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 27, 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) Today Today 9:30 am & 11:15 am 9:30 am & 11:15 am Adult Bible Study (church office) Today 9:30 am Jr/Sr High Bible Study (teen room) Today 9:30 am Refuel: Apple Picking Today 1:00 pm Pizza with the Pastor Tonight 5:00 pm Prayer Meeting Tonight 6:30 pm Healing Stitches Monday 9am-12pm Journey Moms Playgroup Tuesday 10:00 am Yoga Wednesday 6:30 pm Ladies Coffee Break Thursday 10:00 am Koinonia Food & Fun Fest Saturday 11am-4pm 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 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 stay today, 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. TODAY! SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: REFUEL APPLE PICKING 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. TONIGHT! SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27: PIZZA WITH THE PASTOR If you have been visiting and want to know more about the Journey, please join Pastor Jerry this evening at 5:00 pm for Pizza with the Pastor. It will be a very informal gathering where Jerry will share about the Journey and answer any questions you may have. We ll provide pizza for dinner. 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. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: JOURNEY MOMS 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. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3: FOOD & FUNFEST FOR KOINONIA The Franconia area Christian faith community is sponsoring a family fun event on Saturday, October 3rd. We are 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, 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.

Announcements SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10: GIRLFRIENDS IN GOD HOPE, COURAGE, FAITH, & STRENGTH Our next women s event is Girlfriends in God October 10, 9:00 11:00 am. Join us for a light breakfast, worship, discussion, and testimonies from a few ladies. Childcare is provided. Please sign up in the lobby to get the upcoming Evite! SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17: JOURNEY OUTDOORS Journey Outdoors is going ZIP-LINING! Saturday, October 17, we will be going to The Adventure Park at Sandy Spring Friends School (see their website at sandyspringadventurepark.org/). The cost is $47 per person, including tax. There are 13 separate trails of varying levels of difficulty, for ages 5 and up! We will meet at the church at 7:00 am to carpool, and our session will be 8:30am-12:00pm, and we have a picnic table reserved for lunch. The park is open rain or shine. Please sign up in the lobby if you are interested so we can better plan for this event. If you have questions, please email Renee Mowery at varekai.mowery@gmail.com. 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.

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Sermon Outline Defining Our Mission Building Biblical Community Mark 12:28-31 (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. The second is equally important: Love your neighbor as yourself. No other commandment is greater than these. Acts 2:42-47 (NLT), All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals, including the Lord s Supper, and to prayer. A deep sense of awe came over them all, and the apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders. And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had. They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need. They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord s Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity; all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved. 1 John 1:3-4, 6-7 (MSG), We saw it, we heard it, and now we re telling you so you can experience it along with us, this experience of communion with the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ. Our motive for writing is simply this: We want you to enjoy this, too. Your joy will double our joy! If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we re obviously lying through our teeth we re not living what we claim. But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God s Son, purges all our sin.

Sermon Outline John 13:35, By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love ONE ANOTHER. Romans 12:10, Be devoted to ONE ANOTHER in brotherly love. Honor ONE ANOTHER above yourselves. Ephesians 5:21, Submit to ONE ANOTHER out of reverence for Christ. Colossians 3:13, Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against ONE ANOTHER. Romans 15:7, Accept ONE ANOTHER, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Therefore encourage ONE ANOTHER and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. Colossians 3:16, Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish ONE ANOTHER with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. Life Groups at the Journey: Our vision is to connect people into groups who come together on a regular basis for a common purpose, to move toward full devotion to Christ, by intentionally providing an environment for connection, community, service and spiritual formation. In Life Groups People can find friendship People can be discipled in their faith People can be in an atmosphere of mutual accountability People can understand and discuss the truth of the Word of God People can identify and use their spiritual gifts in order to serve one another, the church, and their community People can provide care for one another People can share their faith in the most natural way Reflection