This week we launched our missions convention where we focused on our great opportunity to share what God has done with the world. We looked at what it takes to become a world champion as God wants us to champion his causes throughout the world. God uses people, his power and provision to accomplish his dreams around the world. What is your place in the race to see that all will hear in our generation?

This weekend, we finished our journey through the Thessalonian letters with a theme that Paul mentioned in both books: the value of work. God created humans as stewards with the ability to use our intellect and effort to create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugliness, clarity out of confusion, and opportunity out of emptiness. These are all godlike activities. Work is worship, as we embrace this truth we provide for ourselves, the less fortunate and the work of God.

This weekend, we continued our journey through the Thessalonian books. In Thessalonica, the subject of the return of Christ had become an important topic. They were being persecuted and had much hope for the return of Jesus. But some had infiltrated their ranks to tell them they had missed it, and that Jesus had already returned. Paul addressed this in both of his letters to the church there. We looked at the promise of his coming and how we should live in light of these truths.

This weekend we welcomed Rick Pasquale as he shared God's word with us. Rick serves as a missionary to Italy and is the lead Pastor of the International Christian Fellowship of Rome. It is his vision to break barriers of religion, expand the outreach to over one million immigrants, and build a Lifeskills/Resource center for rescued, abused, and trafficked victims.

This week we continued our series on Thessalonians, as Pastor Jimmy looks with us at 1 Thessalonians 4:1-4 Have you met yourself? Sanctification is a process of becoming who you already are. Becoming more like Jesus is not the cause of salvation but the sign of who you already are in Christ. God wills his children to be Holy as he is Holy because, as a loving father, he knows that being sanctified is the best life for us.

This weekend, we continued our journey through the Thessalonians by looking at Paul's instruction for the grieving church. The church faced tremendous persecution and their great hope was the return of Christ to rescue them out of it. In their minds, Jesus could return at any time. They could deal with the persecution knowing that Jesus was coming back any day, but as the days went by, Jesus didn’t come back, and on top of that, believers were dying, what would happen to them? Paul is concerned that they learn appropriate Christian grief, instead of the wild and hopeless mourning that typified pagan funerals. We will look into the eyes of Christ who comforts the grieving and offers hope in victory.

This weekend we continued our journey through Thessalonians as we welcomed Pastor Rachael to the pulpit. Paul’s ministry to the Thessalonians was no easy task. The city, which was under Roman-Greco rule, was filled with its own problems of sexual sin, protestors, and persecution. Sound familiar? Though the city of Thessalonica was destroying itself from the inside out, Paul and his team still saw many come to Christ. How? Why? In a culture, that seemed so impossible to reach, let’s take a look at what Paul did so we may apply it to our culture that also seems impossible to reach.

This weekend we continued our journey through Thessalonians as we welcomed Pastor Rachael to the pulpit. Paul’s ministry to the Thessalonians was no easy task. The city, which was under Roman-Greco rule, was filled with its own problems of sexual sin, protestors, and persecution. Sound familiar? Though the city of Thessalonica was destroying itself from the inside out, Paul and his team still saw many come to Christ. How? Why? In a culture, that seemed so impossible to reach, let’s take a look at what Paul did so we may apply it to our culture that also seems impossible to reach.

This week we continued our series on the letters to the Thessalonians as we looked at Paul’s statements regarding the Satanic realm and the judgment of God. These aspects of our world and God’s heart do not often get taught but Paul addresses the justice of God in both letters. Let us open our hearts to learn more about who God is and who He made us to be.

This weekend, we welcomed Rich McLane, AGWM Missionary to Poland as he shared the word with us. Rich is an experienced church planter and has had great favor with the Polish government as one of the only government sponsored foreigners to hold a hunting license. This has given him the ability to reach out to other hunters and witness to them, without interference.