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God is Moving in Awesome Ways

Dear Church Family, 

As I write this article at the end of the first month of 2015 I am overwhelmed with how God is working in our church family! We have hit the ground running and God is moving in awesome ways. 

We have baptized in at least one of our services each week in January! We are ministering from Friday through Sunday each week as UPWARD basketball and cheer and our food pantry are up and running! We are literally reaching out and ministering to well over 1,000 people each weekend through our weekend ministries and worship services! God is so good to us and our church family is amazing in the way in which they are willing to serve!!! I am so thankful for all of you. 

Also, God has blessed us in our new worship service format. From January – September of 2014 we averaged 467 people in our combined worship attendance. From October 2014 – January 2015 we have averaged 530 people in our combined worship attendance since adding our third worship service. So, we are averaging 63 more per Sunday for a 13.5% increase in total worship attendance. It is no coincidence that during this time our baptisms have risen as well. I truly believe God is blessing our obedience to be willing to do what it takes to continue to reach out to people with the Gospel message. Thank you for being willing to change and sacrifice to see God do what only He can do!! 

We have also kicked off our Sunday night emphasis where adults are learning more about the Gospel, as well as, becoming more familiar with how they can share life more effectively with those in their lives. We had 74 adults for our first Sunday night together. We also kicked off our children’s Easter musical/drama and 54 kids came out and participated. That is amazing! Looking for God to continue to do big things on Sunday nights. 

Finally, we have entered into 2015 with a focus on missions like never before. We have added a new strategic partner to help us facilitate international missions. Culture Waves Global is this partner and one of our own church members, Ron Osborne is the founder/president of this great company. This year we are partnering with a few trips that he has to India and possibly China. Some of our members are going to India in March to participate in missions! I could not be more excited. You will being hearing more about these opportunities in the weeks and months to come. We also have a partnership with the North American Mission Board to minister in Detroit, Michigan as well. We will be taking three teams there this year as well. You need to pray about being involved in these mission opportunities. After you pray, find Pastor Bryan and get the details so you can be deployed to go serve in the name of the King of Kings! 

You now see why I feel overwhelmed with God’s goodness to us already at the end of the first month of 2015!! I cannot wait to see what else He has in store for us! 

I love you and I love being your pastor, 

Alan Scott

Greater Things and Future Things

I am overwhelmed thinking about all that God did for us in 2014!He has been so faithful to us!

Greater Things

This past year as a church family we entered into a campaign called “Greater Things”. This campaign was a call for continued investment by our church family into what God is doing in the life of our church. We had three goals to attain. We wanted to:

• Maintain what God has given us. (Facilities)
• Manage where God has led us. (Finances)
• Minister with God as He leads us. (Future)

We are well on our way to meeting these three goals. This past year we began giving our financial pledges to this campaign which has allowed us to already do many things. We have maintained our facilities by investing in a new shingled roof, repairing thousands of dollars of air conditioning units, and we have positioned ourselves for future growth by developing additional parking spaces. We are also managing our finances by continuing to aggressively pay down our debt to reach our goal of being debt free by the year 2018. All of this has allowed us to add another worship service back in October which has provided more seating capacity for worship, as well as, providing more space for our 2:42 groups. It is awesome to see how God can work through His people when they come together and give sacrificially!

Future Things

I am convinced that God has positioned us this past year to be more effective in ministry than ever before.

• We have in place now a mission strategy that will allow us to be more focused and effective in our call to be on mission locally, nationally, and internationally. Please be praying for how you can personally be involved by giving and/or going to the lost world all around us.
• We have updated our constitution and bylaws to reflect who we are as a church family. This may seem not too exciting, but it really is. We now can function effectively and clearly to be all that God would have us to be. We have guiding documents that are written and informed by scripture. That is very important to the life of a church. This document heightens scriptural authority and encourages biblical accountability. We celebrate the fact that we are Jesus Ruled, elder led, and congregationally accountable.
• We are beginning 2015 with the emphasis of living our life on Mission. In fact, beginning January 25th we will begin a special emphasis called “Life on Mission”. We are going to come together and really understand how to share life with others. I will be leading one large group study for six weeks on Sunday evenings. We will learn how we can be on mission every day; looking for opportunities to impact the lives of our family and friends with the life-changing message of the Gospel. I am praying that this will be a very impactful emphasis on the life of our church!!!

I am so excited for 2015!! I believe God is going to continue to do great things among us because I am convinced He has called us to do even greater things!!!!!!!

I love you and I love being your pastor!