This past weekend KingsWay community group leaders and wives gathered together for an in-house retreat in order to celebrate what God has done and be equipped for all that He is doing. The theme for the weekend was “Partnership in the Gospel.”
Friday night a banquet was held to honor and thank these couples for their love for God’s people and their investment in the kingdom. The evening included a “Jeopardy” skit with some unusual “community group” categories. It was a great night of friendship, fellowship, and laughter. Saturday morning was spent exploring what it means to extend biblical counsel and care to others and what it means to be a community of grace.
Paul wrote these words to the Philippian church, “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, 
because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace…”
For those of us in community groups, let us encourage our group leaders and wives with the very same sentiments. For those of you who are group leaders and wives, we thank God for you because of your partnership in the gospel!
Doug,
Thank you how you and Sandy, our other pastors and their wives, and the staff who served us blessed us! And thanks to those of you that share life in our groups together.
Brian and Suzy McPeters