Send Off

Yesterday at Harvest Community Church was unique. There aren't many Churches that ever plant another Church, much less send 30% of its people to that new Church; and so it was quite unique that we would be able to share together in the sending out of Birch Hills Community Church to our neighboring town of Melrose. It was a meaningful service and one that I hope propels the group on to life and ministry in their community. May God get all the glory!

As with any send off comes the time when those who aren't going have to look around and get to the task of picking up and moving forward. May Harvest Community Church be about moving forward with the God sized task He has yet ahead for us. May God get all the glory!

The Last Supper

This Sunday, October 24th we will be holding a 'Last Supper'. Actually it will be a 'Last Lunch' I suppose. We will be holding a commissioning service to bless those folks that will be launching a new community of believers in Melrose. It is going to be a powerful service as we engage in Kingdom work by blessing the work of our/their hands. After the service we will share together in a meal. It will be great and I hope and pray that it is our largest attendance as we link arms and hearts together on this most sacred obligation.
The potluck meal schedule: Last name A-L bring a main dish & dessert, last name M-Z bring a main dish & salad.
See you Sunday!

Church Planting: Here and There

It was great to have Timo Heimlich with us Sunday and for some home visits in the afternoon/evening. I am always blessed to get a different perspective from someone who is in the trenches and in another culture. It is really a privilege to have someone of Timo's caliber in partnership with us and really interested in our churches working together to help each other pursue God's calling on our ministries. I was particularly challenged to 'do things together'; the idea that we take someone along with us whereever we go with whatever it is we are doing. How do you make disciples of Jesus? Bring them along. When you think about it is at once the simplest, and maybe yet the most difficult way to make a disciple. Simple for sure. It is really no different that how we parent our children. Difficult for sure. No one I've ever talked to says that raising children is easy...at least not those who have done it. It is certainly the same way with making disciples. And what they see is plain to them. It is a high calling on you and I to live before Christ all the time. In the seemingly more 'spiritual' times of life, but no less in the mundane. Jesus calls us to Himself all the time, and He calls us to 'bring someone along'. Let us meditate on that challenge together...and then go do it!