — or ship them yourself

Need more info?  See Samaritan’s Purse website (click link to follow) or contact the Elders@wellspringschurch.com

• Are you a dad, wanting to lead your family biblically, but don’t know how?

• Need some encouragement?

• Need the ammunition and supplies to be the husband and father God calls us to be?

• New to homeschooling and need information on how, what and why?

• Been homeschooling for a few years, need a booster shot or tap into some new energy or are you looking for that reminder as to why you are homeschooling?

Come to the Shepherds Conference!

Get connected, Be Encouraged, Learn something new, make New friends and Be Refreshed!

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Kevin Swanson

Home schooled himself in the 1960′s and 70′s, Kevin Swanson and his wife, Brenda, are now homeschooling their five children. Kevin has 35 years of experience in the homeschooling movement and serves as the founding director of Generations with Vision – a ministry he founded to strengthen homeschool families around the country.  As a father who wants to leave a godly heritage for his own five children, Kevin’s passion is to strengthen and encourage the homeschooling movement all over the world, and to cast a vision for generations to come.   For the last 7 years Kevin has hosted a daily radio program – Generations Radio – the world’s largest homeschooling and Biblical worldview radio program that reaches families across the US and in over 80 countries.  www.GenerationsWithVison.com

Phillip Telfer

Phillip Telfer has ministered to youth and families for over 20 years, sharing at camps, retreats, schools, conferences, and churches around the country. He is founder and director of Media Talk 101, a non-profit ministry dedicated to teaching media discernment in the light of following Christ. He also produced the award winning documentary “Captivated: Finding Freedom in a Media Captive Culture”. Phillip and his wife Mary have been married for 21 years and homeschool their 4 children. www.Mediatalk101.org

David Barrett

David Barrett with Biblical Worldview Learning Center- It is the goal and vision of the Biblical Worldview Learning Center to provide individuals, organizations, and ministries with distinctively Christian books, resources, seminars, and consultation. The founder of the BWLC, David Barrett is a veteran homeschooling Dad and conference speaker. He provides tutoring services to all ages, consultation for homeschooling families and seminars on homeschooling, family life and Biblical worldview. Visit www.biblicalview.com for more info.

Mary Ostyn

Mary Ostyn lives in Nampa, Idaho with her husband John and six of their ten children. The youngest six arrived via adoption. The oldest four have already graduated from homeschooling, headed off to college, and (in two cases) to marriage and motherhood. Rumor has it that her new grand-babies (both born this spring) will also be taught at home. Ostyn’s passions include: mothering, adoption, homeschooling, cooking, and encouraging other mothers on their parenting journey.  Her books include The Sane Woman’s Guide to Mothering a Larger Family and Family Feasts for $75 a Week. Ostyn’s favorite night of the week is Saturday, when everyone comes home for dinner. She blogs at http://owlhaven.net.

CONFERENCE DETAILS

WHEN: October 12 & 13, 2012

TIMES:  Saturday session – 6:30-8:30pm,  Sunday sessions 8:30am – 3:30pm

WHERE: Central Assembly Church, 12000 Fairview Ave. Boise, ID (Northeast corner of Cloverdale & Fairview)

COST:  $50.00 or Couple $35.00

REGISTRATION & MORE INFO

Go to www.one-anotherministries.com/shep

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At White Unto Harvest 2012 A Great Commission Mega-Conference (click link for more info on the conference) we will seek, by the grace of God, to unpack the Great Commission, as it applies to the individual, the home, and the church. There is no more powerful force at work in the world than the life-saving, culture-transforming, disciple making power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

With topics ranging from discipling your children to discipling the nations, to applying the Great Commission in the office, to street preaching, to counting the cost of following Christ, we desire to encourage a passion for fulfilling the Great Commission. We desire that Christ would be exalted in the Church and in all the nations of the earth.

We desire that we would be sent out from this conference – men, women, and children – with greater fervor to spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. If Christ is worth dying for, He is certainly worth living for.

This mega-conference will bring church leaders, evangelists, and whole families from across the country and from around the world. We will open to you the gospel and how we can proclaim its truth to those about us through our speech and behavior.

Please join us (along with your whole church) for this exciting conference on the Great Commission – White Unto Harvest 2012.

Wellsprings Church invites you to bring your family and join us for a night of bluegrass with the Wintons!

WHEN:  Sunday, September 2, 2012 @ 6PM-730 PM

WHERE: Amphitheater at Nampa’s Lakeview Park, 1227 East Orson F Persons Court (corner of Garrity Boulevard & 16th Avenue North)

COST:  FREE! (a love offering will be taken for the Wintons)

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN BLANKET AND/OR CHAIRS for the gentle, grassy slope of the amphitheater.

PASS IT ON!  Please forward this invitation to others who may want to join us.

QUESTIONS?  Email — info[at]wellspringschurch.com

WHAT: Bring your whole family and join Wellsprings Church for a viewing of the movie, Gather the Family!  We will be having pizza starting at 5pm and the movie will begin at 6pm.

WHEN: Saturday, March 3, 2012. Pizza at 5pm, Movie at 6pm.

