This past Sunday we were at our last service in Cornwall at Faith Apostolic. The new pastor is now in place.

We will be going back to Calvary in Ottawa. It will be a few weeks before we are readjusted to the large church setting. We also have grown in numbers with B4, since our kids were in a large Sunday School setting.

The services in Cornwall were a bit different. I had each of my boys choose one message I had spoken in Cornwall in all the services we have had at Faith Apostolic and these would be the messages I would speak to close out our time there.

It was interesting to see which ones they choose, and to remember some of the responses and comments when I originally spoke the message.

In the AM service I spoke on reaching people for Christ in a message called “The Gutter.” This was the very first message I spoke at Faith.

In the PM service I spoke a message from the Baggage series. The message was about letting go of the baggage of the past.

It was interesting because both of these messages fit so well for Faith and the future.

Right now I have some things brewing that could be huge for the future. In many ways, very exciting.

Here is a short recap from a couple of weekends ago at Faith Apostolic. June 14 2009.

• AM Service - Dealt with the question - Why Don’t I Always Feel the Presence God?

• Maybe you have over hyped how to feel the presence
• Maybe your heart has grown hard
• Maybe you haven’t been obedient
• Maybe you have built a wall of sin
• Jesus has got grace and the power to transform your life, and He loves to reveal Himself to those who seek Him. 

•  PM Service - Dealt with the question - Why Didn’t God Answer My Prayer?

• Maybe you have a broken relationship. A relationship that is not where God would want it to be. Relationships matter to God.
• Maybe you do not believe God will.  Another words, low expectations.
• Maybe God has something better in store. His will and His way, are higher then ours.
• Need to pray to understand what the will of God is for the situation or need.

Tags: FaithApostolic, Cornwall, weekend service

Yesterday was different. Rather then being in Cornwall speaking in both the AM and PM service, we were in Ottawa at our home church, Calvary. The new pastor that was appointed in Cornwall was at Faith Apostolic and he was in Cornwall trying to secure some work for when they move at the end of June. So he was speaking in the service there.

In three weeks we will be transitioning out of our interim role at Faith Apostolic and back in Ottawa. I have already been discussing with Pastor Jeremy the next steps for my family and I.  He announced a couple of weeks ago to the church that we would be back on the team at Calvary at the end of the month. We have had some preliminary discussions on what that will consist of. I plan on posting more to this blog on how all that will unfold and maybe even try to use this blog as a way to mind dump and work through some different ideas etc.

I did notice that when I was sitting in church this Sunday, I looked around and noticed some faces that were not there.  I asked myself, if that was just this Sunday that they were missing?  I also saw some faces that I didn’t recognize, which is good thing, I thought is this their first time at Calvary and what is their experience like so far?

Here is this past weekend’s recap at Faith Apostolic.

In the AM service, I continued the “Unstoppable” series. This was the third message in the series. I spoke on how everyone needs to see themselves as a minister. Sometimes we can think we do not have the ability, talents, or calling to minister.  But everyone needs to be a minister, and are uniquely positioned to carry out their ministry. Programs do not equal ministry.  Sometimes we think if we fill the church schedule with programmable activities we are fulfilling our mission to lead people into being fully devoted followers of Christ. That is not the case.

God uses ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things for the kingdom.  God doesn’t call the prepared, rather God prepares the called on their journey. Using ordinary people is a specialty of God. I lot of times today churches are looking for the exceptional to perform certain roles, those with the “talent.”  However, Christ also uses just ordinary people, those that know who Jesus is, who believe in Him, and are willing to follow Him no matter what the personal cost is.  They are all in. They give their whole lives to Him. They become unstoppable.

This kingdom thing is serious, it is time to stop just playing it safe, it is time to be all in. If your serious, let’s do it.

In the PM service, I took all three messages in the series for “Unstoppable” and combined them into a summary message to recap the last three Sunday mornings.  It was a nice way to pull everything back together and close out the series. Brought things back to the forefront about what this series presented.

I ended the service with a song from Jon Foreman, “Your Love is Strong”

Here is the recap from a couple of weeks ago at Faith Apostolic Church.

We continued the series in the AM called “Unstoppable.” I talked about how we need to be a church that is focused and committed on leading people to be fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. We jumped into the Books of Acts (2:44), where we read about a powerful church, a small church with a large impact. The early church that we today say we want to be like, it was a church that was together. They believed scripture was important so they studied together. They believed in relationships, so they lived life together. They were also generous people.

