New Summer Schedule
Reminder - we are now on summer schedule. We have ONE service at 10:00 AM. Curbside and Backyard are also at this time.
We will resume back to two services starting this fall. More details will be released as we get closer to that time.

Women’s Ministry Expansion
As many of you have already heard, our women’s ministry is expanding.
Visit our website to find out more. Click on Preston Trail Family, then women’s. Also, we need your gifts and feedback on our future! Please stop by the information center and pick up or hand in your pink feedback card. For more information please send us an email at info@prestontrail.org. MORE

Coming Soon - Youth Camp
Also, plan ahead for Youth Camp, which will happen July 17-21 in Corpus Christi, TX. Cost of the camp will be $365 which includes a 4 night 5 day stay in the Holiday Inn - Emerald Beach, meals, as well as a great speaker and band. You don't want to miss out. Contact Ryan Hairston at ryan@prestontrail.org for more information.

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

Online Giving
Make your life simpler by automating your giving. Follow the easy directions at www.prestontrail.org to setup for debit or credit card for regular giving and dream big donations. All transactions are secure and will appear on your regular statement.

“What Do I Tell My Kids?”

Nobody prepares you for children. No one can. Period.

It is one of life’s strangest ironies that the biggest challenge we ever face – how to raise children to be mature and responsible adults one day – has no advanced training course. Every parent knows the meaning of “winging it” … that is, doing the best you can at the moment, and hoping it’s good enough.

I remember how unprepared I felt when Kari, our oldest, was born 25 years ago. I didn’t know how to change a diaper, burp a baby, or calm a crying newborn. I was lost.

But I went from the frying pan to the fire when she got old enough to ask me questions – like “Where do babies come from? What is in the tall bottle that your friend Chris is drinking and can I have some too? Why does Amy have two daddies? Why does that man have a blue picture on his arm?” And she never stopped asking. Kristen was the same way.

I wish someone had prepared me a little better for that barrage of questions …

If you have ever felt the same way, I have good news for you: over the next five Sundays Jim and I will be bringing you messages on some of the most pressing questions that kids are asking parents these days. That’s right – we’ve lost our minds. We’re actually going where angels fear to tread by telling you how we understand God’s will on some very serious questions. Wanna know the rundown? Here it is.

July 9            What Do I Tell My Kids about SEX?

July 16          What Do I Tell My Kids about DRINKING?

July 23          What Do I Tell My Kids about DIVORCE?

July 30          What Do I Tell My Kids about TATTOOS AND PIERCINGS?

August 6       What Do I Tell My Kids about DINOSAURS?

Some of these topics may be more relevant than others because of the age of your children. But I guarantee you that all of these are issues that kids are talking about at school and in the neighborhood. And you need to have a response when they come to you with their questions. That’s why we’re doing this series.

We invite you to do three things to make this the best series we’ve ever had at PTCC:

Jim and I continue to try as hard as we can, through God’s strength, to be the most truth-telling and grace-giving teachers we can be. I believe He will honor that desire, and you will be the beneficiary. That’s why the work we do is often called “service” – we want to serve you with God’s truth and grace. May He grant all of us that desire.

See you Sunday,

Paul Basden, senior pastor

PS – Thank you for giving so generously this past holiday weekend. We made good strides in catching up where we had fallen behind recently in our church finances. But the call to faithful giving all summer long is not over – we still need generous offerings the next two Sundays to fully recover from our atypical offerings in May and June. Keep up the good work!

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.

LISTEN! Preston Trail Podcast
Sermons now available online! In keeping up with the times, all PTCC Worship Sermons are available for downloading on our website. So, if you missed a service, go here and take a listen.
You will have the option of downloading and listening to them on your computer or even subscribe here to have them come to your computer automatically each time one is added - then play them on your computer or your iPod. CDs will no longer be sold at our Resource Table, however entire sermon series will be available for purchase once our new building is complete.