I'm totally ready! On Sunday I talked about how Mary and Joseph experienced a new beginning after being in exile in Egypt for several years. I'm so ready for a new beginning. In a few days it will be New Years. I've always liked New Years, not so much for the silly hats and the noisemakers (although those can be fun) but for the sense of new beginning. To me there is just something hopeful and optimistic about New Year's Day.
This weekend we will begin the new year with a new message series entitled “New Beginning.” Covid has been such a strange time. While we have done some new initiatives over the past two years (such as Mastering Motherhood) to a great extent it has felt like we have been on pause. But it's time. Time to break out of this perpetual holding pattern. Time to re-engage in the full work of Christ. Time for new beginning.
In this new series we will introduce our “renewed” mission statement and talk about some of the initiatives that we will be working on over the next two to three years. This is going to be a very important and very exciting series, so you won't want to miss a single week. I would love for you to join us in person if you are able. But if not, please do tune in for the livestream. You may know that the service is on every hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays on our livestream page and then is available on-demand on the front page of our Rock Church website for the rest of the week.
I've been accused of being a perpetual optimist. But I just can't help it. I really believe that God is for us. And if He is for us, who can be against us. I believe God carries us through our hard times to a better day. And as good as God has been in the past, I believe the best is yet to come. So even though it would appear that Covid is still a force to be reckoned with, I believe God is at work in new and exciting ways and he is calling us to do the same.
I'm ready! I'm ready to see our church enter a new season of ministry. I'm ready for God to work in us, and through us, in new and exciting ways. Even in the midst of all of the challenges we are facing, I am ready to move forward into the future that God has for us. So I hope you will be with us, in person or online, as we launch this new series on Sunday “New Beginning.”
Love you all,
Pastor Steve