Discover and live out God’s dream for your life.

Are your goals too small? Are you living the “just get by” plan? Or is there a greater “God dream” for you that, if lived to the fullest, could permeate and inform every move you make?

Dare to Dream is a startling and inspiring program by popular author and pastor Mike Slaughter that draws on the Bible and a lifetime of ministry to help us discern God’s dream for us and learn to live it out, prayerfully and enthusiastically. Participants will learn how to develop a life mission statement that helps them fully commit to a God-directed lifestyle.

Chapters include:

• Dreaming the Dream: Wake up to God’s dream inside you.
• Discovering Your Birthright: You were created with a purpose.
• Your Burning Bush: Be aware of those illuminating God moments in your life.
• Lose Your Big Buts: Allow God’s strength to be displayed in your weakness.
• What Is in Your Hand: Identify and utilize the ordinary gifts God has given you.
• Perseverance: Discover a dream for your life far greater than your own.

God’s Dream for PWUMC

Each week in January, join us for the Dare to Dream sermon series, where we’ll focus on God’s dream for the church and for the lives of its members. Each week we’ll focus on a different aspect of the dream.

• January 4-5: Our vocation in life as Christian believers is to develop a God-sized dream. Where our ladder goes determines how we live our life.  
• January 11-12: God has placed something special on your heart that you are equipped to deal with. Finding what God has for you ignites your life with passion.  
• January 18-19: Lose your excuses to step into your life with a God-sized dream. No matter your situation, you have everything you need.
• January 25-26: Just because we find our God-sized dream doesn’t mean it’s easy to live out. We must persevere and we do that by entering into the struggle and by being in community.  

God’s Dream for You

Everyone is encouraged to participate in a small group study of Dare to Dream! The study will help you discern God’s dream for us and learn to live it out prayerfully and enthusiastically.

• Wake up to the God-dream inside of you. Jesus gave you a dream when He came into your life.
• Create a life mission statement. Goals can change by season or circumstance, but a life mission statement never changes.
• Challenge yourself to commit fully to your God-directed life mission, starting now.

If you’re already in a small group, participate in this study with them. Not in a small group? We have everything you need to gather a group of friends, neighbors, family members or coworkers together and host a group in your home or anywhere. A materials checkout desk will be available in the Gathering Space before and after worship through January 12. You can also contact Pastor Jessica Richard for more information.

If neither of these options work for you, consider attending one of our open Dare to Dream groups:

• Wednesdays beginning January 8, 6:15-7:45 p.m. in room 256
• Sundays beginning January 12, 11:00 a.m.-12 noon