Community Market Success!

Our First STATUS Community Market was a great success! Thank you to all the vendors, shoppers and volunteers. And thank the Lord for the provision of awesome weather! If you could not participate in this event, we hope you will be able to make the next market!

HOMELESS CONNECT
September 17th, 2010

Some of you may recall the Homeless Connect event that we hosted earlier this year at Discovery. It was such a memorable day of serving the homeless of our community,  that we want to continue to provide the opportunity for you to serve with this organization outside the confines of our building.

For those of you who did not participate, Project Homeless Connect is the Homeless Services Network’s outreach to the homeless in Seminole, Orange, and Osceola Counties. It is a one day event offering more than 50 services that are critically needed by homeless persons in one convenient location. This specific event will be held in Osceola County at the Osceola Heritage Park Exhibition Hall on Friday, September 17th, 2010.

To find out more information or to register, please visit the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida’s website.

Here’s a look at the previous Homeless Connect event:

The Heart of Project Homeless Connect from Michael Dalton on Vimeo.

Prayer & Worship – Every Thursday

Every Thursday night at 7pm we gather together to pray and worship through song, scripture and testimony.
All are welcome!

This Thursday, September 9th, we will come together for Open House Prayer at the home of Cole, Josh, Casey, Michael and Lander. The address is:

1316 Portland Ave, Orlando, FL 32803. See you there!

Thank you Janae, Melyssa and Theresa for facilitating an incredible night of prayer and worship in your home!         And thank you Janae Schirle and Scott Armstrong for leading us in worship!

Gather

STATUS is a community striving to become the kingdom of Heaven on earth. We are the people you see everyday and desire to be a part of culture carrying a message of faith, hope and love.

Sundays at 6:30pm and 8:30pm we meet together in the auditorium of Discovery Church and the other six days of the week there are various expressions of who we are in houses, offices, bars, coffee shops, galleries and just about everywhere else you can imagine in the Central Florida area.

We hold tightly to the teachings of Jesus as recorded by the apostles who penned the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. In addition, the scriptures arranged in the Bible are the truth which we base our lives around. For the rest of our values, click here. Or to learn more about our beliefs, click here

Worship Gatherings
Sunday Nights at 6:30 and 8:30 PM

The Greenhouse (our learning environment for kids) takes place during the 6:30 gathering.

Most often, going to a church service is like going to the movies – sit, watch and consume. But our value of contribution extends into our worship gatherings. That means that most often our gatherings are about going beyond hearing and actually doing. Jesus used metaphor and activity all the time to communicate spiritual principles. So, whether we’re engaging in something traditional like communion or something a little bit different like physically planting a seed as a symbol of our spiritual growth, our gatherings are participative.

The end goal is John 4:23 – that we would be people who are simply and honestly ourselves before God in our worship. No show here. Just honesty.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT… Every week we upload the previous Sunday’s message to iTunes. Video and audio versions of the evening can be downloaded by searching the iTunes store for STATUS Video Podcast or STATUS Podcast.

Small Groups

At the core of our community is the desire to see all engaged in relationships that are continually transforming all involved into a closer likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Rooted deeply in each person is a desire to be known and to know others and this comes from being created in the image of a God who, in Himself, shares three distinct Persons in one essence. At STATUS, we hope to empower you to create opportunities to gather with your friends and meet new ones through regular small group activity. In these environments, the goal is to form new relationships or strengthen existing ones. This happens in many ways, including the study of scripture, reading books together, engaging in local and global service and hosting potluck style meals.

Our hope is that you would desire to begin walking alongside your brothers and sisters in the continual process and journey that is following Jesus. We empower you to create two different types of small group communities: Spheres and Praxis Communities.

For more information on the two different types of small group communities we offer click the links below. If you have any further questions on how to join, or how to start one of these communities within Status, email : tom@whatsyourstatus.com

Spheres

Praxis