Meet Southside Sunday! This newsletter represents one facet of a two-year plan for spiritual progress that the elders have been developing since early Spring.

It’s vital that in our assembly we give the Lord the very best worship of which we are capable, and at the same time provide the best possible atmosphere for the edification of the saints.

While Southside has always done well along these lines, it’s important that we seek to improve in our public worship just as we do in our private service. The elders have discussed biblical ways to assist our growth toward a more spirited public worship. The Southside Sunday is part of their answer—a weekly newsletter that will function in the following ways as an expedient to our worship:

1. Inform. Southside Sunday will provide a vehicle for keeping our people up-to-date concerning matters that relate to our local work and collective gatherings. Keeping informed is especially important as the congregation grows.

2. Remind. There’s nothing like having the list of sick folks, the service assignments, and other congregational news in print—and in print before it’s no longer news. Together with the Update, the newsletter will prevent people and opportunities from slipping through the cracks.

3. Unite. The end result of all communication is to develop a sense of community. Southside Sunday along with The Family Together and Southside Reminder are tools, which if properly used, will help keep us as a people united in a spiritual focus and ready for worship.

4. Redeem. Redeem the time, that is. The announcements grow as the congregation and the cumulative concerns of its people grow. But the attention spans of people and reasonable time expectations remain the same. Southside Sunday will provide the means for continuing to disseminate important and necessary congregational news while relieving the announcer of an unwieldy task.

5 . Edify. Most importantly, Southside Sunday will prevent the undesirable end of our announcements and miscellaneous news gnawing away at the quality and quantity of our collective worship to the Father and His Son. It’s a vehicle allowing us to devote our time and attention more entirely to the Lord and His glorification as we seek to assemble before Him on His day.

We salute the elders for their wisdom and their vision of our needs and how best to meet them. And we praise our God who has so blessed us as a people that we are constrained to offer Him a more spirited public worship. It is toward this end we press, excuse the pun. To Him be the kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen.