Church Night at Yellow Creek Church of the Brethren

Recently the area churches from Pearl City began to address the need for a dedicated church night that avoided conflict with the sports schedules of our conference. This concern was discussed before but we thought that it was time to bring it up again. First, we obtained a list of all the schools in our conference. Then we began a letter campaign to the churches in the conference. We followed up with a meeting with the school superintendents who were on the conference committee that sets sports schedules.

We found out that the schedules are set two years in advance and that the schools favored a dedicated church night too. One superintendent stated that the schools realize that a student with a good spiritual upbringing provides the school with a better student and society with a better citizen. Praise God!

Our meeting with the superintendents resulted in a decision of Wednesday night as a dedicated church night and cooperation of the league to set aside that night to be free of school sport activities. There will be exceptions of course but the cooperation of the schools was fantastic. It will take two years to implement. The schools assured church leaders that attempts would be in place to avoid the shifting of other school activities to the open night created by this agreement. The schools control the use of the buildings so the facilities would not be available on Wednesday nights.

We intend to keep the dialogue in place with the schools and with each church so changes in staff do not interfere with the process. We also intend to circulate this idea to other conferences and other parts of the country and see what God will do. Perhaps this could be the beginning of a very good thing.

Ellis Boughton, Pastor. Yellow Creek Church of the Brethren namvet9@hotmail.com