They had unity. They were in agreement. They were together.

Instead of thinking of ourselves as members of a local church, we need to be partners together.  We need to bring what Jesus Christ has put inside of us to the table. You bring you. Others bring themselves. Everyone partnering together in agreement and the local church becomes unstoppable in the local community. Making a difference.

In the PM, I spoke on “Social Justice”.

I talked about a couple of steps to take

1. Cultivate Compassionate Awareness.  We need to go from hearing and reading about injustices around the world to action.

2. Prepare Our Mind for Action. The Bible declares the world’s need for salvation and justice. Preparing our minds for action means coming to grips that we were sent into a world as salt and light because the world is full of corruption and injustice.  Scripture speaks of the world into which Jesus sent us.  Job 24:2-4, 9-10; Psalm 37:14; Isaiah 3:14; Lamentations 5:11-13; Ezekiel 22:29; Joel 3:3; Amos 1:13.  So the last people that should be caught surprised that injustice is happening in the world are Christians.

Even Christ was born into a world where a ruler gave a order to commit injustice, something that if it was broadcast on CNN would be shocking to most people today. Matthew 2:16.

I will be posting the recap from this past weekend soon as well.  I have been recovering some major laptop failures last week, and am now just getting everything reinstalled.

Finally getting around to recapping this past Sunday…really should do these recaps on Sunday night, they would probably be better. This week has been pretty busy, 2nd week at the BMX track prepping for the opening this coming weekend.

We had a unfortunate situation this past Sunday, one of the elder’s that has been part of Faith Apostolic for many many years was in the hospital.  I was wondering what was going on when I did not see his car in the lot and his wife was inside when I went into the building.

I stopped by to visit Bro. Briggs in the hospital in the afternoon before the PM service. His blood pressure was way down and he had an irregular heartbeat.  He was feeling better when I saw him, but was very tired.  He is in his late eighties…needs prayer.  He told me he was checking his watch and was thinking it was almost time to head to church.

In the AM service, I started a new series called, “Unstoppable”.  I talked about 3 basic items that would make the vision of the church, any church for that matter, unstoppable.

• Being a church where everyone is welcome.
• Being a church where everyone is needed
• Being a church where everyone is changed.

In the PM Service, I started a different series for the next few weeks for the evening.  I talked on Social Justice.  It matters to God that justice is served. The great miracle and mystery of God is that he calls you and I to be part of what he is doing in history.  We are his hands and feet.  We are to demonstrate Christ’s love to all the world: to disciple the nations, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to heal the broken and even rescue the oppressed.

If we are going to sing, “All the children are precious in His sight,” we better mean that.

For those that are abused, beaten, kicked, neglected, told that they are not of value, not good enough, we share Christ’s saving love on the cross and the servant love of our hands.

Tags: Justice, Unstoppable, Social Justice, Jesus Christ,

Here is the recap from this past weekend at Faith Apostolic. 

Mother’s Day called for a special service for the mom’s, so we did a “Day of the Woman.” I spoke on a topic that would be earth changing. That being, we need to have homes filled with praying moms. If mom’s are praying things will move, families will be impacted, communities will be impacted.

During the message, I called all the children to the front and gave them some instructions that I was going to stop throughout the message and have them share something that they love about their mom.  Even with the instructions it took some arm twisting to get them to speak when I stopped.  But it was fun.

At the close of service, we passed out flowers to all the females present in the service, past moms, present moms, future moms, and any female even if they wouldn’t be a mom.  We were celebrating all daughter’s of Eve on this day.

In the evening service, I spoke on the simple fact that we have a promise that we cannot forget. Jesus Christ is coming back again.  This is something that needs to be part of our foundation of who we are as Christians.  I mentioned that the previous week I spoke on that it is all about him, it is all for him, it is all in him…..and he has promised that He is coming again. 

Tags: FaithApostolic, Day of the Woman, Mothers Day, Cornwall

This Sunday being Mother’s Day, my wife asked if I will be doing a messge for mom’s. Which I will be speaking in the AM. Hopefully, my Mom, Mom-In-Law, and Sister-In Law (she is a mom), will be out. My younger sister may be there as well.

In the PM we have a some ladies that do not attend the AM, I was thinking about doing the Mom’s Day as well, but I am planning something else. I am planning on doing a message on “Jesus’ Promise”

Here is the recap from Sunday @ Faith Apostolic.

