Where Do We Go From Here?
by: Travis Arrant
Our Men’s Retreat was a huge success with at least 11 congregations (including ours) in attendance. The singing, teaching, food, and fellowship were awesome! Our gospel meeting with Cory Waddell was a huge success. Great preaching, fellowship, singing, and food were enjoyed by all. Congregations from all over our area were in attendance. We broke our Sunday AM and PM attendance records during the meeting.
Where do we go from here? How do we build on the success of these two wonderful events? Can we keep the momentum and enthusiasm going? What do we do?
Please understand our congregation is growing. We have enjoyed four baptisms in the last six weeks. We have numerous visitors at our worship services. Members are faithful in attendance. I personally feel we are just getting started.
Bible studies are being conducted by members of our congregation. Visitation is increasing reaching out to strangers in the community as well as those who are out of service. Prayers are being lifted up for the elders, deacons, song leaders, Bible class teachers, and members. Bibles are being studied more every day.
Our Bible correspondence courses are being given out every week as well as our books we offer for free. Visitors are being made to feel welcome and encouraged to come and grow with us. Our deacons- Steve Barnhill, Jake Maxwell, Brannon Smith, and Mike Williams- are four of the most sincere and hardest working deacons I have ever had the privilege to know.
Where do we go from here? Let us keep up the good works we are doing as noted above. Let us keep the prayers going forth and our Bibles being studied. Let us keep the outreach to the community moving forward. Let us dream big and work hard to achieve these goals for the Lord and His kingdom.
“For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe” (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
Stay true to the Word,
Brother Travis
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