Woodbury Community Church

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"Woodbury Community Church exists to honor God by making more disciples for Jesus Christ."

Sunday School Faith Zone: Children 3 yrs.-4th grade, meet in the Multi-Purpose Room
Sunday School Club 56: 5th & 6th Graders, meet in the Club 56/Youth Room
Adult Ministry: The Book of James, meet in the Conference Room

College Age & Young Single Adults: Meet in the Youth Room for discussion and prayer

The Challenge Is Here!

Are you up for The Challenge? In 2010, the congregation of Woodbury Community Church is taking The Challenge; a church-wide initiative to read through the Bible in a year. It's never too late to join in on the program. We're excited to see what God does through The Challenge.
for the Daily Bible readings: Jan.-June, 2010 July-Dec. 2010

Pastor Brian Schulenburg and Guest Speaker, Mark Brouwer are team teaching a two week series entitled "A Passion for Purity." We'll look at the timeless truths that two very small New Testament letters written to 1st Century Christians, teach to us as Christians living in the 21st Century.

November 14 The Naked Truth: What The Bible Has to Say About Sex, 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8, Pastor Brian Schulenburg

“You can’t escape it. From the grocery line to billboards, from television shows to music, we live in a sex saturated world. The messages that we receive are so contrary to what Scripture teaches. God isn’t opposed to sex, He created it! What God wants you to experience is sex at its best. His standards aren’t designed to rob you of joy, but to give you the best relationship imaginable this side of heaven. This Sunday, we’ll look at 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 and see that sexual purity can’t be obtained without an absolute commitment to holiness and seeing sex from God’s perspective. We’ll contrast lust and love and look at the difference that true love makes in a relationship.”

November 21 What Are You Thirsty For?, John 4:13-14, Guest Speaker, Mark Brouwer

How do we understand the struggles in our lives that are so deep that "just say no" solutions don't work? Particularly when it comes to struggling with sexual behavior, many of us are confused and discouraged that we can't maintain our commitment to purity. In this passage, we see Jesus' interaction with a woman who had struggles of her own, and are confronted with a new way of seeing "Every man's - and many woman's - battle."

Mark Brouwer is a passionate advocate for men who want to live with purity in an impure world. He has ministered in variety of capacities: as a musician, pastor, church planter, counselor and trainer. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minnesota; and received his Master of Divinity (cum laude) from Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. More recently, he is a graduate of Coach University (in the Core Essentials Program for Life and Leadership Coaching).

Mark has been the founding pastor of two churches: In 1992 he started North Austin Community Church in Austin, Texas (a daughter church of Sunrise Christian Reformed Church, in Austin). In 1998, he started Bridgewood Church in Savage, Minnesota (a daughter church of Wooddale Church, in Eden Prairie). He has served on the Home Mission Board of the Christian Reformed Church, consulted with many church planters, and written articles on leadership for such magazines as The Banner, and Leadership Journal. He is contributing author of A Christian Handbook of Abuse, Addiction, and Difficult Issues, and is coauthor of Sexual Addiction and Internet Pornography from Kevin Mayhew Publishing.

Early in 2006, Mark left his role as senior pastor of Bridgewood Church to partner with Dr. Mark Laaser in his work with men struggling with sexual purity. Since that time, he as served as Director of Training for Faithful and True Ministries, an organization devoted to helping people recover from sex addiction, and training pastors and clinicians to better deal with this growing problem.

He is also the director of Recovery Remixed, an organization devoted to applying timeless recovery wisdom to today’s challenges. Recovery Remixed offers resources, teaching, counseling, leadership and recovery coaching (done over the phone), and teleseminars. It’s two-fold focus is: (1) people who want to live with sexual sanity in our sexually-overcharged world, and (2) leaders who want to expand their leadership without shrinking their souls. In addition to teaching in churches and conducting workshops and teleseminars, Mark currently leads five to six coaching groups each week, some for church leaders, and some for recovering sexual strugglers.

In his work with Faithful and True and Recovery Remixed, Mark has helped hundreds of men take their next step towards recovery. He lives with his wife Charlene and their two sons in Savage, Minnesota.