Minister Reporting - 25 years

Paul Leavens  Minister   Reporting
    Here are the facts of the last 25 years according to the church records:
    Baptisms - 180
    Membership Transfers - 151
    Weddings - 74
    Funerals - 102
    Church members moved away - 105
    There is no record of the people who attended but never became members.
    Yes Divine Intervention.
     A spiritual hospital in the middle of a worldly desert.
    I want to thank all the people whose faith and commitment helped make all this possible.      God Bless you and I love you. Your an inspiration to me.

Serve

Serve Others
    At Target,  I watched a mother become very exasperated with her five-year-old son. The boy kept whining and complaining until his mother lost patience with him. She seized him by the shoulders, shook him, and snarled, "Look, I brought you here!  Now you have a good time! Enjoy it!”
    The world tries so hard to be happy. But most of the things it offers drugs, alcohol, sexual adventures, expensive entertainment, financial reward don't work for long. Self-indulgence always produces emptiness, dissatisfaction, restlessness, and what the Bible calls "a continual lust for more" (Ephesians 4:19).

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A Friend

We Have a Friend.
    Lord," Martha said to Jesus, "if you had been here, my brother would not have died" (John 11:21). Martha implied that Jesus had betrayed the family by not coming immediately when he heard that Lazarus was sick. Now it was too late.
    Martha could not have known that Jesus permitted Lazarus to die in order to dramatically prove God's power to raise the dead. But this account illustrates three truths that can help us when death strikes close to home.
    (1) Death is inevitable,  even for the friends of Jesus.

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