WHERE: Wellsprings Church meets at the Thomas Jefferson Charter School. 1209 Adam Smith Ave. Caldwell , ID 83605

WHY: At Wellsprings, we encourages families to prioritize their schedule so that they can spend time together in family worship – this movie focuses on that how to make that happen and shows you simple, practical ways to start if you are not currently in the habit of doing this!

COST: FREE Movie AND FREE pizza – you can’t beat that!

HOW: Please RSVP so that we can get an accurate count of how much pizza we need and how many will be attending.  RSVP by replying to our E-vite on Facebook or by emailing us: info[at]wellspringschurch.com

More info about the movie is below:

Gather the Family celebrates the “invitation to joy” that’s at the heart of family worship.

Modern busy lifestyles conspire against families taking the time to gather together. But Gather the Family visits families across the country who are enjoying the benefits that abound when families take even a few minutes to worship God together during the week.

Far from a burden or drudgery, this film reveals the joy that emerges when family worship becomes a priority in the home.

Family worship holds the lasting value of building biblical truths in the foundation of a family. The experience also forges family unity in a uniquely rewarding way.

Much more than just a “how-to” instructional guide, Gather the Family inspires and encourages families to accept the “invitation to joy” that’s offered when they gather for family worship.

For trailer and previews, go to the Franklin Springs Media web page.

Recently, I reflected back on the Christmas season and I was struck by one element that hadn’t occurred to me before. Usually my thinking goes to the incarnation and Jesus coming as the King of kings, but instead I began to ponder the family that Jesus was placed into. Mary was an ordinary girl in an ordinarily town who was betrothed to an ordinary man.  What was so special about Mary and Joseph?  The Bible doesn’t say a whole lot about either of them; of Mary it remarks that she “found favour with God” (Lk 1:30) and Joseph was referred to as a “just man” (Mt 1:19) when he graciously tried to end their betrothal quietly rather than subjecting Mary to public humiliation.  The fact is, what Mary and Joseph did out of loving obedience to God, is that they had a baby, they had a home, they lived life in a normal first-century fashion.

Now this baby was the Lord Jesus Christ, God very God, and the majesty of what took place cannot be fully comprehended, but from Mary and Joseph’s day to day experience, they were parents. Mary kept busy with her duties while Joseph was working as a carpenter (or builder).  They had other children to raise and at some point Joseph drops out of the picture (presumably he must have died), so Mary had to continue life alone.

The lesson that we can draw from this and apply to our lives, is that our seemingly mundane life, with its daily problems and successes has tremendous value if lived under the Lordship of Christ!  If God saw fit to place His only Son into the care of a normal family, then our normal families can bring glory to God without having to do “extraordinary” things.

2 Corinthians 4:7 says “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us”.  We are simple clay pots. The extraordinary thing is not us, but Christ.  Just as Joseph and Mary were privileged with Jesus as a baby we are privileged to have Christ in us so that He can be glorified as He works through us in the day to day things of life.

Wellsprings Church will not be holding service on Sunday December 25, 2011.

Our Candlelight Christmas service will be held at 7pm on Friday, December 23, 2011 followed by a good dessert and great fellowship.

Hope to see you there!

If you bring your shoeboxes with gifts to Wellsprings on Sunday, Nov 20th, 2011 — we will drop them off for you!

Otherwise, Shoeboxes will be collected between Nov 14-21 at several locations locally.  (Click link to find local dropoff locations)

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point” – Attribution debated

“Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.” (2 Timothy 4:2)

How often is the Christian church so loudly proclaiming the truth of Scripture but failing to fight the battle that rages the most?  We are called to proclaim the Word, but if we do so eloquently and powerfully 99% of the teachings of Scripture yet fail to proclaim the 1% that will anger the masses, we really have failed to do what 2 Tim 4:2 is commanding.

What are such issues?  What about the sufficiency of Scripture over ALL areas of life (not just church or “spiritual” issues)?  Should God, through His Word, govern the functioning of the family, church, business, economics, education, civil government?  Although we don’t have all the answers to all the questions about these topics (and others that aren’t list), does that mean that their aren’t precepts, principles, and patterns in Scripture that speak to them?  Should we just follow the accepted opinion of the day (even those in our circle of friends)?  No, we are called to proclaim that God proclaims.

Unfortunately, there are many battles raging today and it is difficult to take them all on, but we can begin by seeking the Lord and His Word for direction in critical areas, such as what is salvation, spiritual growth, God’s commands to us, family and church issues.  If we understand salvation and spiritual growth then we can walk in the commands of God in our families and churches.  If we get these right then we can speak to other issues that Scripture speaks to.

But what about disagreements in how the Scripture applies to various areas?  I think first of all we need to be humble about our positions because even the smartest and most educated can be wrong.  Second, in less important issues we need to be amiable with our fellow believers about these issues and discuss them lovingly.  Disagreements are a part of life but doing so without love is not honoring to Christ our King.

I pray that Wellsprings Church will be known as a church that lovingly proclaims the accepted portions of Scripture but also the unaccepted portions that are currently being attacked.  If we do this, then we can be good soldiers of Christ willing to battle where He wants us to battle.