Weekly Update

Sunday, September 6, 2026 


9:30 AM Worship and Children’s Ministry
18101 W. Highway 71, Suite 120
The Sunday worship bulletin can be found here.  The service will be streamed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/hWrYUN4CHaM?is=-pgirJwx2TJVltf-

5:00 PM Worship and Children's Ministry - New!

The second service bulletin can be found here.
Please join us for our inaugural second service! Shorter than our Sunday service and family oriented, but all ages are welcome! Pizza dinner to follow.


Bring your phone to have one on one tutorial to help you join Realm. These services will be ongoing every Sunday after church.

My Friends in Christ,

A few days ago, I pulled my car over beside someone’s garden in a nearby neighborhood. I needed a quiet place to take a work call, and from where I was sitting, the garden looked wonderfully still. Flowers stood quietly in the afternoon light. Nothing seemed to be happening. It was, at first glance, a picture of peace.

As I sat there on the phone, I began to notice that the garden was anything but still. Butterflies moved from flower to flower, exploring each colorful bloom. Birds swept low through the garden, darting after insects and then disappearing into the trees. Every now and then, a stern looking rabbit hopped through, with his own serious agenda.

What looked like a calm and quiet garden to me was actually a very busy place.

I wondered how often we make the same mistake in our own lives. We see someone sitting quietly and assume they are doing nothing. We look at a season of waiting and assume nothing is happening. We enter a quiet church, a quiet home, or even a quiet moment in our own lives and mistake stillness for emptiness.

God’s creation reminds us that there is often an extraordinary amount of life happening beneath the surface.

The garden was not resting because nothing was happening. It was alive precisely because so much was happening. The butterflies were working. The birds were working. The flowers were doing their quiet work. Even the rabbit had places to go and things to investigate.

Not every kind of work is loud. Not every kind of growth is obvious. Not every faithful thing we do produces something we can immediately see.

Sometimes, God working in the quiet places, in the waiting, in the ordinary rhythms of our days. Sometimes we are doing important work simply by showing up, paying attention, caring for one another, resting when we need to rest, and trusting that God is doing things we cannot yet see.

And sometimes, if we are lucky, we pull over for a work call beside somebody’s garden and remember to look out the window. There is more going on than we think!

A reminder that this Sunday, September 6, we will gather for our second service at 5:00 PM. Come as you are for a quieter evening service, and stay afterward for pizza and fellowship. I hope you’ll join us as we make a little more room in our week to gather, worship, notice, and be together.

 

In Christ’s Peace,

 

Christine+

Common Threads--

 Tuesday, September 8, 6:00-7:30 

at Sue’s apartment.
Bring a food to share for light dinner
Bring yarn to crochet or knit 
Or just bring yourself for fellowship! 

Wednesday evening Bible Study
September 9, 2026
7:00 - 8:00pm in-person at ECCLT or online via Zoom

Wednesdays Bible Study with Wale leading us through the book of Romans. Very informative and thought-provoking discussions. Come join us! 7:00 -8:00 at the church or on zoom. Contact Wale if you have any further questions: [email protected]

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93714779977?pwd=oRvUALu4genwPOeGdBw1N8fpdPKTVN.1
Meeting ID: 937 1477 9977
Passcode: 325109

  Men’s Morning Fellowship- Friday, September 11 

Los Pinos Jalisco, 11715 Bee Caves Rd, Unit 400, Austin, TX 78738.
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM

Gather for fellowship, to share a meal, and dwell in the scriptures.
Anyone wanting an update can reach out to Leigh Cariker at 817-313-8290

LOOKING AHEAD!

• The Land Clearing- contractor is nearing completion of the 9 acres and spreading the chipped vegetation!  Watch for the open spaces to be more visible from Hwy. 71.

September 25 - Beatles, Beethoven & Beyond Concert in the Dark at the church Sept 25, 7:00 and 9:00 performances . Contact Will Taylor at [email protected] or 512-589-8749 for info on tickets.  

September 26  - First Highway cleanup on Hamilton Pool Road. 8:00-10:00. More details to come!

Sunday, September 13, 2026

9:30 AM Worship and Children’s Ministry
18101 W. Highway 71, Suite 120
 

Prayer requests and requests for lay pastoral care may be sent to [email protected]. Please specify if you would like your request to be confidential.

Daily Scripture Readings
 

Sunday, August September 6:
AM Psalm 63:1-8(9-11), 98; PM Psalm 103
Job 25:1-6,27:1-6; Rev. 14:1-7,13; Matt. 5:13-20

Monday, September 7:
AM Psalm 41, 52; PM Psalm 44
Job 32:1-10,19-33:1,19-28; Acts 13:44-52; John 10:19-30

Tuesday, September 8:
AM Psalm 45; PM Psalm 47, 48
Job 29:1-20; Acts 14:1-18; John 10:31-42

 Wednesday, September 9:
AM Psalm 119:49-72; PM Psalm 49, [53]
Job 29:1,30:1-2,16-31; Acts 14:19-28; John 11:1-16

Thursday, September 10:
AM Psalm 50; PM Psalm [59, 60] or 93, 96
Job 29:1,31:1-23; Acts 15:1-11; John 11:17-29

Friday, September 11:
AM Psalm 40, 54; PM Psalm 51
Job 29:1,31:24-40; Acts 15:12-21; John 11:30-44

 Saturday, September 12:
AM Psalm 55; PM Psalm 138, 139:1-17(18-23)
Job 38:1-17; Acts 15:22-35; John 11:45-54