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Touching North Korea

by Pastor Curt on January 10, 2012
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I meant to do this post weeks ago. The holidays and a cruddy cold took care of that notion. Still, anybody who reads a newspaper or watches the news knows that North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Il slipped into eternity in December. His son, Kim Jong-Un has succeeded him as the new ruler of one of [...]

Sending Love Overseas

by Carissa VanDalen on December 20, 2011
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I regret to admit that my generation has really lost the art of writing a creative and personal letter. My peers and I remember learning to write letters and having pen pals, but we also remember when email was invented (for me, during middle school). Though we have adopted new forms of communication that are [...]

Making Much of Missions at Advent

by Pastor Curt on December 13, 2011
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I find myself often praying portions of Philippians 2:5-11 with folks during this Christmas season. Where would we be if the Son of God had not counted equality with God a thing to be grasped and had abhorred the virgin’s womb? Lost – eternally, horribly, hellishly lost. But the news is good! He humbled himself, [...]

Passion 2012

by Stephanie Rex on November 29, 2011
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Passion 2012 Two words. Life changing. OK, I know what you may be thinking. Passion is just another conference. You go get on a spiritual high and come home and crash two weeks later. I know this because that is what I was thinking the first time I was asked to go. I want to [...]

Japan Disaster Relief Update

by Pastor Curt on November 8, 2011
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Back on Good Friday of this year, in a joint communion service with our friends at Faith Baptist Church, we collected an offering for the relief work in Japan following the devastating tsunami that ravaged the northern part of that country in March. We put in some significant due diligence to determine what agency or [...]

Pray for the Digo

by Pastor Curt on September 20, 2011
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We are determined. We will seek God for spiritual breakthroughs in our adopted people group, the Digo. You may not be able to attend a prayer meeting, but you can pray on your own. For help in knowing what and how to pray I give you this agenda from last night’s concert of prayer: Digo [...]

Digo Team Report on Audio

by Pastor Curt on September 1, 2011
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I am pleased to report that our first-rate tech team on Sunday recorded our Digo team report of our recent trip to Kenya during the 9:30 hour. If you didn’t get a chance to hear the report, you can listen to the audio here. Please continue to pray with us for God’s wisdom and direction [...]

Beautiful Feet

by Pastor Curt on August 17, 2011
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These don’t look so hot to me today. But they dazzled with beauty on Friday, August 5, in the village of Mrima, Kenya. I mean with an Isaiah 52:7 kind of beauty. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, [...]

No Sermon Upload Today

by Pastor Curt on August 14, 2011
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Due to security reasons attached to the sensitive nature of the material and locations presented by our guest speaker today, there will be no sermon upload for August 14, 2011. Lord willing, we will post the next sermon in the series The Graces of Gospel-Shaped Community, as I resume the series next Sunday, August 21, [...]

It Takes A Village…

by Kelly Simpson on August 1, 2011
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The old adage goes, “It takes a village to raise a child.” And while I affirm the truth of that statement… that’s not what we’ll be discussing here! I’ve been thinking more about the fact that it takes a village of committed, motivated, engaged people to get four of our own to a small, unassuming [...]