• The morning service there was some time spent talking about the meeting from Wed 04292009.  The District Board appointed a new pastor for Faith Apostolic.  The new pastor will be moving to Cornwall at the end of the school year in June.  There were some really nice things said to me from the board members.
• My message was one that I used in both services.  I find that at FA, with the current attendance situation, one message seems to be more effective for both services. The message was important to help build the foundation of each person. 
• My message was about Jesus Christ; It’s All In Him, It’s All About Him, It’s All For Him.
• I first established who Jesus Christ is, all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him. I Tim 3:16
• Talked about early Christians in Rome, being fed to the lions in Colosseum, living under ground in the Catacombs. Through all the persecution, they communicated that they new who Jesus Christ was and continued to live out their faith as followers of Jesus Christ.
• Went over the early roots of Pentecostals; Topeka Kansas, Azusa Street, United Pentecostal Church, RE McAlister, Howard Goss, Andrew Urshan, Charles Parham, William J Seymour, Frank Bartleman.
• It is not about the building, it is about the builder, not about rules or regulation; it is about Jesus Christ. We need authentic faith in Jesus.
• Early Christians gave their lives for Jesus, they were burnt on stakes by Nero, feed to the lions, live under the city of Rome in tunnels, so in the busyness of life, we can’t forget Jesus.

Tags: JesusChrist, Azusa Street, United Pentecostal Church, Catacombs, Colosseum, Rome, RE McAlister, Howard Goss, Andrew Urshan, Charles Parham, William J Seymour, Frank Bartleman, Nero, Cornwall

This past Wednesday night, Faith Apostolic voted in a new pastor.  I do not know the individuals name, I was not present at the meeting.  I wasn’t privy to it prior to FA meeting the person.

I had spoken to my Pastor a couple of weeks prior when we were made aware there was some interest from this individual to put their name forward to the membership of FA.

This means that very shortly, the role of Calvary Church supporting FA as a quasi-daughter church will be ending.  FA will once again become a autonomous church again.  It is estimated by the end of June the transition will be completed.

In the meantime we will be continuing to speak in the services at FA on Sundays.  Once that is completed, we will be back at Calvary Church.

What are the next steps for my family and I.  Initially integrate ourselves back into Calvary Church.  I have already talked with Pastor Jeremy about somethings for the future…it will interesting to see those things develop over the next while.

I have already starting prepping myself to move in that direction.

Tags: FaithApostolic, Cornwall, vote, pastor

This past weekend’s Faith Apostolic recap is for the AM service only, as my family and I were in Ottawa at Calvary Church for the evening.  Kofi Kobia was down in Cornwall for the evening service.

My message was pretty simple. I asked the question after reading the parable of the Good Samaritan. Who is our neighbor?

The world has converged together.  The world is flat as Thomas Freidman has stated in his book.  What does this mean?

Simply, our neighbor doesn’t just mean the person living directly beside us on our local street.  So when we hear about social injustices, what is our response going to be?

Miss it?
Ignore it?
Recognize it, but still inaction?
Or act on it?
Do something, anything about it?

Do we really want to see people’s lives transformed?  Do we want to see the kingdom of God make a difference in the world?

If we do, what are we going to do about it?

Maybe we have to do things a bit differently in a flat world.

Tags: FaithApostolic, Thomas Freidman, flat world, Kingdom of God, Ottawa, Calvary Church, Kofi Kobia, Cornwall

Here is the recap from this past weekend.  The kids went to Grandma and Grandpa’s house for the weekend.  This was the first time my wife and I had spent the weekend away from the kids since B4 came into the family. 

We spent the weekend over in Massena, NY. 

On Sunday, I continued the series on Baggage.  I spoke on the topic of Emotional Baggage.  Many times we are told things throughout our lives that cause us to carry emotional baggage around, such as “your not good enough,” “your useless,” etc.  As a result we can try to impress people and be a performer.  We have to remember it is not about who we are, but who’s we are.  It is about who we know, Jesus Christ.  We need to lay down our emotional baggage, we can do that because who’s we are.  It is not by our power that we need to try and perform, it is all about Christ Spirit working in and through us.

In the second service I was going to speak this message again so that everyone could get to hear all the messages of the series, but I just felt the Spirit nudge me to go into a different direction.  There is some recent changes about to take place at FA, and I felt the Spirit tell me to preach a message that is true to myself.  So, I prayed about it, and I preached the message I have taught in a couple of instances before.  It was about getting into the community and reaching those that are not Christ followers.  About being missional. Being local missionaries. This might cause us to do church differently. To obey the verb, “go.”

