Danville Blog & Events

We love middle schoolers here at Southland. Middle schoolers have a perfect combination of curiosity like a child, but the critical brain of an adult. This past school year has yielded so much fruit in the lives of our students that we have been praying and processing for months about what's next for LIFT (Middle School Ministry) at all of our campuses.

Check out this video to hear a little bit of our heart for middle school ministry, as well as some important changes we are making in our approach, starting this fall.

If you have any questions at all regarding the content of the video, or simply the vision of LIFT, please don't hesitate to e-mail me or call me. I'd love to discuss this further with you. I'd also love to talk to you if our vision is resonating in your heart and you believe God may be calling you to be a leader in our ministry!

Either way, we are excited to follow our God into this next season of ministry at Southland.

Here at Southland, we generously extend hope to the poor by spreading a revolution of love through our Global Outreach Ministry. Each year through your generosity, Southland gives about $1.5 Million to support works all over the world!

Global Outreach is working in areas like Haiti, Mozambique, Asia, Europe and the Northeast United States. From rocking babies to meeting medical needs, Southland is involved and reaching out to people.

We'd love for you to get involved! We have three amazing opportunities that can make a huge impact in the lives of others:

1. Take a Trip
Short term trips are a great way to understand what we're doing all over the world. Head over to our Global Missions page to see upcoming trip details. If you'd like to know more about what these trips are about, or want to look into going with us, contact Andy.

2. Sponsor a Child
We partner with Danita's Children who rescue orphans, feed, clothe, and provide life-saving medical care and shelter to many needy children in one of the poorest countries in the world. Your family can sponsor a child for just $29 a month. If you'd like more information on sponsoring a child, contact Mark.

3. Pray for Global Missions
We're praying for Global Missions for 30 straight days beginning May 24. Sign up to receive four emails that include a daily schedule of what to specifically pray for on each day. Each email will go out on Friday mornings from 5/24-6/14.

 

Technology has changed the way we do a lot of things in our everyday life. We know that even applies to how we pay our bills. Most of us are writing fewer and fewer checks and letting modern conveniences take care of our finances. We have even heard from a lot of you who want your giving to Southland easier as well. So to make giving to Southland easier, we are offering the convenience of automated giving. Not only does automated giving make it easier for you, but it also helps Southland by reducing the number of physical checks we have to process each week.

How do you set up your own automated giving to Southland?

You have to complete a short form available here and send it, along with a voided check, to the attention of our finance department.

Your automated giving options are to give twice a month on the 5th and 20th or once a month on either the 5th or 20th.

If you have any questions, feel free to let us know!

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Imagine your church moving each week from location to location, being led by women because the government does not think women can lead churches, and always thankful for the Lord’s protection. This is the case of many Christians around the world, including places in Central Asia.

Imagine growing up under Communism, working for the KGB, and then your world...

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In John 12, Mary gave an outrageous offering to Jesus - a fragrance worth a year’s wages! She took the perfume and anointed Jesus’ feet with it. Her love was costly but the fragrance filled the entire house!

Saturday, May 18, we will have the chance to send up a fragrance of Jesus’ sacrificial love at Jennie Rogers Elementary. We are throwing an end of the year block party in the Jennie Rogers parking lot from 11am-1pm to celebrate the hard work of students and teachers this year. There will be food, face-painting, a slip ‘n slide, carnival games, and more!

Bring your family out to unleash love on the students, families, and teachers at Jennie Rogers before they go home for the summer. If you are interested in volunteering at one of the activities, please let me know!

Each year at Southland, we have the opportunity to support the ministries of Assurance Care Center in Lexington and The Pregnancy Resource Center of Central Kentucky. With your help, these ministries can offer free confidential medical and counseling services to men and women in the midst of crisis pregnancies and also healing through a post-abortive ministry.

Your part is simple. This weekend, May 11/12, grab a baby bottle after service, fill it with change, cash or checks, and bring it back on Father’s Day weekend (June 15/16). 

