The Spring Garage Sale has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.
Any items you wish to donate, can be left in the designated rooms in the Education Building.
The Spring Garage Sale has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.
Any items you wish to donate, can be left in the designated rooms in the Education Building.
The project to remodel the windows and doors around the church office, nursery, library, and Refuge will soon begin with a total estimated cost of approximately $100,000. To date we have collected over $30,000.
Offerings and pledges will continue to be received throughout the construction period.
Join us as we celebrate Mother’s Day with 2 services. 8:30am and 11am. Sunday School will follow the first service. We hope to see you there!
Parents need a break too. Our students want to help parents, while parents help us with raising money for our summer mission camp. Our students and helpers want to help parents by planning an evening of events for kids (ages 4 – 10 yrs), including meals and games while parents are able to get a few hours off. Kids can be dropped off at 5:30pm and children need to be picked up at 9pm. The cost is $10 per child and includes the cost of food.
All events will be held in the Family Life Center, and kids will be supervised by students and adults through the night. To come, please be sure to sign up so we can make plans for you to attend.
By this all men will know you are my disciples – that you love one another. Love matters to God. In fact, the entire message of the Bible is centered on the idea of love. Join us this Sunday as Pastor Jeff continues in our series of Love Matters.
If you missed a sermon, head over to our sermon library to listen to previous messages.
Welcome! If you are new here, we want you to feel welcomed and at home. Our church staff and family want you to know that we are so glad you are joining us. If you need anything at any time, feel free to call our office or contact our staff. We have added a few commonly asked questions here below and a few other resources around. We look forward to having you join us this week!
Students today are not children finishing childhood. They are young adults preparing for a real world. We see many examples of this in Scripture. Over and over we read how young people did remarkable things for God and His kingdom. Students today are not the church of tomorrow as much as they are the church of now, alongside adults, fulfilling the work of the ministry of Jesus Christ.
We cannot understand the amazing gospel, the great narrative of Scripture detailing the mission of God, without the role of young people in critical times. When we read the Bible, we can easily see that God often used youth to fulfill his purpose. And because God is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, we can know that He still uses young people.
Students today want less to do with institutional programs and religious rituals and more to do with personal relationship and social injustices. In the movement of Christianity, we must clearly speak truth and find a vision for living in light of that truth. When the gospel has been at the center of the faith of believers, Christianity can become such a force. We must also take care to not become so involved in the movement itself, but become overly involved with the Master of the movement.
It’s about Christ, not our preferences. Worshiping God, not a style of music. Showing and telling others the gospel, not our political or philosophical views.
People like you and me are the kind of people God wants to use in His movement. Are you taking part?
Philippians 4:13 – “I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Out of the millions of different ways God could have chosen to tell the world about His love, He chose you and I. He designed us to tell a story. In fact, He designed all of creation to tell a story. And that story, as a believer, should always point back to Him.
As I prepared for the series Jonah and the City, I am reminded that we as disciples are called to be on mission everywhere we go. God’s love isn’t just for believers. God’s love is for all. It’s for the person who cut you off this morning on your drive to work. It’s for the drunkard walking into the bar tonight. It’s for the single teenage mother going to night classes. It’s for the conservative. It’s for the liberal. It’s for our friends. It’s for our enemies.
You have been given a divine appointment, God-created opportunity, to tell others about His love. Exactly who you are and exactly where you are in your life, God wants to use you to spread the Gospel message of Christ. As we learn from Paul, speaking to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:1-2, (paraphrased): Timothy, all that you have heard and seen from me, show and teach others who will show and teach others, who will continue the legacy.
This is the multiplication method of discipleship that Jesus taught. Make disciples who make disciples. Our compassion for the others, including the lost should be imitating the compassion our Father has for His creation. And what better story to know about God’s compassion than the story of Jonah.