Dear Family and Friends,
Fall is here is here and we have some relief from the heat. September was an exceptionally hot month. With the new season upon us we also find ourselves entering a new season in Fusion and in our family life! The last few weeks have been exciting for us and much change is afoot.
Gabriella has been playing soccer and she has a game every Saturday. This has opened up some new family fun for us. Josiah is enjoying the big open field to run around in with other little brothers from Gabriella’s team. Titus enjoys crawling around on the grass and being outside. Elizabeth is enjoying seeing her little one follow in her footsteps by playing soccer.
Jeremy has been able to get part-time job at the Jesus Center as the volunteer coordinator. This was a big answer to prayer, but is also an adjustment. This means that he has limited hours to work on Fusion related things, but it has allowed many members of our congregation to step up and take on leadership responsibilities. This way Jeremy can concentrate on all the specific senior pastor responsibilities.
Another change in our lives us that we were notified at the end of September that we need to find a new place to live by the end of October. Our landlord has decided to sell this house. We enjoyed living here these past few years and will miss it, but God has already supplied a new home and we are waiting for all the repairs to be finished so we can move around mid-October. This new place is around the corner from Gabriella’s school, where Josiah will be going in the fall, and we are all very excited to walk to school and have young families as neighbors. Please pray that we will be a light to the neighborhood and that many new relationships will be formed as a result.
Fusion has been very blessed! We have been running an ad in the Chico News and Review and we are seeing many new people as a result! We have had returning visitors for the past few weeks. We also had seven new adults and three new kids on Sunday. We are bursting out of our small meeting place. If these new people return we are going to need to add an additional service, which is an amazing problem to have!
These ads have been really speaking to the community and it is very exciting to see the response. Our name is having more of a presence through our ads, facebook, and website and people are starting to come and see what all the buzz is about.
Thank you so much for all of your prayer and support. We are getting a good response from many of you about supporting us beyond December. Please prayerfully consider doing the same if you have not made a decision yet. The economic climate in Chico is bad and so I have only been able to find part-time work for low pay. We will need your support going forward. As always we know that God will provide for us as he always has! If you have not yet sent in your support for October please do so at this time.
Blessings!
Jeremy and Elizabeth Rhodes
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