Reflections on a Powerful Weekend

This weekend a number of people will circulate through the First Family (Baptist) Church @ Kirksville, MO. On Saturday more than a dozen will sacrifice their morning and serve the Lord by helping with Angel Food Ministries.

Others will be coming by and preparing their classrooms for a week of "Vacation Bible School a la Boomerang Express." This is a vital time in the life of our Kingdom work each year where were reach children with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. On Sunday morning we will fill up the worship center and praise the Lord who is so very faithful. Our sermon subject in the 10:45 service will be Extreme Makeover: A Strong Family - A Godly Heritage based on Acts 18:1-3.

Sunday Evening our youth group will gather for some deep discipleship and fellowship at 6 p.m. while the adults & children will grow deeper and wiser looking at another important segment in the life of Job - The Perfect Storm. This Bible study will help people of all ages be prepared for the "storms of life" that come to each of us and will enable to them to be porepared to be found faithful.

Our youth should be recovered from all the exciting activities of Youth Camp @ Grand Oaks in Chillicothe. Only 2.5 days and yet many were stirred by the Holy Spirit to walk morepassionately with their Savior. In many ways this camp does more to bond our youth group together than the other types of camps that last an entire week.

So as we finish July with Vacation Bible School each evening I get very excited about the potential of the Family at First Baptist reaching out with the Love of Christ Jesus to our community and around our world. And as we peek into August with the return of Truman students and I anticipate a mission field that changes faces every semester, it think of Gospel seeds being scattered to the wind. Seeds that will cause students to return to Kirksville for reuniones and much more and remember the work that God did in their lives through us. All of this activity makes for a very tired fellowship - but its a good kind of tired. And so we gather to become re-energized by His diving presence in our fellowship and worship. How could anyone stand to miss that??