Evan Almighty is a new movie officially being released on June 22. Sam, Karen, Jake & I saw a special screening for it last night. I found it to be a very funny movie that is definately a good one for the whole family to see.

Morgan Freeman is back playing the role of God and does a great job with it. There are many "one-liners" that will be remembered from the movie, but the encouraging thing is positive message that we can have in changing the world through "one random act of kindness at a time". You can find some preview clips and trailers from the web site.

The other very uplifting aspect is the way that they are encouraging churches to get on board with "building their own ARK (A Random act of Kindness) through a site tool called ArkALMIGHTY.com This is designed to be a simply way that churches can find and fill needs (acts of kindness). The newly renamed "Sharing" section (formerly "classifieds") of MyChurch.org seems similiar in purpose.I'll be doing some testing with both to compare and contrast and see which one might work best for BVBC.

No matter which tool we may end up using the important thing is to create the opportunity for our body to act and share the love of Christ. This is very much tied to our church's mission statement and vision for ministry which says,

We seek to form a community of disciples that will be loyal to Jesus Christ in a world that is not always in sympathy with the purposes of God. The distinguishing characteristics of this community are:

• Engaging our God with heartfelt worship
• Engaging our communities with compassionate deeds
• Enaging our culture with gracious discernment

Stay tuned for more updates!