Some awesome testimonies from Fall Retreat!

In his evening session, Sevo Lwali speaks on love in community and how it can not only impact the body of Christ, but the people we come in contact with.

Our guest speaker Sevo Lwali, draws our attention to the two brothers in the parable of the prodigal son and how they each respond to God's love for them. Which do you relate to more? The younger brother, responding to God's love our of shame? Or the older, responding in fear?

Despite being a diverse body of believers, the church should exemplify unity to the world. But the unity of God looks different from the unity of the world, being based on our connection with God rather than with one another.

Tom Trask revisits the parable of the prodigal son to speak on the Father's other son and how he relates to diversity. Too often, the church is choosy about who they let in, depending sometimes on status, pasts, or even race. But God calls us to love our brothers and sisters regardless of our differences, looking rather at what we have in common, our faith in Christ.

Tom Trask kicks the semester and the new theme by discussing the parable of the prodigal son focusing on the love of the Father.

Tom ends the semester by lauching the next with the new series, "Love One Another." While loving the world is important, Christ says it is by our love for one another that others will identify us with Him. If we can not do this, we will never love the world properly.

Guest speaker Rev. Ken Wilcox asks us the simple question, "What do you see when you look at the cross?" At Jesus' crucifixion, many people saw different things when they looked at the cross of Christ, including shames, profit, and failure. What do you see?

Passion is what drives us forward towards the greater things Christ has promised. Using the story of Paul and Silas in prison in Acts 16, Angela speaks on the defining characteristics of passion for the Lord.

Passion is what drives us forward towards the greater things Christ has promised. Using the story of Paul and Silas in prison in Acts 16, Angela speaks on the defining characteristics of passion for the Lord.