With our theme of Being a House of Prayer , we're having a Pastoral Prayer every Sunday. We'll have a different topic to pray about each month led by an elder. January's prayer topic is "Worship and the Attributes of God". Today, I read Exodus 3:13-14 and prayed a prayer of worship thanking God for His nature as revealed by His many names. After service, we had our first Church Family Meeting. We praised God for all the wonderful things we enabled us to accomplish in 2019. And we also talked about our initiatives for 2020: Increase focus on developing a culture of prayer Developing a Disciple-Making Culture (The Vine Project phase 2) Youth Worship Services (2nd & 3rd Sundays) Increased discipleship of men Welcome Anthony Easter to be the musician for the Youth Praise Team on 4th Sundays 4th Sunday Youth Praise Age Expansion (8 to 18) Development of Christian Counselor’s Ordination Celebrate the church’s 155th anniversary ...
In the beginning was the Word ("logos"), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.