Tonight, we had our Ministry Leadership Team meeting. As we began the meeting we talked about mission and vision. What is our mission as a church. We have adopted this mission statement: It is our mission at Preston Wesleyan Church to advance the Kingdom of God by bringing unsaved people to Christ, to train believers [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Two Nights in a Row!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kingdom, Ministry Leadership Team, missional on June 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mosaic Praise!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Mosaic, Wholehearted on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some of you know that Wednesday nights at Preston is devoted to student ministries. We have been praying for many years that God would bless our church with students. Be careful what you pray for, because God will answer. We had 31 students show up (or call for rides) for Mosaic Student Ministries. Along with [...]
Charlie Hall on Leading Worship
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged worship on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Charlie Hall leads worship for the Passion Conferences. He has a great article on leading worship at www.worshiptogether.com. In order to get to the article you have to subscribe, but I’ll share the parts that really meant something to me. Here’s the link for the whole article, but you’ll need to register as a worshiptogether [...]
Positive and Encouraging
Posted in Blogging on June 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
When we moved to Martinsville, we were introduced to the national Christian music radio network KLOVE Radio. There tagline is positive and encouraging. They are a breath of fresh air when it comes to listening to the radio. We also listen to a regional radio network, Spirit-FM. Both networks do a great job of lifting [...]
Sunday Night Thoughts
Posted in Sunday Thoughts on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This will be short tonight. It’s been a long week and we had a long weekend. There were many preparations for graduation and now it’s all over. We had a good service both this morning and this evening. This morning we took a look at the story of Moses. We are looking at some of [...]
Worship Boxscore – June 11
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Worship Recap on June 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Call to Worship – Psalm 146:1-2InvocationSong of Worship – Nothing But the BloodApostle’s CreedSongs of Worship – Above All; O, How He Loves You and Me; O, the Blood of JesusPrayerOfferingSong of Worship – When I See the BloodWorship Through God’s WordSong of Preparation – Come, Share the LordWorship at the Lord’s TableBenediction
Moses and the Great Escape
Posted in Adventures in the Old Testament, Communion, Moses on June 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today we continue on our journey in the Old Testament. We are looking at the famous and infamous and discovering what we can learn from their lives. As you can tell already, we won’t be taking the stories in order – depending on the particular emphasis of that Sunday, we will look at different stories. [...]
2nd Sunday after Pentecost — Ordinary Time
Posted in Lectionary, tagged Ordinary Time on June 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I Kings 17:8-24; Psalm 146; Galatians 1:11-24; Luke 7:11-17 This week’s readings bring us two accounts of children being raised from the dead. I King records the prophet Elijah raising the widow’s son. This happens after Elijah requests food and water from the widows. This is during a severe drought brought on by King Ahab’s [...]
Graduation Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family on June 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today our oldest daughter graduated from high school. This was a big step for her and we are proud of her. Shis is a wonderful, young Christian lady and is persuing God’s call on her life with all of her heart. I can’t believe she is graduating. Eighteen years go by so fast. God bless [...]
Being Missional
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged missional on June 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I discovered this quote this morning. It’s part of a much larger post by Jamie Arpin-Ricci. …we recognize the image of God reflected in all people, we should be drawn to know them, attracted to that which we see in them. We pursue them, not as something to be conquered, but as lives to be [...]

