Investment Opportunity! PTCC Bonds
In an effort to finance our building remodel, PTCC presents an upcoming bond offering. Special informational meetings will be held on Sunday, March 26th at 4:00 and Monday, March 27th at 7:00 PM. Meetings will be held at our new building and will include a tour. MORE

Chainsaw Saturday
This Saturday we continue preparing our new church building! Workers of any skill level are welcome to help remove trees, tile, carpet, etc. Donuts and a tour of the building begin at 8:30 a.m. with work starting at 9:00 a.m. Other Saturday workdays will follow if you can't make this one. To join in, contact John Taylor at 972 668-3899 or jdtay77777@aol.com

Parenting Conference 2006
Preston Trail Community Church is partnering with Watermark Community Church for an exciting Parenting Conference. Please join us for the Watermark Parenting Workshop, Saturday, April 1 from 9 am - 4 pm at the Watermark Building (7540 LBJ Frwy). The Workshop will help you develop a blueprint for raising your kids in a way that builds a strong identity and sets them up to be effective in the world. Childcare is available for a small free. Please register in the lobby or send an email to info@prestontrail.org. MORE

Men’s CLC Groups
If you want to be in a men’s CLC group, there are still a few openings. Currently, we have three CLC groups with 33 men involved. We would like to start three more groups of 10-12 men each. CLC stands for Christian Leadership Concepts and is designed to challenge men to be leaders at home, in the church, and in the community. Sign up at the Life Group Table.MORE

Discover Preston Trail Class
New to PTCC? Join Pastors Jim and Paul on Sundays at 11:00 AM as we take a look at our church and where it is going. This is an opportunity for all guests who are new to PTCC to learn more. Session will meet at the AMC Theatre. Please signup at the Life Group table. A 5 week Partnership Class will follow for all those interested in becoming a PTCC partner.MORE

JOB OPPORTUNITIES:
RESOURCE SERVING TEAM LEADER
Are you looking for a critical team to lead? We are seeking a leader for the resource team. This team records the weekly sermon, saves and copies it to CDs and provides them for sale in our lobby. The leader will oversee the sales team and work with our webmaster in getting the sermon on our site. Sign up on the offering card today or contact info@prestontrail.org for more information.

GUEST SERVICES DIRECTOR
Customer Service at its finest. We are looking for a customer driven, guest services leader to come on our staff at PTCC. This person will be responsible for overseeing the entire new guest process; from welcoming, registration, followup and more. Job is about 10 hours a week. We are seeking candidates who have former customer service experience. Please contact info@prestontrail.org for more information on the application process...and get that resume ready!

Calling All Men Softball Players!
Sign up in the lobby to join this year's team. Games are played Monday evenings starting 3/06 through 5/8. $30 registration fee. Contact Andy Tuggey for more details at jtuggey@comcast.net.

Life Groups
Now’s the time! Many of our Life Groups are starting new studies. Stop by the Life Group table today and find a group that works for you.MORE

Building Updates … and Building as a Ministry Tool

Lots of great things are happening in relation to our building these days. Here is a short list:

1. Saturday Workdays have been super-successful! We’ve had 15-20 people there every week, and you wouldn’t believe how much demolition can be accomplished by a bunch of crazy people! Join us any Saturday you can. We’re there from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM. Donuts, coffee, water, pizza, and cold drinks are free.
2. We will have a Building Tour and Bond Information Meeting on March 26 and 27. (See this Sunday’s program for details on time.) It will be a great opportunity to do two things. First you can see the inside of our new building – the floor plan, the architectural renderings of the final product, and the rooms where we will worship and teach kids and minister to students and guide preschoolers and all the rest! Then you can learn how to participate in our bond offering if you want to. While Dream Big! involved giving money for the new building, the bond program involves temporarily moving money from your current investments (IRA, 401k, etc.) into a church bond for a set period of time at a guaranteed rate of return. Many investors like church bonds because they are safe and can be either short-term or long-term. Find out more at these meetings.
3. The space allocations of the new building have exciting implications for ministry next Fall, including children’s ministry. To explain this more fully, Jim and I are joining Lisa Lloyd and Jeri Taylor to host a meeting of all parents of children fifth grade and younger this Sunday, March 19 at 4 PM at the Taylor’s old home on 7943 Raintree Way. We hope every family with children can have at least one parent in attendance.

One thing we must remember and never forget is that this building is a tool for ministry … it is not the ultimate goal of our church. We don’t want to develop an “edifice complex.” Buildings are valuable only to the extent that they serve the purpose of the organization using them. Our church exists to help people find and follow Jesus Christ. That purpose provides the litmus test for how we will use the building – and reminds us that it is a tool for ministry, nothing more.

Believe me, nobody wants a building more than Jim and I do! But all of us must keep in the front of our minds that the church is people … that God has called us to reach people … that Jesus came to earth to suffer and die for people … and that we will be most faithful to God when we use our new building to minister to people. I really believe that!

And I am excited to see how God will bless us as we use our new ministry tool …

Read previous Trail Notes here

Click here for more information on Dream Big!

Chapter 2
Join us WEEKLY on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 PM, for a deeper service of biblical teaching, looking into the Life of Jesus. Led by our senior pastors, this will be a meaningful time of prayer, worship and teaching. 7:00 PM AMC Theatre.