Celebration!

Every time there is a fifth Sunday we clear off a spot and celebrate what God is doing with HBF and our opportunity to join Christ in the mission of God. This past Sunday was an exceptionally good celebration!

We had a ministry celebration! Our theme for Sunday was "Reaching Jerusalem". It is my belief that the scripture teaches we are to accomplish the mission strategically (Matthew 28:19-20); simultaneously (Acts 1:8) and supernaturally (Philippians 2:14). These verses tell us what to do, where to do it and how we are to do it.

After opening up the sermon with these principles I preached from 2 Samuel 5:6-10 on David taking Jerusalem from the Jebusites. To conclude the sermon a team from HBF put on a dramatic skit that portrayed the redemptive power of Christ over the plague of sin and death. God was all over it! Immediately following the service we all proceeded to join our children under the big top erected on the property behind the building where over 25 ministries were represented with displays and representatives.

While the children played on the moonwalk the ministry leaders introduced our new members and guests to the many ministry opportunities God has blessed HBF with to accomplish the mission of God in our Jerusalem. It was a blast! The food, fellowship and focus was absolutely beautiful! I can not express how excellent it was to see HBF focused on the Word and work of God. It was one of those things you just had to be there to experience.

I want to throw out some thanks to our Lord for the sweet spirit of His people and the wonderful weather. The ministry workers were absolutely awesome! The amount of work it took by everyone to pull this off was monumental! God blessed as everyone had excellent quality displays which represented the quality of ministry God has blessed our congregation with.

Randy, Jim & the ministry coordination team did an excellent job off coordination and pulling the details together the final two weeks before the event while I travelled for both ministry appointments and our family vacation. I especially want to thank Trish Hunter for suggesting this in passing a couple months ago.

It is my prayer that the Lord continues to keep us focused on the main things so we can simultaneously be used of God to impact our Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth.