Good afternoon church family,
Tomorrow is the Lord’s Day! We look forward to gathering to worship and honor the Lord together. Tomorrow at 9:30 am we will have a special business session at Serve as we discuss our intentions to join together with the people of Tulakes, forming one church together. We hope you will come to church early for this meeting. We will worship together at 10:45am as usual.
If the Lord wills, tomorrow could very well be our last Sunday morning service at Serve. Of course Serve will continue to be a ministry hub for us, and we will have other meeting, gatherings, and discipleship meetings going on there moving forward. We want to pause and remember the grace the Lord has provided for us in that space. Our time at Serve has truly been a blessing. We joined together there, have grown together there, and we have seen many lives touched and transformed in that space. While this will continue, things will look different. There is no doubt that this is a big change for all of us. We thank the Lord for all that he has done and all that he will continue to do. We thank him for the ministry of our coffee house, and for all the wonderful church ministry we have seen there. We thank him for the future he has planned for us.
Next Sunday, September the 21st, we will gather together at Tulakes for a combined worship gathering. The Sunday after, September 28th, we intend to gather there again and to have a special business session after church in order to update and adopt some important corporate structure related things. We will have more information for you on this tomorrow at our meeting.
One last thing, this week has been difficult and dark for the United States of America. Even in the darkness we have seen much light shine through. There are many evil people in our country who rejoice when they see wickedness, but I’m encouraged that there are many righteous people in our land also. There are a great many who have not bowed their knees to the demonic and wicked ideologies of the sexual revolution and the culture of death. Many Americans truly love Jesus. We are not alone. We lament at the loss of Charlie Kirk, we lament for his wife and kids, and we lament the wound inflicted on our nation. We pray for the Kirk family as they now must move on without Charlie. We pray for the peace of the United States. We pray for missions of voices to rise up and take a stand for what is right. Let us do as Jeremiah once called the Israelites to do.
Jeremiah 29:7 ESV — “But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”
For our part, may the events of this past week encourage us to project our voices even louder than before. Jesus is the only real answer for our broken country. May we take the gospel of Christ to the highways and bi-ways. May we truly work to saturate the place we live with the life-giving hope of Christ in word and in deed. By doing this we operate as hope dealers, truth tellers, restorers of broken things, and bringers of true welfare to our community.
May the grace and peace of the Lord be with you. May he make his face to shine upon you. May you find time to rest in his good favor towards you today.
In His steps,
Pastor Nick
Good letter, Nick
Excellent word, Pastor Nick.