Service Survey Results
Surveys were handed out at both the 9am and 11am services. Members and guests were allowed to complete survey. Everyone handed surveys in at the end of each service. The survey asked participants to “circle one service you would attend from these six options”.
We are considering 2 service schedules:
Option 1: 8:30am, 10am, 11:30am
Option 2: 9am, 11am, 6pm
Surveys Received: 113
Representing: 350 people (about half our regular attendees)
Results Per Service: read more…
Yesterday, Ruben Garcia, a man in our PromiseGroup, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the pituitary gland. I went and visited him in the hospital and he was having severe headaches. Last night was our scheduled PromiseGroup meeting. The night that our small group gathers for hanging out and Biblical discussion. However, when someone in the group is going through a very difficult situation, you throw the original plan out the window and respond as a family.
I just found this Word document from 6 years ago. It was the original plan I submitted to the Phillips. It is so interesting to see how things went better and different. I was misguided in some areas, and in other areas I was right on. Notice that the college was called SWT. 
ENJOY:
Hubby is conservative, and he loves the church. Ages 1 to 999, you will feel welcome.
Please try this church.
While working in Austin with Randy Phillips, he taught me to become tenacious and never take no for an answer. To become a ‘velociraptor’ like the dinosaur in the movie Jurassic Park.
Well, I am trying to get him to speak at our church on a Wednesday night, and I am turning the velociraptor curse back on to him!! Lets all pound him with emails and tell him that we want him to visit our church on a First Wednesday service. His email is:
info@promiselandwest.com
In the body of the email, just say, “Pastor Randy Phillips, we would be honored for you to speak in San Marcos on a Wednesday night. Thanks in advance!” signed… your name
This past Friday, I took my 5 year old son to his first Hays Rebel football game at Bob Shelton Stadium. Wow, I have so many good memories from that place. My terrible career at football ended after my freshman year, but I have such fond memories of attending other games, hanging with friends, and cheering my classmates. When I went on Friday, I have to admit, I was saddened. I realized how much tradition and relationships matter. The game was almost empty without my friends there. The stadium is totally different because the “home” side has been switched to the “visitor” side. That is the epitome of change. As, I sat in the stadium, I looked across at the old home side and it looked like a ghost town. There were only about 75 Manor fans over there. All the nooks where students would hang out and huddle in the cold wind were empty. The little round concession stand was gone. For those of you who have attended games for many years, will not understand my problems. You have seen the incremental change over the last 16 years and probably are accustomed to it. However, for those of us that have been away, it is a bitter pill to swallow.
Some things seem to never change, though. The coaching staff seemed to be the exact same as my freshman year (19 years ago). That is amazing. Truly for them it is about ‘the kids’, and not their career advancement. What a treat for parents and students of Hays High School to have big hearts coaching their kids. Great leaders producing great people. And of course, the Rebels read more…
You never know who will be sitting in the seat on Sunday. In fact, some weeks as I drive in to church I wonder if anyone will show. Check out this letter from a man who visited on Oct 11th. God is doing amazing things here in San Marcos. For that we give HIM all the honor.
Thank you so very much for baptizing me this weekend! I really do appreciate it!! You just don’t know how much!
Well, my situation is this: I decided to have a weekend getaway encounter with God to renew my relationship with Him and get on with the tasks at hand. I am not sure if you’ve had a chance to read the “pray for me” prayer on the back of the visitor’s card. I wrote something about completing the mission God has called me to (I wrote it as soon as I sat down prior to your sermon, God has a way to speak to us!). I felt then I was in the right place.
I have been in ministry for about 20 years preaching and teaching the Word of God everywhere I go. The Lord has opened doors for me to be able to start Bible studies at the places I’ve worked. I work now at an engineering company and God has allowed me to start a study here as well. I’ve preached at several churches in the Houston area. I love the Lord with all my heart. I grew up Methodist, but once I attended college I experienced tremendous spiritual growth. I attended a non-denominational church and it was over. The power of God filled that place like I never felt. I wanted more and more of that! In the Methodist church I attended, that did not baptize in the traditional way. I said that one day I’d do it but never did, always putting it off. This time when the opportunity presented itself, I JUMPED at the chance!! I asked one of the ushers, “Can anybody get baptized today? Anybody?” I was like OK, THIS IS MY CHANCE and I do thank you Pastor Robin!!
I feel the tug of fulltime ministry in pastoring a church. I ask that you stand in agreement with me as the transition is made, from working for the world to working for the Master! I listened intently to your sermon and the last point you made, MY FOCUS IS JESUS and that we have an expiration date, made an imprint on my soul. I was like today, today is my day to decide to go after God’s will for my life. God does not save us to sit. I will not die with the gifts and talents God has placed inside me. Thanks for that simple sermon. I will never forget it. It spoke to everything inside me.
We, at PSM, are uniting against the flu! There is an onslaught of the flu right now in the Central Texas Region, and it is crippling our economy, education, and recreation. It would be depressing if we were without hope. However, with God we have hope!
Isaiah 53: 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
1 Peter 2: 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Both of these texts are referring to the stripes that Jesus took at Calvary before He was hung on the cross. The stripes paid the way for our healing. Throughout the gospels, Jesus healed the physical ailments of the people, and then he commanded us to pray for one another.
James 5: 14 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Steps We Are Taking As A Church Family:
- In your private prayer time, pray AGAINST illness attacking us. Our united, prayerful attack against the enemy is affective!
- If you or your family members experience flu-like symptoms, please contact Jackie in our office so that we can pray for you. If you would like for us to pray with you personally, please let her know.
- We want to make sure that our members attending the weekend services are protected from contagious illness. If you have a fever, please wait until you have been fever-free for 24 hours before returning to a weekend service. Kids will not be accepted into Children’s ministry if they have had symptoms in the last 24 hours. We have mounted waterless hand cleaner throughout our facility for your convenience.
+robin
