All Church Potluck this Sunday Evening

Join us for an all church potluck during our Sunday Evening Worship gathering, this Sunday, May 26 at 7:00 PM. Please bring a dish to share.

Job Skills Workshop

We will be starting this up next Saturday. Even if you have a job I believe this would be beneficial for you to attend. Please register today at wmissionarychurch@sbcgloabl.net or if you have questions feel free to contact Josh Lange. This service will be absolutely free!
 

Commiting Your Life to the Church

We had a great Easter Services this past weekend and we had a number of visitors!  It is nice to have a packed auditorium for our worship gatherings.  Afterwards, however, I wondered how many people will actually commit to follow Christ with their lives?  Will we ever see them again?  You see, we somehow have made following Jesus a once a year thing. But in reality the Resurrection should effect every area of our life!  Christ dies for the church!

Pastor Matt

(The Following section has been taken from the book, Multiply, by Francis Chan.)

Committing Your Life to the Church

First, let’s make sure that we are not guilty of belittling God’s church in any way. It’s not a social club; it’s not a building, and it’s not an option. The church is life and death. The church is God’s strategy for reaching our world. What we do inside the church matters. We tend to equate church life with events and programs. But these are not what make a church. Programs are helpful to the extent that they facilitate the life and mission of the church, but we can’t equate well-attended events with the health of the church. 

God cares about the way we love each other and the way we pursue His mission. The church is a group of redeemed people that live and serve together in such a way that their lives and communities are transformed. What matters is your interaction with the people God has placed in your life. If you are not connected with other Christians, serving and being served, challenging and being challenged, then you are not living as He desires, and the church is not functioning as He intended. Throughout the Bible, we see pictures of the global church (which includes all followers of Jesus in all locations) and the local church (which includes particular followers of Jesus in a particular location). Out of 114 times that the “church” is mentioned in the New Testament, at least ninety of them refer to specific local gatherings of believers who have banded together for fellowship and mission. God intends for every follower of Jesus to be a part of such a gathering under the servant leadership of pastors who shepherd the church for the glory of God.

Despite the clear priority that the Bible puts on believers being part of a local church, many followers of Christ try to  live the Christian life apart from serious, personal commitment to a local church. The reasons are many. We are self-reliant and self-sufficient, and the kind of mutual interdependence and even submission and accountability to others that the Bible talks about frightens us. We are often indecisive, hopping from one church to another looking for the “perfect place” and the “perfect people.” Many of us have been hurt in the past by things that have happened to or around us in the church, and others of us simply don’t see the importance of being specifically connected to a local church. But the Bible says the local church is important. God has entrusted local churches with godly leaders who teach us His Word and care for our souls (Heb. 13:17; 1 Pet. 5:1–8; 1 Tim. 3:1–13; 5:17; Titus 1:5–9). God has united us together in local churches to keep one another from sinning and straying from Christ (Gal. 6:1–5; Matt. 18:15–20). God has commanded us to gather together in local assemblies where we preach God’s Word, celebrate the Lord’s Supper, baptize new believers, and pray for and encourage one another (Acts 2:42; Heb. 10:24–25). Then we scatter to care for believers and to share the gospel with unbelievers (Acts 2:43–47). Clearly, being a disciple and making disciples involves committing your life to a local church where you are joined together with other believers under biblical leadership to grow in the likeness of Christ and to express the love of Christ to the world around you.

We would like to invite you to our Easter Services this week!

Please register here for this years Vacation Bible School

Vacation Bible School: June 23-27
 (6:00 PM—8:00 Pm)

ESCAPE TO ATHENS WITH PAUL

Imagine leaving a life of privilege and power to face angry mobs, painful imprisonment, and chain-breaking earthquakes—all to spread the life-changing truth of God’s love. Learn the jaw-dropping story of the Apostle Paul straight from Paul himself! In an ancient “anything goes” culture, Paul will inspire kids to share the truth of God’s immeasurable love today.

Please see Susie Maloney for more details of how you can be involved.  Please remember to have a successful VBS, we must have our church family involved in this large task.  If you have a child who is interested in participating in this years VBS, please register them online.

  Please Register Here

Easter Weekend

Easter is a great time to bring a friend to our worship gatherings!

Give Your All to Christ

“Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so much of your work. I want YOU!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to KILL IT! No half measures will do. I don’t want to only prune a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of you a new self---in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give you Myself. My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity