First thing first.

You’ve obviously reached a new website!  This has been under construction for months and today is our launch.  Spend some time looking around on it and familiarizing yourself with it.  My thanks (and thanks from all of us) to Pastor Faulk, Amy Faulk and Justin Beaton for making this happen.  It is a great improvement (that’s a colossal understatement!).  And thank you, Malachi James, for being our webmaster for a long time now.

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Tomorrow is Good Friday.  Why on earth is a day of death referred to in the church calendar as “Good”?

I will have a video devotion online after 7:00 PM tomorrow night. You will find it here.

In it we will consider what is “Good” about Good Friday.  Read Romans 5 in preparation.  Briefly, you wonder about Christ’s sufficiency when you are suffering?  Whether in genuine agony of body and soul or merely “suffering” from inconvenience?  Here is perspective.  The Lord Jesus Christ died for you and reconciled you to God while He was your enemy!  That is what is “Good” about Good Friday.  If Jesus Christ died for us while we were still sinners, alienated from Him and despising Him, He will surely care for us now that we are His children!

Join with us tomorrow evening and consider the Goodness of Good Friday.

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I thank God for your good giving as we enter the fourth week of not meeting together.  We are above budget.  I thank you and plead with you for this to continue.

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Some reminders...

Different people make different decisions about gathering during this COVID19 situation.  We have guidelines from the governor that we have obligation to honour (Romans 13:1-10).  We have a command from God that we are to “gather” (Hebrews 10:25).  My point is that people will seek to balance those two things differently.  What is being demanded of us is not a taking away of our religious rights.  We are not forbidden to meet because we are a church.  The bars are closed, too!  So, in the midst of differing opinions, we should honour one another and defer to one another with Christian charity.  You probably have some extra time on your hands.  Listen to the I Corinthians sermons from chapters 8 and following for a reminder of how to act when we reach different conclusions about things that are not direct commands of God!  The Elders are not going to make mandates  about your lives, but you should keep Romans 13:10 in your mind in whatever choices you make.

The bulletin has a note therein concerning the Church Library.  Read it and use the library!

One last thing.  For your own sake would you call before stopping by the church?  It is important to me that someone be here during office hours, but sometimes that cannot be the case.  If we know you are coming it will be helpful for both of us.  This would pertain to the library, dropping VBS craft materials off, bringing food for Harvest Outreach and more.