Happy New Year! I hope that you entered 2012 with a great sense of God’s presence and anticipation about his work in this remarkable year! I am excited for what is ahead and it all begins this month with another New Year to celebrate January 22 & 23 – Chinese New Year! Jim and Peggy Price – pictured at left in front of a Beijing McDonalds – will join partners Doug and Melody Penney from Taiwan in sharing at the Lakeside on Mission Briefings later this month. You won’t want to miss one of these times which will inspire and inform you about what has been happening through Lakeside on Mission and what is ahead. But even before we get to that weekend, we will celebrate the MLK weekend with two big events. We will commission three of our “term partners” leaving for Mozambique at the Ten service on Sunday the 15th. Later that day, we will join with thousands of other area Christians to kick off the Sacramento Festival season of service at Capital Christian Center (see details below). This is another can’t miss event as we hear incredible preaching from Luis Palau, amazing black gospel music and hear of the opportunities to serve the Lord. I hear Jesus words, “Come follow me” into 2012. I will. Will you? Jeff Kreiser Pastor of Outreach & Extension

I Will Follow Now – What’s Next, What’s Now

TELL Your Friends: Lakeside on Mission Briefings January 22 &23
Lakeside on Mission Briefings will take place Sunday January 22 from 12:30-2pm and Monday January 23 from 6:30-8pm. Join us for a Chinese meal and a briefing on all that is happening with Lakeside on Mission in the New Year

• Special guest updates from Jim and Peggy Price (China) and Doug and Melody Penney (Taiwan)
• Vision shared by Pastor Jeff Kreiser for our local “Love Your Neighborhood” initiative
• News from Jose Flores on how you can stay connected with Lakeside on Mission all year long
• Opportunities for North American and Global mission trips through summer of 2012

For meal planning purpose, registration is required. Click here to register.

If you have questions or interest in helping, contact Amber at ambergarza@lakesidechurch.com.

GO to Serve and to Celebrate MLK and the Season of Service
Join thousands as we honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and kick of the Luis Palau Sacramento Festival Season of Service. Sunday, January 15th at Capital Christian Center (9470 Micron Ave.) from 5:30pm-7:30pm. Special Guest Speaker: Luis Palau.

PRAY for the Love Your Neighborhood Initiative
Love Your Neighborhood will connect Lakesider’s in the neighborhoods of Folsom, El Dorado Hills, Orangevale and Cameron Park around the idea of what it means to show and share the love of Jesus to our neighbors. It will all begin in late February with “Meet Your Lakeside Neighbors” desserts at various are schools. What might your neighborhood look like with everyone experiencing the love of Jesus?

Contact Pastor Jeff at jeffkreiser@lakesidechurch.com if you want to serve to shape this initiative.

GO on a 2012 Global Mission Opportunity (Applications available at Mission table)
Teams are forming for Mozambique, Kenya and Costa Rica in April and China in May. Learn more about the potential trips in this pdf (Global Missions Info) and apply for the trip using this Word document (Global Missions Application)

GIVE to the Lakeside on Mission Fund
Start the year with a financial gift marked to Lakeside on Mission fund. Be generous. 100% of mission funds go to advance mission through our partners, projects and mobilization.

We would like to have at least 100 Lakeside households (currently at 31) participate in the $10×52/1000 program. Very simply, this is asking you to give $10 a week for a year. By 2015 we hope to have 1000 Lakeside households participating.

If you plan to make a weekly or monthly pledge, we strongly encourage you to go online and set up an electronic fund transfer (EFT). It has been our observation that follow-through on pledges dramatically increases with the decision to schedule an EFT. This is a tool that allows our intentions to become actions. You can schedule to give online by clicking http://lakesidechurch.com/giving-faqs/.

How do you schedule an EFT for Lakeside on Mission?

At Lakeside, we use an online database called Fellowship One. This system allows us to provide you access to your contribution records and allows you to make donations online. Fellowship One provides all of the security for the system and it is used by churches throughout the country.  Your information is held securely by Fellowship One, will remain private and will never be given away or sold to third parties.

To get started today, follow these simple steps:

1. Log onto lakesidechurch.com

2. Click on the vertical “Online Giving” at the bottom left of the website

3. Step 2 takes you to an information page where you will find a complete list of frequently asked questions about online giving and their answers, as well as our security features, policies and privacy statement.  To continue to online giving, click on the box “Click here To Give Online”

4. Step 3 takes you to the Fellowship One Login screen where you enter your user id and password.

5. Once you log into your account, you will have access to the screen where you enter your contribution information.

a. Amount

b. Frequency of Gift

c. Fund

d. Continuous gift or one time (it will be a continuous gift if a monthly pledge)

e. Assign date you want your account charged

f. Payment Information (eCheck, Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express)

g. Billing Information

h. “Schedule New Contribution”

Once your contribution(s) is scheduled, you can log into this same screen to review, edit or delete your scheduled contribution(s), as well as have access to your contribution history.

TELL Us what you want to know More About
Return an Interest Survey and let us know in what ways you want us to be giving you direct e-mail communication in the coming year (click here for Interest Survey)