Your change will go a long way to help these ministries offer healing and hope to post-abortive women and men.

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Despite the stormy weather, we'll be having our annual Spring Family Picnic tonight, but indoors!

Instead of meeting at Milliennium Park, we'll gather in the Connection area. Same time, food and games – just a whole lot less mud.

See you tonight!

Do you live in constant bewilderment of your student's mood changes and growth spurts? Are you beginning to notice a new smell coming from your son's bathroom - a strange mix of B.O. and Axe body spray? Are your daughters spending more time at the mall "shopping" than they do at home?

If this describes you, then you might be a middle school parent! And we love you!

Our LIFT Middle School Ministry exists at Southland to partner with parents and assist you in the discipleship of your kids. We know you have a tall task at home, and we want to do whatever we can to be your cheerleader from the church.

In order to maximize our communication and to inform you of some very important details regarding the future of LIFT, we'd like to invite you to a parent meeting at Mallards on Sunday, May 19th after our 11:15am LIFT service. It should be a short meeting, but there will be a lot of content.

Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see you there!

LIFT Middle School is headed to Louisville, July 14-19, for a Summer mission trip!

From July 14-19, 6-8th grade students are invited to come and serve Louisville. While we are there, we will be working with the elderly, playing with kids, hanging out with the homeless, and getting to know Louisville's community. But don't worry, this trip won't be all work! There will be plenty of time to hang out, build relationships with other students and leaders, and do some fun things in and around the Louisville area.

Cost for the trip will be $285, which includes transportation, meals, and housing for the week. Grab an application at any LIFT event or through the Student Ministries office. Applications are due by Sunday, May 12.

What do chainsaws, Braveheart, cake pops and a photo booth have in common? In the past week all four things were a part of our Man Night and Ladies’ Night here at Southland. I will let you guess which ones appeared on which night.

Regardless of your gender, both nights were a lot of fun and spiritually encouraging at the same time. It was incredible to see Theater 81 full of men one week and full of women the next week as both groups came together to hang out with friends, celebrate their uniqueness, and become more of the man or woman God made them to be.

Our hope and prayer for both nights was that lasting connection and community would emerge from the event. And it has. But the good news is even if you missed out on either event, it is not too late to get plugged in to a men’s group or a ladies’ group. However, they will be launching soon so make sure you take some “next steps” quickly.

Men, go here to let us know you would like to be in a group and to subscribe to the 6 week study guide we will be using for your group and to access resources discussed that evening.

Ladies, go here to let us know you would like to be in a group and to find out more about the resources we will be using for your group.

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Ladies' Night was incredible! We enjoyed delicious desserts catered by Saul Good, we gave away some awesome prizes, and we captured fun moments with the photo booth. It was a great opportunity to connect with other ladies. We also found some really gifted talent with our Karaoke contest winners! And, Debbie Breaux was amazing!

Our hope for this night was that the ladies of our church would come together, have fun, and meet one another. But most importantly, we prayed for community and connection to emerge from this event. And it did! We want you to join us by being a part of our next step out of this event!

We are doing a big push for group life which can include purchasing a copy of Living Free to study together for 6-weeks in community with other women. To learn more about getting connected in a Life Group or about purchasing the resource, please see the info below:

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Every week in several central Kentucky neighborhoods, we visit families to pray with them, meet basic needs, and build relationships to share the love and hope of Christ. We call this ministry Serve the City.

If you're interested in serving with Serve The City, please watch this simple training video to learn more and follow the instructions after it's over, if you want to serve. We would love for you to partner with us to unleash a revolution of love in Kentucky! 

Serve The City Locations & Times:

• Downtown Nicholasville - Tuesdays at 6:30pm
• Woodhill Neighborhood (Lexington)- Mondays at 6pm
• Downtown East End Neighborhood (Lexington)- Tuesdays at 6:30pm
• Long Run Apartments (Danville)- Wednesdays at 6:30pm