What does is look like to live as those made alive in Christ in these days. Particularly around the issue of Covid-19. How do we handle vaccination and non-vaccination? How are we to be as the church when we don’t all agree? Paul tells us to set our hearts on things above, not on earthly […]
All that we have been learning boils down to this, “Abiding in the Vine” but being missional challenges our traditional understanding of what it means to Abide. There is pain when we fail to abide and there is even pain when we abide well. However, if we choose not to abide in the vine intentionally […]
God’s Mission needs Mission Partners—People who are all-in and following Jesus wherever He goes even if the road He travels is difficult and hard to accept. Our scripture text for Sunday shares one of those hard teachings of Jesus and how many of His fair-weather disciples, on hearing this teaching, turned away and no longer […]
The word missional has been thrown around a lot in the last several years. It’s a word that conjures up a lot of different ideas for people. In fact, there are many misconceptions about what being missional is all about. This week we are going to delve into a few of the most common Missional […]
There has been a lot of talk in the last year about being “Woke” in a social and political sense. Don’t worry, we aren’t going to talk about that, but we are going to talk about a “Woke” of a different kind. The church needs to wake up to the fact that “we aren’t in […]
You’ve heard that old dilemma question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, right? Well, have you ever asked that same question about the church and mission? Which came first, the church or the mission? Dick Wiendenhef answers like this, “God doesn’t have a mission for His Church, God has a Church for His […]
Join us on Sunday at 9:30 or 11:00AM in person or online as we worship God and share our answers to prayer. We welcome Rev. Dr. Barbara Yandel to our pulpit as one of our Missionaries to the Muslim World. Dr. Yandel founded her ministry “Hope for the Nations” 20 years ago and has been […]
Pastor Mark shares his journey of understanding and engaging God’s mission in his life and in the World. From inviting friends to church, to sharing the Good News of Jesus’ with many along the way—including his missteps. We are all on mission with God if we are believers in Jesus, but we are all at […]
Re-Engage the Mission of God Do you know the story of Nehemiah? He was the cupbearer for the Persian King. He was also a Jewish man who had been part of the exiled Israelite nation. That’s exactly where he would have remained, had he not taken initiative. He responded to some terrible news from Jerusalem […]
This Labor Day Weekend we Praise God together because He has done great things for us!! Imagine standing on the edge of the Red Sea after the parted waters closed. Looking up the shore and down and realizing that not one of your people is lost, everyone is present and accounted for, not one has […]