I wouldn’t trade my Christmas memories as a child for anything! For 14 years I was an only child and every Christmas morning the attention of my parents and grandparents were totally focused on ME!As ...  Read More

FOURTH WORSHIP GATHERING DISCONTINUED AFTER DECEMBER 22 Back in August, in an attempt to create space in our overcrowded Sunday morning gatherings and to try to reach people that we weren’t already re...  Read More

Week three of my sabbatical focused on a trip to Oregon for the Pastor’s Prayer Summit. Thirty years ago, a group of pastors and I who had already been praying together an hour a week every week for o...  Read More

Sabbatical Week Two My word for the year is “Discipline.” It was something that struck me when I taught the Ministry Leadership Course last Fall (I’m excited for Justin to teach it this Spring!). In o...  Read More

SABBATICAL HAS BEGUN . . . One week down and seven to go!I thought the video produced to share the news of my sabbatical was GREAT! It was so funny that some of the punch lines couldn’t be heard in ch...  Read More

Have you noticed what God has been doing this Fall? Since the first of October, we have been experiencing an all-time record in our adult worship attendance! GOD IS AT WORK!!!There are two days that a...  Read More

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?We have had three Sundays recently that were among our highest 3-service attendances ever! (outside of Easter and Christmas)On 1 October, 584 adults were in our worship gatheri...  Read More

You may not be ready to see Christmas decorations popping up in stores, but for us, it’s time for Operation Christmas Child to get underway so that they gifts of God’s love can reach the arms of child...  Read More

PRAY that God will use our efforts “For the One” whose life will be changed by our love for Jesus and how His love will flow through us out into our community on that day!Here’s what you need to know ...  Read More

PROJECT SERVE NEXT SUNDAY!We all probably agree that a healthy church is not confined to the four walls of its building.Well, Project Serve is the event that helps accomplish that for us!Because NEXT ...  Read More

PROJECT SERVEBeginning in 2015, with the exception of one year (2017), we have canceled our regular worship gatherings to go serve in our surrounding neighbors.The Golden Acres community has been espe...  Read More

PREPARING FOR GLSNothing easier to forgo than to an unknown blessing but please don’t let this blessing pass you by!1. REGISTERIt’s not too late! Sure you missed the discounts but the biggest loss wil...  Read More