Election Day

Well the day has finally come to vote for who we want as President as well as many other issues.  One of the most exciting things is that all of those commercials will be over today!!!  That's a real blessing.

What's amazing to me is that I heard that nearly 2 billion dollars has been spent on this election between the two main candidates.  All that money for a $400,000 a year job. :/

We spend so much time and money working for these elections, and they are important, yet our trust should never be in people but in the Almighty God we serve.  The only one who can really make the difference we want is Jesus Christ when he returns to Jerusalem and sits on the throne of His father David.  That Kingdom will have no end!!!  (Luke 1:31-33)

So as we pray over this election let's also make sure we pray that Jesus returns soon and takes away the curse from this earth and let's righteousness cover the earth as the waters cover the sea!!!  (Isaiah 11:9)

God bless!

Alan Cain

Rings Class for building your marriage!

We invite you to join us for the seminar "Rings" which is all about building up our marriages. This one day FREE seminar will be taught by the Marriage Resource Center here in Springfield Ohio.

The seminar will be March 31st from 8:45am to 5:00pm. This seminar is free and will include lunch and snacks.

Below is information about the course...(you can also go to http://www.marriageresourcecenter.org/content.cfm?id=2106)

Introduction The elements of a healthy marriage and its significance to society

Committing The foundation of a marriage, evidenced in dedication and sense of "us"

Connecting The bonding that happens with physical closeness, emotional openness and relational safety

Cooperating How couples can work together in light differences in family tree, brain structure, gender and personality

Confronting How to communicate needs for behavior change in a healthy, productive manner

Confiding Living in radical honesty in order to remain transparent, forgiving and without unexpressed regrets

Spiritual Warfare

Hello everyone! I pray you are living in the power of the Most High!

We are in the beginning of a series on spiritual warfare, as we finish the book of Ephesians. I pray that you will come and let the Word train you in how to battle the issues we face by using spiritual weapons. This would be a great time to invite family and friends.

I see spiritual warfare every where I look. The world is in a violent way. Last night I learned on the news that 73 people died in a soccer riot after an unexpected win by one of the teams playing. What?!!! 73!!! Really!? Over soccer!? Come on! What a sad loss of life.

As believers we need to have our armor on and our skills honed to battle for righteousness...for life and hope.

Come join us this Sunday (communion Sunday) and get some spiritual training in warfare.

See you.

Pastor Alan

Two Days Away...

We are two days away from our opening day at the new Church! It's coming quick...a little too quick at times. I'm so excited though I can barely contain it.

It's been quite a week though. Full of excitement and sadness. We've been working feverishly on getting everything ready and we've also suffered loss as a body of Christ as Pat Looney fell asleep in death last night at OSU Hospital. It's been a roller coast ride this week to say the least.

Yet, that's life...that's ministry! We face the good and the bad through the power of the Holy Spirit. Without the help of God we can do nothing...nothing that will have lasting significance.

So Father, as I think about Thanksgiving, I thank You for your grace that lifts us through the heavy times and mounts wings on us when we sail in the good times.

God bless, see you soon...

Alan

Last service

Wow! What a great day! This was, I think, a cathartic day. A day where we had the chance to share some emotions, remember the importance this building holds in our lives and the excitement of the new adventure God has prepared for us...It certainly is all of His work and blessing that has made the new building possible

We had an incredibly full house. I’m not sure there was much of an empty seat anywhere. In fact we had extra chairs set up and filled and some in the foyer. Some are guessing around 180! God is good. It was good to have some of our North Hills friends come over for our last Sunday.

I can't image all of what God is going to do for His Kingdom through this new facility. He has used the people through the old building to bring many to Christ and he will continue to do that here. (I'm sitting in my new office...overwhelmed at God goodness.)

Have a great evening and I'll keep you up to date on work times to move the remaining stuff over from the old to the new Church. Keep next Sunday in your prayers!!!

We're getting close...

November 20th will be our FIRST SERVICE and we're excited!

Yet, I would ask your prayers for the Lawrenceville congregation tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the last service they hold in the old building. Some have attended there over 70 years I'd guess. For many it's the only building they've every went to Church in on a regular basis. Many, many memories there.

It's going to be a pretty emotional day. Both sadness and also excitement as we get ready for our new building and potential new ministry opportunities through it.

Anyway, tomorrow is just going to be tough...

Thanks for your prayers.

I also want to say this about our congregation...

Wow, what a group we have!!! There were a bunch of folks here today, some almost all day!!!

We got decorating done, a light put on our first service sign, tables set up, storage cabinets put together, stuff moved over from the old to new Church, shelves set up, cooler worked on, sidewalks power washed, stone power washed, windows washed on the outside...and so on!

YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!!!

May God fully bless you for all of your efforts for His Kingdom work.

See you in the morning.

Alan

A Better Tomorrow...

I read a simple verse today..."Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth".  A very simple but profound statement by Jesus.  The world now is taken by the strong, the cruel, the deceitful; but that is because we live in the world system under the control of the enemy.

Yet, a day will come, and quickly I believe, where Christ shall return to rule and reign on the earth.  It is then that the simple statement shared earlier will come to pass..."Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth".

So we wait.  So we work, until that great day arrives.

His best blessings.

--
Alan Cain

"Helping a Jewish Carpenter Build His Kingdom"