Worship Services

During the evening worship they showed the "Jesus Video".   There was standing room only in the church.  There was about twenty of us standing outside looking through the front door and windows of the church.  Several folks made rededications and professions.  Pastor Brian preached on Three Ways to Build a Healthy Church and Johnny did an amazing job singing "How Great Thou Art".  Early in the week I shared how the church met the first morning to pray over two young men in a motorcycle wreck, Freddy and Ronny.  They went out door to door collecting money for their hospital bills.  Well one week after the accident Ronny showed up at church and wanted to share his testimony of how God saved his life that day and how grateful he was to his church family for being there for him. He especially thanked Pastor Pedro for saving his life.  With a sermon on building a healthy church after hearing Ronny's testimony.  Pastor Brian hared in the second way was to love one another and reach out to your community.  This was evident this week as the community reached out to help their brothers, Freddy and Ronny.  The first way to a healthy church was to evangelise and share the good news.  What a perfect example this week of going out to their neighbors to see if they know Jesus. The third way of a healthy church is to do the work of missions.  You do not have to go to another state or country to do missions.  Pastor Pedro went down the road about fifteen minutes and started this new church in a town called Las Delicias.    You may say why a church fifteen minutes down the road.  Well, most of the folks here have to walk to church so when they only have to walk five minutes verses fifteen to twenty minutes it helps to start a church down the road.  Also, most of these homes do not have windows or doors.  Many of the reasons not excuses mind you they do not go to church they cannot leave their home unattended.  One lady shared I may not have much but it is all I have.  So to have a church close to her home will help her go to church where before she could not go because of the distance.  Thank you Pastor Brian for giving this church body words of encouragement on how they do have a healthy church and we saw proof this week on how hard these folks work for the Lord and His Kingdom.  Pastor Pedro hopes to have a pastor in place by January of 2013.  Pray for this and the new brothers and sisters in Christ as they disciple them into God's fold.

"Jesus replied, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hand on these two commandments."

Matthew 22:37-40