Some changes that are coming to FA is that there will be a vote for a new pastor, April 29th, 7:00pm. Someone has put their name forward to the District Board and the local membership of FA will be voting soon if they accept this person as the new pastor. 

It is not me.

Tags: FaithApostolic, Cornwall, Baggage, Emotional Baggage, Massena, NY, missional, missionaries

This past weekend was the first time I have preached an Easter message. It was also the first time I had to prepare to serve communion as well.

The message I preached could be summed up in a few points

• What if the stone hadn’t rolled away on the third day, what would that mean?
• The stone did roll away on the third day and here is proof.

The stone was rolled away on the third day and Jesus Christ rose again, conquering death, not just so Jesus could exit, also, so that we could enter. Death is no longer a pit, but an entrance into everlasting life.

We had the opportunity to go to lunch with a new family that has been attending FA.  We were able to learn about their story….incredible history.  I also got to learn about architecture, pretty interesting stuff.

In the evening, I was surprised to have our Bishop in attendance.  I have a meeting this week with my Pastor…was to be on Tuesday, but got postponed to Thursday

This past Sunday at Faith Apostolic we continued the series called “Baggage.”

This week I decided to change it up a little at Faith Apostolic and take somewhat of a risk.  The risk was that those that are regular attendees of Faith Apostolic would miss the point of what I was doing. I decided that for both the AM and PM service I was going to speak the same message.

For those that are reading this and are not aware why that would be a risk, I’ll explain.  There are churches that have multiple services on Sunday and the same message is spoken in each service, but the reason they have multiple services is to handle the amount of people attending their church. However, at Faith Apostolic and other churches two services are held AM and PM and traditionally these services have different messages preached, taught etc.

I wanted to make a point that we need to break free some from traditions.  That traditions should not define what we do.  We need to make sure that we are not just doing “church” but being the “church.”

I felt I needed to make the slight change this week.  Felt it was the right thing to do.  So I did it. Honestly, I felt the second service was one of the best we have had since we have been going down to Cornwall.

The message this week fit with this change as well. I spoke on “Religious Baggage.”

There were two types of baggage I spoke on:

1. Pharisee Style Baggage - man made rules that go too far, where they become unreasonable and distracting.
2. Religious Baggage from other religions - when we come to Christ we can carry some baggage with us from previous religious teaching, that can hinder us experiencing everything Christ wants us to. 

To put this baggage down we need to return to two things…

1. Love for Christ
2. Love for Other People

Traditions or man made rules cannot replace those two things.  Sometimes we can have #1 but lose #2 or vice versa or both.

Tags: ReligiousBaggage, Pharisee, Baggage, Faith Apostolic

Posting from my Blackberry, so formatting is not the easiest.

We returned from our family trip to Cape Code on the weekend and stayed over in Massena, NY. We brought a couple of our friends children to church, as they were heading to Long Island. Pray for the Hamelin family, one of their sons is sick and needs a healing.

AM Service - There were a couple of guests out, that was great. I spoke in a different fomat for Faith Apostolic in the AM, I incorporated some two-way communication. I introduced the messge with a description of geocaching, detailing all the elements involved in geocaching, and mentioned some of the recent caches we did while in Cape Cod.

Then, I asked how could geocaching relate to our faith journey, what could each element be a type of. This was to spur some interaction, even the guests participated. Then based on the responses I finished my talk.

PM Service - This message was based on Paul & Mars Hill. How to engage culture by finding the spiritual questions that the community around you are asking. Once you understand those questions they are asking then you minister to them based on those questions.

God is already at work in people’s lives before we even get on the scene. That is why we need to understand the cultural environment we are in.

Here is the recap for this past weekend @ Faith Apostolic.  We finished going through the book of Philippians.  Last week we focused on Chapters 1 & 2.

AM Service

• Philippians Chapter 3
• There is joy in believing
• There is joy in putting your faith in Jesus Christ
• We need to make sure we are not substituting rules for a relationship with Jesus
• We need to focus our life on what is important
• We shouldn’t be complacent in our relationship with Jesus

PM Service

• Philippians Chapter 4
• There is joy in the Lord
• Sand firm not in your own strength, but in the Lords
• In the Lord you can have relational peace
• In Lord we can find inner peace that goes beyond what people can understand
• God never panics
• No matter what the circumstances are, we can have circumstantial peace
• Circumstances may not change, but your perspective of them can.

