Our August Monthly Serving Focus is dedicated to raising funds for the Dodger Food Locker, a vital non-profit organization committed to ensuring that students have enough to eat over the weekends. In the Dodgeville school district alone, 153 students receive discreet vouchers placed in their backpacks as they leave school on Friday afternoons, providing them with essential food supplies over the weekend. We invite you to join us in our mission to ensure no child goes hungry. Your support can make a meaningful difference in the lives of these students. This program will spend over $90,000 for the school year! Together, let's provide hope and nourishment for those who need it most.
To participate, you can:
Drop cash or coin donations in the collection jar at the Information Center on Sunday mornings.
Put a check or cash in your offering envelope and mark “MSF” in the memo line of the check or mark it on the envelope and place it in the offering box.
Give online and select DV Monthly Serving Focus as your donation category.
Thank you response from Sleep in Heavenly Peace:
Dear Hidden Valley Community Church,
We are so honored and humbled that you once again selected our Sleep in Heavenly Peace chapter as the recipient of your monthly service focus.
With grateful hearts, we thank you for your continued support of our Iowa County SHP chapter and our mission: "No kid sleeps on the floor in our town." We were truly amazed and in awe of the generosity shown throughout June’s Monthly Service Focus. Your donations translated directly into the construction of 10 beds, to get 10 kiddos off of the floor, sleeping comfortably and dreaming big.
Hidden Valley Community Church continues to go above and beyond, demonstrating an extraordinary spirit of generosity and love for the community. The community bed build that you graciously hosted and sponsored brought together people of all ages on a beautiful day to work side by side. Through willing hands and servant hearts, God’s love was shared in a tangible way, making a meaningful difference in the lives of local children and families.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for your kindness, generosity, contagious energy, commitment, and time. We are also grateful for the delicious snacks and sandwiches that kept our hardworking volunteers fueled throughout the day. The effort that each of you put into making this community build such a tremendous success touched us deeply.
As a church that warmly welcomes and serves our community, you helped nourish both body and spirit. Working together made the task lighter, filled servant hearts with joy, and will bring lasting blessings to families in need, all because you simply said, "We'd love to help."
With heartfelt gratitude,
Sherry Van Haren, Dave Warner,
and the Iowa County Sleep in Heavenly Peace Core Team of Volunteer Leaders
We recently welcomed Ryan Matteson and his family in June to tell us about their new project called “For His Name’s Sake”. This group will be taking down a tree in the city of Dodgeville on Saturday August 15. We are thrilled that they have 10 people signed up to help that day. They are looking for two people who will come alongside them as prayer partners for that day. You would go with Ryan one evening prior to the event to meet the homeowner and on the day of the tree cutting you would spend time praying for the event and getting to know the homeowner and other volunteers. If this interests you, please mailto:admin@hiddenv.com “Prayer Partner” on your Connection Card along with your contact information and we’ll get you connected with the Matteson family.
Baptism! Have you been wondering if baptism is your next step? Acts 10:48 says, “So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.” On Sunday, August 16, we will be baptizing those who have decided baptism is the next step in their faith. Jesus asks us to be baptized as an act of obedience that symbolizes turning our lives over to Him. We ask that you prayerfully consider if this is the next step God wants you to take. Baptism brochures are available at the Information Center. To sign up to be baptized email admin@hiddenv.com.
Join the Lunch Bunch beginning on July 21 for 5 Tuesdays in a row at Hidden Valley. We are starting a lunchtime Bible study -- pack your lunch and participate in a study on the book of John. We will begin at Noon and end promptly at 1:00 p.m. Come for the whole hour or come for 15 minutes. Bring your spouse, your kids, your neighbors, your friends. All are welcome!
Current Sermon Series: Been There, Done That…Do Better! What is better than gold…better than silver? We spend a lot of time seeking versions of “gold” and “silver” but there is a better search. Proverbs 16:16 tells us that a better search is wisdom. In this series we will listen to an author who has been there, done that and offers steps so we can do life better and find wisdom.
August 2 Proverbs on Friendship (National Friendship Day)
August 9 Proverbs on Words
August 16 Proverbs Emotions
August 23 Proverbs on People
August 30 Proverbs Work and School and Retirement
Collision: Our youth group is currently on summer break until September. Collision is for grades 5 -12 meets at Hidden Valley from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday evening during the school year. For more information, contact collision@hiddenv.com or follow the Collision Facebook page.
Life Groups at HVCC: Our current life groups can be found on our website: https://www.hiddenv.com/life-groups
Our service time is 9:00 a.m. Children’s programming is available for nursery through 5th grade. If you can’t join us in person, we do livestream our service at https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenvalleycommunitychurch.
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