Pastor's Blog

“As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.” I Peter 4:10

Today’s Bible reading – April 17 2 Samuel 1-2; Luke 14:1-24

Tuesday, April 18 – 2 Samuel 3-5; Luke 14:25-35
Wednesday, April 19 – 2 Samuel 6-8; Luke 15:1-10
Thursday, April 20 – 2 Samuel 9-11; Luke 15:11-32
Friday, April 21 – 2 Samuel 12-13; Luke 16
Saturday, April 22 – 2 Samuel 14-15; Luke 17:1-19
Sunday, April 23 – 2 Samuel 16-18; Luke 17:20-37

Well, Easter weekend 2017 was great!  We had two professions of faith which is obviously the highlight!  The adult choir, under the direction of Jeanette Bates, did an outstanding job of presenting the Gospel through song in our third morning worship service yesterday morning.  Our bus workers and Sunday School teachers received an “A” for their efforts on Saturday.  Ditto for Aaron Chinners and Deidra Taylor as they respectively led children’s church and preschool church on Saturday.  Some of our deacons and their wives did a great job of coming on Saturday morning to ready the auditorium for Sunday’s services.  Jeff Holifield and Rita Broome led our Spanish service at 9:30AM yesterday morning and did their usual great job.  Randall Broome, the praise team, the special singers, the instrumentalists and the praise band all did wonderful with our musical worship.  We are blessed!

So how many different folks were involved in our services Saturday/Sunday?  Somewhere between eight hundred and nine hundred wold be my best guesstimation.  We had around six hundred and fifty to seven hundred different folks on the campus yesterday morning.   We are very grateful to God for His giving the increase!  Thank you Friendship family for being faithful!

My Easter Sunday afternoon consisted of a really long nap which is way out of character for me.  It was good!  Lisa did not get that luxury as she was cooking and preparing to host our family for supper at 5:00PM.  She did a superb job.  Obviously, Ann, Deidra and Daphne cooked some things as well but Lisa is an awesome hostess.  Good looking one too!  I am thankful!

I will update those on our prayer list in tomorrow’s entry.  We are “hospital free” right now and that is a good thing.

I pray that you will have a great Monday with Jesus!