We will not be in Cornwall this upcoming weekend, as we will be in Cape Cod for vacation.

The following is a recap from last weekend’s service @ Faith Apostolic.

Started a message series on Joy.  Used the material from lifechurch.tv to start with.  Of course when you do this you have to make the message fit into your local context and follow the direction that Jesus would desire in your local church.

The message series is from Paul’s writings in the book of Philippians.

AM Service

• Paul wrote this book in chains in Rome while waiting for potential execution.
• A word that pretty much anyone would agree that is a theme in Philippians is JOY.
• In spite of his circumstances, Paul was joyful.
• Paul was clearing the way for the gospel message to be advanced
• We need to learn to say “So What” to circumstance.  So what to things that do not really matter.
• Happiness is based on happenings. Joy is based on Jesus Christ.

PM Service

• There is joy in serving.
• When you are focused on serving Jesus Christ and his people, there is always joy.
• You will not find joy being self-centered
• Mindset and attitude go a long way. You can chose to serve and be joyful or you can choose to be self-centered and have no joy.
• Joy is not up and down. Joy is consistent. Consistent presence of God.
• Do things out of humility, putting others before yourself.
• It is all about Jesus Christ, and we need to be His servant.
• Do not do anything about of selfish ambition

This past Sunday morning in service I pulled out my blackberry and read this tweet from Perry Noble. I had read it when we picked up our morning coffee before driving to Cornwall.

“Being willing to settle for less than God’s best is the first step in allowing satan to steal God’s vision and joy for our lives!” (Perry Noble via Twitter, Mar 1/09, 4:12AM)

It was one of those that stuck with me all the way to Cornwall and during the worship service.

A couple of weekends ago, I spoke on a topic that for me was a first. Why? Never was in a position that required me to speak about it. My Sr. Pastor a few months ago made a suggestion that I needed to speak on this topic at Faith Apostolic. The topic was finances.

AM Service

• Scriptures: Leviticus 27:30, Malachi 3:8-12, Haggai 1:6, Matthew 23:23
• Avg. Christian gives just 2% of their income to God.
• 3% of Christians tithe.
• Tithing is not giving, it is returning the tithe back to God what is already his.
• Question asked, are personal finances cursed because we are not honoring God’s principle?
• We bring our whole tithe to the “storehouse.” Your whole tithe goes to your church. The storehouse is a picture of the church.
• 10% is a baseline, we need to give everything, heart, mind, soul, talents, giftings, marriage, time, kids etc.

PM Service

• In this service since I had spoke on tithes in the morning, I felt that I wanted to bring something that would also help people take some of the pressure off their finances.
• We need to get out of dept. To get control of our finances.  We shouldn’t have our finances controlling us.
• I brought the Dave Ramsey “Snowball Effect”…finding $200 and applying that to first debt to pay off.  Once that is paid, taking the $200 + plus the last min payment and apply to the next min payment, increasing the snowball.  
• Put off buying the gadgets or items over $100, for at least a week…you might find that you don’t need it.
• Smaller items, wait 3 days to figure out if that “deal” is really needed…or just something that caught your eye in the store.
• Huge items over $1000, wait a month.
• Discipline. Discipline. Discipline.
• Love of money is dangerous.  We cannot serve money and God.  Let’s be a servant of Christ, not a servant of the lender.

Next post will be the recap from yesterday.

This coming weekend I am going to be speaking a couple of messages, or least right now it feels like two messages on a subject that I have not had to speak on ever.  Finances/Money. 

Is this something that I am chomping at the bit to stand up and talk about, not really. Is it a topic that is important, absolutely. 

This is Monday…..so I start to prepare.

Tags: FaithApostolic, money, finances, message

This past weekend was the end of the series, “Stories of the Journey.”  Well in actual fact it is not…..our stories continue every day.  Everyday we are writing something new into our story.

This weekend I tried something new for myself, and that was for each message I had an interview with someone from the church, where we talked about their story.  We had two chairs up at the front and we sat down and talked.  It went awesome.

AM Service

PM Service

As you can see over the series, the song Blessed Assurance by Third Day became a song that we would worship to every service.

Working on the next few series to speak.  This coming weekend, we are going to be in Ottawa.  Our new daughter is being dedicated in the morning service by our Sr. Pastor. Faith Apostolic is taking a road trip up to Ottawa for it. Sunday evening, Sr. Pastor is going to be in Cornwall.

Tags: FaithApostolic, Cornwall, Chris Tomlin, Israel Houghton, Third Day, Michael W Smith

Here is the recap of this past weekend at Faith Apostolic church.  We continued the “Stories of the Journey” series.

AM Service

• I spoke on “My Story,” see About page.
• Introduced the series again by taking about when we tell our story it makes our faith journey about real people living in real places, and during real times.
• Quote from Starving Jesus “Giving should equal relationships. We should be striving to build new friendships and new communities everyday. We should be looking constantly for ways to inject our newfound freedom into the lives of those lost and looking for Christ. Giving is not about the church, it is about the faith Christ has in us to give.” (Starving Jesus: Off the Pew, into the World , Gross & Mahon, Pg 164)
• Worship Playlist

• Third Day – Blessed Assurance
• Matt Redman – Blessed Be Your Name
• Chris Tomlin – How Great Thou Are
• Newsboys – In Christ Alone
• David Crowder Band – O Praise Him

PM Service

• Based this message on the Donald Miller talk at Mars Hill Bible Church, called “Story”.
• Adapted to the local context as usual.
• A good story has a hero or main character that despite flaws is one that you root for.
• A good story has a climatic scene, which in the Christian’s case is when we are living with Christ for eternity.
• Now we are writing our story, we are the hero of our story, and what we do determines how our story works it way to the climatic scene.
• Will our story become one that people will want to read, one that they will see that they too can have a journey to that climatic scene as well.
• Do we have to change course in our story to reach that climatic scene?
• We need to tell a great story with our life.
• Worship Playlist

• Newsboys – You Are My King (Amazing Love)
• Delirious – I Could Sing of Your Love Forever
• Michael W. Smith – There is None Like You
• Third Day – Blessed Assurance
• Delirious - Majesty

I am working on a couple of new things for Faith Apostolic.

1. Website - Since I am not a web programmer and there are n funds to outsource the creation of the website, I will be constructing the website on the Wordpress engine.  For starters I will just use Wordpress.com and then more it over to a self-host.

2. Funds - This is something that needs to be tackled, and I think I have a big initiative brewing.  I am taking my time with it, as I want to make sure I move in the right direction.  What does that mean? Praying about it to make sure this is the direction to go in.  There are some things that need to be done at Faith Apostolic and some funds are needed to accomplish.

Hopefully, in the next short while I will be able to announce these initiatives in more detail.

Tags: FaithApostolic, Funds, Website, Wordpress

This past Sunday was the first Sunday that are new daughter was with us at church. She absolutely loved it. When her mom got up to lead in worship she peaked through the seats and starting jumping up and down and smiling.  In the evening service she even tried to run up to the front and join her on the platform.

This week we started the new series called, “Stories of the Journey.”

AM Service

PM Service

After the morning service everyone from the church went down to the local Pizza Hut and had a big feast on Pizza, and Spaghetti. Good time to get to know the people in the local church in an informal setting.

Tags: FaithApostolic, church, PM Service, AM Service, Worship Playlist, Stories of the Journey

This past Sunday we were at Faith Apostolic for the morning service, as we had to be back in Rockland for the adoption transition.  It was our daughter’s first visit to our home see post here.

Here is the AM Service Recap:

• I spoke on the topic that people are searching for the answer to what happens when this life is over. When the last breath is taken, and the eyes are shut for the last time, what happens.  I used references to the search for the mythical fountain of youth, from Ponce De Leon to Alexander the Great.  How it was searched for to slow down the aging process to allow for perpetual youth.  I also used the reference to Cryogenics, with the faith hope that in the future, science can figure it out, how to bring them back to life.  I talked about how in the book “Tuck Everlasting” the Tuck family had found the water that allowed them to life forever and never age, and the character Winnie had to decide if she would drink from the water and have perpetual youth.  I then went into how, we have found the answer to what we need for eternal everlasting life.  That answer being Jesus Christ. The message of hope, the message truth, the message that changes lives.
• Scripture Text: John 3:16
• My wife had to stay in Rockland, just in case the foster family arrived early, or the weather would cause a delay, which the roads were covered in the morning, fine on the way though.  Due to that, our usual worship leader was not there, so I used media for the worship service.
• Worship Media Playlist

• Soon and Very Soon - Lynda Randle
• I’ll Fly Away - Jars of Clay
• Here I am to Worship – Tim Hughes
• It is Well With My Soul - Jars of Clay

• I Can Only Imagine – Mercy Me