Want to get radical? Most church congregations hold their meetings indoors where no one on the outside can see or hear them. How about turning the church inside out? Instead, hold services outside in the parking lot for the whole world to see? Take the light of the saints out of the bushel basket called a church building and put it outside!

This Sabbath (Shabbat) afternoon, our congregation will be holding an outreach Shabbat services in the parking lot (along a busy boulevard) of the church building we rent. We’re going to have live music, worship dance, worship flag ministry, preaching, passing out food to the hungry, passing out Bibles and tracts to the spiritually hungry, and praying for those with needs. Below is what will be on a flyer we’ll be passing out to those who drop in to  visit us.

To help you on your spiritual journey, here are a number of free resources our ministry makes available:

• Visit Congregation Elim meeting at the 14145 SW Hall Blvd., Tigard, Oregon (in the Hall Blvd. Baptist Church building). Congregation Elim meets for services on the first and third Saturdays of each month starting at 2 PM in the afternoon and going into the early evening. Other meetings are held regularly as well. To learn more about our congregation, go to http://hoshanarabbah.org/elim.html.
• For more information on our congregation and ministry, visit our website at http://hoshanarabbah.org. There you will find many free Bible studies to aid you in your spiritual walk.

Here are some specific recommended resources to help you to understand and apply the gospel message of Jesus Christ (or Yeshua the Messiah) into your daily life, so that you can experience God’s (Elohim’s) love, victory, blessing and peace now and for eternity.

• A free one-year Torah study guide is available at http://hoshanarabbah.org/parshiot.html.
• A printable one-year Bible reading schedule (to read the Bible in a year) is available at http://hoshanarabbah.org/pdfs/in_a_year_2013-14.pdf.
• Free articles discussing and teaching on many biblical subjects are available at http://hoshanarabbah.org/teaching.html.
• For video Bible teachings, watch our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/HoshanaRabbah.
• To print a free, downloadable biblical events calendar, go to http://hoshanarabbah.org/calendars.html.
• For short teachings on hundreds of biblical subjects, read our blog at hoshanarabbah.org/blog/.
• Keep up to date with our ministry on Twitter @HoshanaRabbah or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/HoshanaRabbah.

If you have  questions, email Nathan (Natan) Lawrence, the pastor, at hoshanarabbah@earthlink.net. To learn more about Nathan, go to hoshanarabbah.org/blog/about/.