In the beginning of each year we tend to look back at the past year and wonder why we didn’t accomplish more. This is true of the church as well. Why didn’t we do more missions, give more, do more, grow more? The answer could be that we didn’t work hard enough or we were distracted by less important things. The answer is probably both.
LifePoint did a lot of great things in 2009. Our contributions to each new Habitat home, our drive for The Caring Place and Blythe Bower kids. We had a huge and uncomfortably hot Servolution event where we touched a lot of peoples lives with the love of God. We did it all for no other purpose than to serve Christ and love His creation. I couldn’t be more proud. I am excited at what God will do through us in 2010.
Those were the high points and most the time thats all most churches will reveal. The messy stuff doesn’t generally bring new people through your doors so we tend to skip it. But God is using the tough times just as much as the good times to make us all that He wants us to be. We’ve lost people we care about, struggled with our not so better halves, and fallen way short according to many church experts. And through it all I know that God is still madly in love with us and has big plans.
So you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have LifePoint. A church in an unashamed pursuit to love God as much as He loves us. I think that’s something to work towards. While we work towards that here somethings that are happening at LifePoint.
Where did the music go
In case you don’t already know, we no longer have a worship leader. To close out the year I led the music and while I am just good enough to fake it I know it’s not what God has called me to do. So I won’t be doing it anymore. I have made a new years resolution to not live outside the provision of God and that includes things pertaining to LifePoint. When God sends us a worship leader we will have the music He has prepared for us. Until then we will have the messages that God has placed in my heart and each other. I can’t explain how excited and at peace I am about this.
Children of the Theater
This is a year of radical change for our children. We will be producing and amazing environment for our children to discover and explore God. This will take money and labor from all of us but our children are more than worth it. They have been entrusted by God to us and we are going to do it big.
Coming Series: The Dark Passenger
On January 17th we will be starting a brand new series called, The Dark Passenger. Check out the video below for an idea of the what the series is about.
Time for the Main Event
Every event we do is important and that is why we are excited that Diette Ward will be joining our volunteer staff as our new Event Coordinator. This means we can do even more than we did last year and it will actually be organized in advance. I know, a novel idea.
2010 is going to be a lot of fun and I expect for some a difficult time. But through it all this will always be true…Jesus is Lord and we will follow Him.
God bless and see you at service.
Pastor James
