www.thejourneysite.org 6427 Franconia Road Springfield, VA 22150 Office 703-971-0277 JERRY JONES, Senior Pastor x102 jones.journey@verizon.net ADAM SCHUSTER Worship & Youth Pastor x104 schuster.journey@verizon.net DAVID SLEIGHT Discipleship & Outreach Pastor x103 sleight.journey@verizon.net MICHELLE D ANGELO Children s & Family Pastor x101 journeykidz@verizon.net JIM PRUITT ConneXion Ministries jptex1950@aol.com ELISSA MCGHEE Office Secretary x100 journeyoffice@verizon.net YOON OK CHOI Korean Fellowship x105

Love God Love Others Love the World! September 20, 2015 EVENTS THIS WEEK DAYS TIMES Morning Worship Journey Kidz Baby Zone (Infant - 24 months) Tot Zone (age 2-5) Live! Zone (K-6th grade) Bible Studies Adult Study (church office) Jr/Sr High (in the teen room) Korean Fellowship Today Today Today 9:30 am & 11:15 am 9:30 am & 11:15 am 9:30 am Back to Church Picnic Today! 12:45 pm Prayer Meeting Tonight 6:30 pm Healing Stitches Monday 9am-12pm Yoga Wednesday 6:30 pm Ladies Coffee Break Thursday 10:00 am Men s Event Saturday 6:00 pm Life Groups Meet - check out the flyer on the welcome desk for specific days and times Sun - Fri Various times

Upcoming Events Thank you for choosing to worship with us today! Please fill out a connection card and note any prayer requests and praises on the back. Thank You. TODAY! SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20: BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY Welcome to Back to Church Sunday! We hope you stay (or come back) for our church picnic after the second service (starting about 12:45 pm). We ll provide hamburgers, hotdogs, and all the fixings. Just bring a dessert to share! MONDAYS: HEALING STITCHES If you enjoy sewing, knitting, or other crafts, join Healing Stitches on Mondays between 9:00am-12:00pm at the Journey in the Journey Kidz area downstairs. Bring your supplies and enjoy fellowship with other crafters. Contact Cathy Drum with questions at lazy3shield@gmail.com. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26: MEN S EVENT The Journeymen s first men s event will be this Saturday, September 26 from 6:00-8:30 pm. We ll have food, fellowship, worship time, and discussion. All men are invited to attend. Contact Dave Sleight for more information, sleight.journey@verizon.net. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: WOMEN S MENTORING INFORMATIONAL MEETING Are you interested in spiritual growth through friendship? The Women's Ministry is hosting an informational meeting on mentoring. Whether you want to be a mentor or be mentored, please come on Sunday, September 27, for a short half hour information meeting after the second service (12:45 pm). A light snack and childcare will be provided. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: REFUEL APPLE PICKING Next Sunday Refuel is going apple picking for Koinonia. We ll meet at the church at 1pm, grab lunch, and go to a local orchard to pick apples to donate to Koinonia. We ll be back to the church by 5pm. Please contact Adam with questions, schuster.journey@verizon.net. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: PLAYGROUP Join us for a Fall Arts & Crafts playdate & snacks at Elise Blakemore s house, 10:00 am-12:00 pm. Please RSVP to Elise by September 27th at elisevs@gmail.com.

Announcements SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3: FOOD & FUNFEST FOR KOINONIA The Franconia area Christian faith community is sponsoring a family fun event on Saturday, October 3rd. Enjoy a day of good food, games for all ages, selfie booth, bounce house and other inflatables, live music by local performers and much, much more! Proceeds from the event will go to Koinonia -- a Christian non-profit organization that serves the Kingstowne-Franconia area by providing food, clothing and other short-term support to families and individuals in need. Cost is $5/person or $20/family. Children under age 4 are FREE! Food donations are also gratefully accepted. We pray that this event will both energize our own congregation and help develop inter-church relationships in our area. We will be providing our bounce house and grill for the food. If you are able to volunteer for any part of this great event, or if you want to provide baked goods for their bake sale, please sign up in the lobby. Contact Dave Sleight with questions, sleight.journey@verizon.net. Time: 11:00 AM until 4:00 PM. Location: Franconia United Methodist Church at 6037 Franconia Road, Alexandria. See the Koinonia web site for more details: koinoniacares.org. OCTOBER 29-NOVEMBER 1: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MISSIONS (ICOM) The church has already paid the admission for anyone in the church to attend ICOM in Richmond, VA. To get more information and see the schedule of events, go to the Journey Website, thejourneysite.org, under Outreach & Missions to get to ICOM s registration page, or go to ICOM s website, theicom.org. You can go for the whole weekend or just part of a day, it s up to you. If you are planning on going to ICOM, follow these instructions to register: 1. go to theicom.org/register/ 2. Scroll Down to Online Registration 3. Click the Individual Registration button, Register Now 4. Enter the Code: 2015ICOM, and click next. 5. Complete the page. Church name is The Journey, the rest of the page is for your personal information. Click next. 6. The next page is if you choose to add any Pre-Conference events or Special Events to your schedule. These are EXTRA, and not included in the fee that is already paid. (See the schedule of events to get more information about these extras.) Click next. 7. If you chose extra events, you will be prompted to enter your credit card information. 8. Once you complete that, you may get a pop-up box that says Company is a required field. Just put The Journey as the company. 9. Complete your registration by clicking Register at the end. MEDIA VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! The Sound & Media ministry is looking for people who can run media on Sundays! We especially need people who are familiar with powerpoint and presentation software, and who would enjoy being part of a team that is integral to the worship service. Some training on the software and other equipment used during the service will be needed. If interested, please contact Judy Davis at judydavis5839@gmail.com.

Announcements Welcome to Back to Church Sunday! September 20, 2015 Welcome to the Journey! We are so glad you came to Back to Church Sunday. We hope you stay (or come back) for our all-church picnic lunch! The picnic will be after the second service, starting at 12:45 pm. We ll provide hamburgers & hotdogs, sides, and all the ixin s for everyone, just bring a dessert to share. During the picnic, Journey Kidz will have tables set up for you to meet some of our awesome teachers. There will be tables for Baby Zone (birth-24 mo), Tot Zone (2-5 year olds), K-2nd, and 3rd-6th. Be sure to stop and chat with your children s teachers, or join them at their table for lunch!

Sermon Outline Defining Our Mission part 1 Love God Love Others Love the World Mark 12:28-30 (NLT), One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the debate. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, Of all the commandments, which is the most important? Jesus replied, The most important commandment is this: Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. John Piper, The weakness of our hunger for God is not because he is unsavory, but because we keep ourselves stuffed with other things If you don t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world that your soul is stuffed with small things and there is no room for the great things of God. Max Lucado, God rewards those who seek him. Not those who seek doctrine or religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus. It begins with a willingness and a desire to give ourselves to the one who gave Himself for us John Piper, Take all of your longing and focus it on God until he satisfies it completely.

Sermon Outline Psalm 42:1-2 (NCV), As a deer thirsts for streams of water, so I thirst for you, God. I thirst for the living God. When can I go to meet with him? A.W. Tozer, The sovereign God wants to be loved for himself and honored for himself, but that is only a part of what he wants. The other part is that he wants us to know that when we have him, we have everything It continues as we become broken people Proverbs 4:23, Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Ephesians 2:1-2 (MSG), It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. Revelation 2:4-5 (NCV), But I have this against you: You have left the love you had in the beginning. So remember where you were before you fell. Change your hearts and do what you did at first. Colossians 3:1-3, Since you were raised from the dead with Christ, aim at what is in heaven, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Think only about the things in heaven, not the things on earth. Your old sinful self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God. Reflection