Hello Friends and Family! Welcome to the final installment of our summer series that has helped us to focus on understanding and applying the idea of faith in God to our lives. We’re so thrilled you came. Our prayer is that each one of us will hear and encounter God in a clear and personal way while we’re together.“The Arena: Inspiring a Generation of Champions” is about what can happen as we move beyond our fears and give our all to the race God has set before us. It’s about the encouragement we can get from studying God’s Hall of Faith from Hebrews 11. These are God’s gold medal winners who can inspire us to be all we can as we walk with God.Today, we’ll be taking a broad brushstroke at several of the characters who were able, by faith, to overcome their weaknesses and be used in positive ways to influence others. We’ll all relate because we’re all weak in some ways. Isn’t it great to know that God takes us as we are and allows us to be in process with Him? I love how personal God is to me – when I am weak, He is strong.Please stop by our Next Step Bookstore and look over the books I selected for this faith series. Many of them are stories of folks whose stories will inspire you as you read about how they overcame tremendously difficult circumstances.Pastor Ron