Blessings to all of my brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus;


     Ok, so it hasn't quite been 6 months since my last post here.  Hopefully you have been reading my weekly messages on our website and are still familiar with some of the things I have been up to. I have been very busy over the last months, but I decided tonight that it's time to start writing my blogs again as well and rededicate them to use in spreading the Great News.


     The church I am a member of here received a new pastor last July and I have been working hard with him ever since.  This is his first appointment, but his father is also a Methodist pastor with a church in Salina Ks. so he has a lot of wonderful ideas for improvement and is trying to implement as many of them as possible in order to serve as many as we can in as many ways as we can.  He has turned the English part of our worship music over to me (we are a bi-lingual congregation) which I love as I know how music can reach so many emotionally and I'm blessed in the fact that like me he is a fan of modern Christian rock, so it's a labor of love.  I also put together the power points to show during each service.  I started out by just getting free slides online and inserting the text, but have now graduated to making my own on Microsoft Paint.  Now each slide has our church name at the top,  pictures on the left and our theme for the week on the bottom.  Right now we are taking part in the rethink church program (www.rethinkchurch.org) so that will be the theme throughout this month.  Also I did the planning and organizing for our annual Family Fun Festival which takes place each Friday evening during September.  It really is a great way to let the community know about your church.  Last years event saw 3 new families come into our congregation as a direct result and 4 children of one of therm baptized.  I am also starting a Methodist men's group which will meet on the 3rd Saturday of each month and working to put together both adult and kids Sunday school classes.  Plus I am researching different things we can do to raise funds so that we can pay for all of these new things.  And if it sounds like I am doing it all trust me, Pastor Walter has several others working just as hard as I including my wife Beautiful Becky.  He eve talked my son Just Call Me Joe into coming to church and running the new sound system when we get it and he had quit attending church after some bad experiences at our last church.  Praise God my whole family is now back worshiping Him where we belong.


     I have been hard at work on our ministry website and Facebook.  We now have 184 members in our Facebook Bible study group.  This week made lesson 19 in a series I have planned to go for 43 weeks unless I need to add something in the end.  Right now we are looking into prophesy using the book of Daniel.  I have also been working just as hard to get up new materials on the website as well as redoing all of the old pages to match our current format.  It's a lot of work, but we just won our first award for it.  Admittedly it's only second place not first, but to me it still means that we are reaching people with God's Gospel and that's what it's all about.


     Well, I do have many more things to talk about but I think that this is enough for now.  I promise that my next post will be no more than a week away.


     In parting I would like to offer this prayer:


     Dear Heavenly Father, we ask you to bless all of us here in our church without walls as we seek to know You better and spread Your word.  We ask that you watch over, protect and guide us so that by imulating You we can help to bring even one person even one step closer to accepting You and the eternal salvation you offer through Your precious son Jesus the Christ, Amen


God bless each of you.
Pastor Tom