Manna Family,
 
First of all I want to say a big “THANK YOU” for pressing in last month and committing to participate in our annual 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting. We will undoubtedly be seeing and feeling the results of this corporate time of consecration for many months to come, and beyond. I’m so honored to serve alongside a church that is aiming at continual Devotion to Jesus. Great days ahead! 
 
February is traditionally the month of love, so we’re going to dive right into God’s definition of love in order to better live out His loving ways to those closest to us – especially within our marriages. Our Sermon Series for February will be entitled, Love & Marriage, and each sermon will help us not only receive God’s love in a healthy way, but ultimately become more loving disciples and spouses. 
 
The month will end with a couple’s conference designed specifically for you to practice and grow in love, with very practical steps to create habits and patterns in your relationships. I wish I could tell you to sign up – but we actually filled up our 25 couple’s slots within a few hours of announcing this opportunity! I guess that means we’ll look into doing another one in the future. Good problems for sure!
 
Have I told you lately that I love you? 🙂 Honored to be your pastor – let’s change the world! 

Chris Shinnick

Mark Your Calendars

Love God

21 Days of Prayer & Fasting

In January we hosted three powerful nights of prayer & worship! As we moved through the Devotion series we learned what it meant to repent, receive, resist, and reproduce. We have heard multiple testimonies of how God has moved in the lives of our people and we are so encouraged by all he is continuing to do in our church!

Manna Kids

Loving God
Loving each other
Loving the world!
 
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Love Each Other

Manna STU

In January, our students had the incredible opportunity to lead one of the church wide Prayer & Worship nights! We are so proud of every student who participated, and we loved seeing so many students show up to support their peers. It was such a powerful night together with our Church family!

STU is officially back for the semester and we have kicked off a new series on the Holy Spirit. Over the next few weeks we will be unpacking who the Holy Spirit is, and what role He plays in our lives.

STU CAMP 2026! Camp spots are filling up fast! For more information or to register, click on the link below. 

STU Camp Info & Registration

Galentine’s 2026 is happening on February 13th! This is always such a sweet time of ladies celebrating ladies! For more information or to RSVP please email Katie Hendrock at katie.hendrock@manna.church.

 

Small Groups

On January 25th we hosted our first ever My Manna Connection Night in the auditorium! With over 60 different small groups and serve teams represented we filled the auditorium with joy, desserts, and so many opportunities for connection!

Are you interested in joining a small group or joining a serve team? Click the button below for more information!

Growth Track

Serve Team Spotlight 

This month we want to take a moment to honor someone who rarely seeks the spotlight but faithfully holds so much of Growth Track together. For nearly a full year, Caitlin O’Connell has served every single Sunday morning and many evenings without complaint, without fanfare, and always with joy. She has one of the purest servant’s hearts you will ever meet. Whether behind the scenes or quietly stepping in wherever help is needed, she makes it her personal mission to support the team and solve problems before most people even realize there is a need. Caitlin is loyal, trustworthy, deeply intuitive, and unwaveringly committed to the people and mission of Manna Church. Serving is not something she does, it’s truly who she is. In fact, if we told her she couldn’t SERVE, she might genuinely be heartbroken. We are profoundly grateful for her faithfulness, her humility, and her love for God’s house. The impact she makes may often go unseen, but it is felt everywhere. Thank you for living out what it truly means to SERVE with excellence and with love. Growth Track and our entire church is better because of you.

Growth Track Is Growing and We’re Making More Room for YOU! 

Because Growth Track has officially outgrown our space, we’re excited to announce something new: multiple Growth Track options every month! You can still join us for FirstStep during our Sunday Experience at either 9:15am or 10:30am; but now we’re offering NextStep through Home Experience evening groups to give you more flexibility than ever. That means you can plan ahead, choose the group that fits your schedule, and jump in when it works best for you. All available options are now listed on the Small Groups landing page under [Growth Track]. Click the link below to view what groups are available. We can’t wait to welcome even more of you into community, purpose, and belonging!

Love The World

International Missions

Many of our mission partners are sending their gratitude for abundant end of year giving. It is always a joy to see how God will provide for every need. Thank you for doing your part in that too!

February 11th is the day our team leaves for India! Pray for them as they work to encourage and equip our partners there in their daily work. India is a particularly hard nation to serve the vulnerable in because it is so counter-cultural to care for the needy. There is much social opposition to any kind of aid work, but even more so if it has Christian values attached to it. Pray that our team will have the right words to say, that good conversations will be had, that skills and knowledge will be shared and that this visit will be a huge blessing and refreshment to our partner. Pray for the students that the team will work with and that they will have open hearts to hear the truth of the gospel and feel compelled to seek Jesus.