Samara Church

Samara is a gathering of Jesus followers sharing dinner and the love of Christ throughout Greater Lansing. After all - we’ve saved a place for you!

Whether you’re new to church or new to Mid-Michigan, we hope you’ll join us.

06/24/2024

Dinner church & Bracelet making

03/25/2024

Hosanna, Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Happy Holy week

04/19/2023

Easy & fun service project idea for kids of all ages:

Color cards and write encouraging messages! Send them to area prisoners, nursing facilities, active military, or anyone else you feel led to bless. These will brighten their day (and yours)! ☀️

Jesus said he was sent "to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

The gospel (good news) according to Jesus' disciple Luke, as recorded in the Bible (Luke 4:18-21)

Jews already knew the year to which Jesus referred as the "Jubilee" - a cyclical setting right of all that was wrong in society, which God instructed the Jews to proclaim and celebrate roughly every 50 years. There's a reason we call great joy "jubilation." When you are freed from slavery or a debtors prison after years of suffering for taxes you couldn't pay; your family's land is returned to you; or all your debts are forgiven, that's exactly what you feel.

Jesus was (and is) the ultimate Jubilee. He paid our debts once and for all, and gives us new life -- freedom from our own failures, freedom from others' opinions of us (whether desperatley feared or desperately craved), freedom from sin and punishment and death.

But - as if that wasn't enough - he doesn't let our life look like a "living Hell," either.

He cares about our circumstances, our wellbeing, and our healing NOW, just as scripture shows he always has. Not just once in first century Judea. Not just for some in the political or religious "in crowd" (who owned the land, collected the taxes, ran the courts, and paid the prison guards, by the way). Not just once, someday, after a scripted prayer. Not just every 50 years or in a heaven forever far away.

Jesus cares about you - not anonymously, but by name. He can heal you - not for a price with the letters behind his name, but for free with the letters from his lips.

He is the only one who can set you free. And he wants you to experience great joy. Here. Now. Forever.

Do you?

What does "good news" for others look like to you?

God bless you!

04/02/2023

They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,

“Hosanna!”

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”

“Blessed is the king of Israel!”

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:

“Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion; see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey’s colt.”

John 12:13-15

Happy Palm Sunday

01/02/2023

Delicious cornbread made with corn grown, harvested, milled, and baked by Samara Church for communion.

We had the privilege of delivering communion to the many believers who are home sick today and are praying for your speedy and complete recovery!

RECIPE:

1 cup corn flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup brown sugar
3.5 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
1/3 cup melted butter
1 egg
1 cup of milk

Mix dry ingredients first, then add the remaining ingredients until smooth.

Bake at 400° in a greased cast iron skillet for 23 minutes

07/06/2022

Hey friend!

🐸 hanging out on our

06/29/2022

"Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land."
Song of Songs 2:12

06/25/2022

Let the pea harvest begin!
These tiny plants have already given the neighboring a boostExpect these to make an appearance at dinner church!

"Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
Galatians 6:8-9

06/23/2022

"He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake."

Psalm 23:3

06/04/2022

Samara Church was recently given a 12ft x 200ft piece of land to help steward on behalf of our community. Yesterday we had the joy of getting together to seed a cover crop that will rejuvenate the soil for next year (and, apparently, feed a few birds in the process lol). Follow along to see what grows here to give back to our community!

“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
Genesis 8:22

"What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building."
1 Corinthians 3:5-9

Seeds from

05/29/2022

DIY bee house - drill holes in pieces of wood, assemble in shapes you like, set-up & watch for 🐝🐝🐝

“But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
or let the fish in the sea inform you.
Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind."
Job 12:7-10

05/16/2022

"Let's just talk about and , dad." 😂 - Gabriel (age 3) planting and rabbit cowpeas.

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Clarklake, MI

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http://samara.church/

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