TO: The “Younger Adults” (or “The Millennials”) of Oakton United Methodist Church
RE: reCONNECT
• Do you ever feel disconnected?
• Do you ever feel that your life is like a computer trying to connect to the Internet?
• You know that there is a larger world out there, a world filled with all sorts of amazing things, but some glitch in the program is keeping you from connecting to it. Do you ever feel like you are waiting for something to happen, watching for something to appear on the screen, anticipating some new discovery?
• Would you like to experience a more intimate connection with God?
• Do you want to find a spiritual connection that makes a tangible difference in your life?
• Would you like to move from knowing about God to knowing God as an energizing power in your life?
• Would you like to experience a deeper connection to other people?
• Have you ever been lonely; so lonely that you felt there was no one to hear your laughter or share your
tears?
• Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a real friend and not just a collection of acquaintances?
• Would you like to be connected to something that is making a real difference in this world? Do you wrestle with how to use the resources that God places in your hands in ways that bring hope and healing to others?
• Would you like to be connected to the needs of others?
• Have you ever prayed, “God, why don’t you do something about the shape this world is in?” only to discover that God is asking you the same question?
If you can answer “Yes” to any of those questions, or if you are curious about why anyone would ask questions like them, the upcoming fifty-day experience at our church is for you!
I am personally inviting you to a fifty-day experience of study, worship, sharing and prayer that is designed to help you to experience a new connection with God, with God’s people, with God’s generosity and with God’s transformation of the world.
In particular, I want to facilitate an experience that will especially help connect, perhaps for the first time, the individuals in the younger adult age group in our church, most of whom have started attending here in the past year.
With our busy lives and schedules I know that finding a time for us to connect on a regular basis will be a challenge. But I believe if you will make a commitment to meet as a group just once a week during these 50 days that your life will be changed—for the better! So I am asking you to return to me the attached form with some suggestions on what might be the best days and times for you to meet as “The Millennial” group. Look over the reCONNECT calendar, think about it and return the form to me by September 2nd.
Enjoy the rest of your summer!
Pastor Don
