Personal Reflection

I am a Minister who encourages people to look to their present day and their future days as they set their heart to seek after God. I am convinced that God does not call us to live in our yesterdays of life although He has used those days to teach us His presence and He has revealed His daily activity in our lives through those days. But we do have the wonderful opportunity to look back in retrospect and identify and remember many of the blessings that God has provided for us along the way. I am eternally grateful and thankful for all of the Provision that God has shared with me through my journey of life on planet Earth.

 

This past Saturday was one of those times of reflection as well as celebration. I was given the wonderful opportunity to lead the New Worship Center congregation in the dedication of our church building. The first meeting of this ministry effort was on 9-11-09 and we have witnessed God provide many blessings as well as many miraculous provisions during that span of time. Time will not allow me to share all of those testimonies but it is sufficient to say "To God be the glory for the great things He has done." Our brief history has included a short time in an elementary school in Radcliff, Kentucky as well as the rental of a small office building in the same city. The Lord opened a door for us to purchase a building in the Spring of 2011. This building required much re-modeling as well as re-construction (it had never served as a church). But through the hard work of many volunteers and contractors we were able to have our first service on Christmas Day, 2011 in our partially completed building. We waited for a period of time before we finished our project as we gathered more funds to complete what we had started. We began the final stages of the project in the Spring of this year and saw the completion of that phase in the past few weeks. We celebrated our "official" dedication on June 1st.

 

I felt led to challenge the congregation that the "house" belongs to God (Psalms 127) and not to us. The people of God are called to stay focused on the true purpose of the true work of Christ. We are to share the Good News of the Gospel with a fallen and hurting world who need to understand that Christ stands ready to forgive our sins and minister to our lives. I pray daily that the New River Worship Center congregation will stay focused on our original call to be a "refuge" for the hurting of our community. I also pray that each local community of believers will stay focused on their call to their community. Each of us are called to "let our light shine" in the midst of this dark and sinful world.