He Is Faithful!
Our church family held their annual R&R Celebration (Review & Renew) for 2009 last Friday night. As we looked over the past year it was exciting to see all that God did during it. We were blessed to see God’s hand throughout the year. We are also excited over all that we believe He is going to do in 2010. We are praying for a great year not only for Life House but for the kingdom. We are “adopting” four other church plants so that we might encourage them and petition the Father to help them reach souls on their respective fields. We are wanting to teach our church family that as a new church plant we still need to look beyond our own neighborhood, city and state and reach out to others with the gospel. We are not the only church that is trying to reach the world and together (as we link arms and hearts) we will see souls saved here in Jerusalem (our local mission field), Judea (our states – Arkansas/Texas) Samaria (the United States) and to the “ends of the earth” – (the world – foreign missions). We have chosen to adopt:
Local Mission Field – Texarkana, AR /College Hill Community/ Texarkana, TX
State Mission Fields: Stuttgart Harvest Church, Stuttgart, AR – (AR) and Keystone Community Outreach Church, Ft. Worth, TX (TX)
National: DeSoto Community Church, DeSoto, Kansas
International: The Mapuche People Group – found in Chile.
Each of these ministries are important in God’s kingdom work. Life House Family is blessed to be able to partner with them and hopefully encourage and support them in many ways in the next year. God has been soooooo good to us and faithful to us and we are praying He will use our church family to bless others who are just like us.
Wherever you are…whatever part of the kingdom you are serving in – don’t lose hope or heart – God is with you and will prosper your work in the kingdom. Be faithful, pray and don’t ever give up! There are souls to be saved, lives to see changed, people to clothe, people to feed, people to love, children and youth to touch and train and we MUST keep working till He comes again. It’s a blessing to serve Him and we praise Him for being faithful in 2009 and know He is always faithful and will be in 2010. Can’t wait to see what He is going to accomplish in 2010 with Life House and many other churches who refuse to become “religious country clubs” but want to be His hands and His feet in the world today. It’s time to get up, get out and become the salt and light He has called us to be. Life House Church has renewed her vision for 2010 and is purposing in her heart to reach more souls and touch more lives than ever before. Will you join us? It’s time – He is faithful – are we? Serve Him in 2010!!
January 9th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
James, I especially like the comment about religious country clubs. I have been praying lately about all the empty church buildings that are controlled by one of the members that maybe used to go there but has not been there for years. The empty building just sits there and no one can use it because maybe one family thinks it is a holy thing and others can’t have it. This seems to me like people who hang on the the past and will not release these buildings for God’s purpose. They too most likely had a country club there and when all the members died out no one was allowed to take the building and use it for good. If you agree with this, please pray for us, because we have 4 such buildings within 5 miles of us and we are forced because of finances to meet in someone’s living room. There has to be a way to get through to these people and help them to see that we are not the enemy and that building they are protecting is not a “Holy” thing. It is the people who attend, the church of the Living God. Thank you for all that you do for the Lord, James. I love you and look forward to hearing from you on theis matter.
Brenda Ross
January 11th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
This is awesome! Keep up the great work!