September14 Week One: Invitation to Abide21 Week Two: Prayer – “ask for anything you want and it will be granted”28 “Pulse on Pause” - All Age Celebration - HarvestOctober 5 Week Three: Bible – “his word remains in you”12 Week Four: Overflow of Joy –“filled with my joy… your joy will overflow”19 CAP Sunday 26 “Pulse on Pause” - All Age CelebrationNovember 2 Week Five: Sabbath Rest – “remain in me... remain in my love”9 Week Six: Serving others – “I appointed you to go and produce lasting

fruit”

“I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.

“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.

“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!

John 15:1-11

He is the Father you have been looking for all your life

We can know God as a Father who is patient and long suffering with us...

We can know God as a waiting Father; he wants you to come home….

We can know God as a compassionate Father who longs that we would turn to him so he could welcome us home

We can know God as a Father who runs to us to rescue us God’s love come

running towards us with arms outstretched…

We can know God as a father who wants you to experience the affectionate

embrace…

God is a demonstrative Father who wants you to experience relational intimacy with him

God is a forgiving Father he wants you to be forgiven and forgiving.

We can know God as an accepting Father who longs that we would know we are his children

We can know God as an extravagant Father who can give you more than you can ask or imagine

We can know God as a Father who smiles, laughs rejoices and loves parties