04.14.09
Latest Church Letter
Dear Church Family,
What a great day we had on Sunday! The building was packed and the Spirit of God was moving. The music was a blessing (didn’t the flutes sound great?). Mackenzie melted my heart with her recitation of the 23rd Psalm. It is a rewarding and encouraging sight to see several young families in our church raising their children with such a distinctively Christian emphasis. All I can say is, ‘Glory to God’! They’ll be the preachers, pastors, missionaries, church-workers, and homemakers of the near future and we can behold in them a glimmer of practical hope for the cause of Christ.
I wanted to get you a letter out to share a few things with you that I really can’t stress enough in our regular services. I want to fervently encourage you to be in prayer and preparation for our upcoming Missions Conference, only a couple of weeks away. It will truly be unlike anything we’ve ever done before, with great singing, inspiring missions presentation, and Spirit-empowered preaching from Bro. Ron. It will be an opportunity for us to “prove the sincerity of our love” (2 Cor 8:8) in giving and, equally important, to have our burden for world evangelism renewed and expanded. The truth is that few of our children will develop in to political dignitaries, professional athletes, or history-altering professionals. We have plenty of those anyway. However, a little Baptist Church is a great place for our children to hear the call of Christian service; and there’s no more likely occasion for such a call than a Missions meeting full of men and women giving their all for the cause of Christ around the world. Please, clear your schedule and be in your seat each and every night. Be advised that we’ll receive a love-offering for our visiting missionaries on Friday night, having a pot-luck supper on Saturday evening (the first in our newly completed Fellowship Hall), and making our faith promises in the altar on Saturday night. The Conference will be Wednesday April 29 through Saturday May 2 at 7:00 PM nightly (the Saturday meal will be at 6:00 PM). Our missionaries will be ministering in song and word in all of our services that following Sunday.
I also wanted to bring you up to speed on an exceedingly important change we’ll be instituting in the coming month. Beginning Sunday, May 17th we’ll be conducting Morning Bible Study at the new time of 9:45 AM. Bro. Gene Lamkin is our Discipleship Director and will be overseeing the transition into our new format. The new time will permit us to conduct one-on-one discipleship concurrently with Children’s and Adult Bible Study. This is a very important element of our overall church ministry and we’re hoping to have better participation as we put more emphasis and organization in to this segment of our work. Every member in our church should be involved in our discipleship ministry through regular Sunday Morning Bible Study.
We’ll also be wrapping up Awana in the coming weeks as well, so be here for our End of the Year Family Night. I wanted to be sure to encourage you ladies to participate in the upcoming Ladies Care Group Mother’s Day Banquet on May 16th. As always this will be a real blessing to all our ladies.
Please forgive the length of this correspondence (and thanks for actually reading the whole thing!). It’s an incredible privilege to be your Pastor and I love you all very much.
