Last week our local high schools held graduation exercises for their senior classes and summer has unofficially started. Everyone is talking about vacations and travel plans…including myself. Yet a lot is happening at FBC.
During Sunday’s worship services we commissioned our mission team that will fly to Birmingham, England on Monday. The team will spend several days going door to door in England’s second largest city inviting residents to a community event next Saturday – we call those type events a block party. All of this is to support a new church plant that one of our IMB missionaries is working with. We learned from our work in London that white Brits will respond to this type ministry and spiritual conversations often occur. Team members have been trained to share their testimony in an evangelistic manner with the hope of sharing the gospel. Please be praying for the team: Ron and Kathy Goolsby, Jim and Jackie Davis, Karen Olson, Christian Rector, and Steve Hogg. Our flight lands in Birmingham early Tuesday morning.
During Sunday’s 10:30 worship service four couples participated in Parent-Child Dedication, which is always a meaningful experience. The tears in the young parents’ eyes speak to the love they have for their children. Pray for these families, as the world their children will grow up in is not always friendly toward the truth of God’s word.
Sunday’s sermon dealt with prayer and the struggle many of us have to maintain a consistent and meaningful prayer life. I offered a few suggestions aimed at keeping our prayer life from becoming boring and monotonous. I encourage you to watch the sermon on the church website if you were not able to make it to FBC yesterday.
Also if you have yet viewed the sermon from the previous week about our mission trip to Zambia in Africa, I hope you will do so because we are going to sign a partnership agreement with our IMB missionaries in Zambia to work with them for the next several years. God may lead some of you to go to Zambia on a mission trip and I want you to know all about it.
Once I arrive in England, I will begin posting on the blog updates and photographs from our trip. So be sure to check the blog each day to follow us. You can also follow me on Instagram at steve_hogg.
Pastor Steve Hogg
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