Our next study book is William P. Young's The Shack.   You can purchase a copy of the book at the church office.   Study classes start in early December and will be held on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday evenings.   Consult the Events Calendar for dates and times.

 

Notes from Pastor Travis

The Shack is a story about how God transforms tragedy into hope and love.  It is a story about how hatred and anger can be changed and re-oriented.  The story fits well with our theme for the Advent season, “There’s a place for you this Christmas.”  The Shack reminds us that there is no place in our hearts that God cannot restore and transform.  I hope you will join me as we seek to look deeper into the power of all that God has done, is doing, and will do through a simple manger at Bethlehem.

 

Summary (taken from amazon.com)

Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.  Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend.  Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare.  What he finds there will change Mack's world forever.  In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?"  The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.  You'll want everyone you know to read this book!