Hello Everyone!
I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
As I look back over this past year I am so amazed at the faithfulness of God! It is so good to know that He is always right there to bring things to pass and to make things happen!
The church building project is still moving forward as we’re looking to obtain our construction drawings and get them out for bid. The construction of the building should start around April of 2010. We know God will supply all of our needs!
This Christmas is going to be fun as our grandchildren are getting older and their excitement is great. Of course Kelly and Jackie have a lot of excitement too! Sarah and Isaac won't be able to come home this Christmas so Esther and I will be flying out to see them right after Christmas. I am so blessed with wonderful children and their spouses!
I want to finish this year strong and go into the next with full steam ahead! I just have a sense that 2010 is going to be a banner year for the church! I am sure there will be changes and surprises because that is what every New Year brings!
I hope you are working on your list for things you are believing God to do for you next year!
Love,
Pastor Mark and Esther Butler
October 2009 eNote
Hello Everyone!
As I sit here and write this e-note we had almost 3 inches of rain this week and most of it in one day! I am reminded that James 5:7 said,
I am excited about the Harvest! I just want to keep reaching one more! God is so good!
We are having our Harvest Festival on the 31st of this month and we are believing for 500 people to attend. It is one of our main outreaches that we do in the community. So if you can make it, come and enjoy the event! It is a lot of fun!
Pastor Adam and Kelly have been given access to their new building and on Sunday they had one person receive salvation! We are celebrating with them and believe that increase will come in every area!
God is faithful and continues to supply all of our needs for our building project! We are trusting Him to pay off the architect and engineers that are working on our construction drawings! What God orders He pays for! Please be in agreement with us for this!
I want to thank everyone for making our 15 year anniversary as a church a great success! I also want to thank everyone for celebrating with me on my 30 years of being in the ministry! I want to borrow words from the Apostle Paul "and I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry." I truly have been blessed by God's wonderful people.
Sincerely,
Pastor Mark and Esther Butler
As I sit here and write this e-note we had almost 3 inches of rain this week and most of it in one day! I am reminded that James 5:7 said,
"Be patient therefore, brethren unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the early and the latter rain. Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draws nigh."The Lord is not coming back until he receives a great harvest of people coming unto Him! Rain is always a type of the Holy Spirit, so there is an out-pouring of the Spirit happening right now!
I am excited about the Harvest! I just want to keep reaching one more! God is so good!
We are having our Harvest Festival on the 31st of this month and we are believing for 500 people to attend. It is one of our main outreaches that we do in the community. So if you can make it, come and enjoy the event! It is a lot of fun!
Pastor Adam and Kelly have been given access to their new building and on Sunday they had one person receive salvation! We are celebrating with them and believe that increase will come in every area!
God is faithful and continues to supply all of our needs for our building project! We are trusting Him to pay off the architect and engineers that are working on our construction drawings! What God orders He pays for! Please be in agreement with us for this!
I want to thank everyone for making our 15 year anniversary as a church a great success! I also want to thank everyone for celebrating with me on my 30 years of being in the ministry! I want to borrow words from the Apostle Paul "and I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry." I truly have been blessed by God's wonderful people.
Sincerely,
Pastor Mark and Esther Butler
September 2009 eNote
Hello Everyone!
I trust that all is well and that you are prospering in the Lord!
We are gearing up for a busy time of year! We are starting our School of Ministry again and it began yesterday, September 14th! This time, our school is running a little different than in the past. We’re offering two courses that will run for 6 weeks and then following those, two different courses will be offered. We’re also offering the opportunity to take every course or just the ones you would like, by simply joining at the beginning of each 6 week course. The School will run from September through April. Esther and I will teach most of the courses. We are very excited about it! If you can make it, come on and join us!
Our church building project continues to inch forward and we are still working with the architect to get the construction plans done. It is going to be a blessing for us and we are looking forward to how God is going to bring it to pass!
As you’re reading this, Esther and I are headed toward the National Gospel Quartet Convention in Louisville, Kentucky! We will also swing by and see Sarah and Wiley as she’s only a mere 3 hours away from Louisville (very close by grandparent’s standards). Adam and Kelly are doing fine and looking forward to being in their new facility by the first of October! Aaron, Jackie, and the boys are well and they continue to be blessings to us in many areas.
It was fun to have Esther's sisters Genny and Cathy with us for Esther's 50th birthday party! Esther was truly surprised and blessed by everyone who was there! Our church is so wonderful to us and we are so blessed!
We’re celebrating our 15th anniversary as a Church October 4th through 7th! It’s going to be fun to look back at where we have come from, and to look forward to where we’re going! We have many pictures of the past so it’s going to be fun to see how far we have come in life. You may want to be there just to see how you looked 15 years ago!
The best is yet to come!
Pastor Mark and Esther Butler
I trust that all is well and that you are prospering in the Lord!
We are gearing up for a busy time of year! We are starting our School of Ministry again and it began yesterday, September 14th! This time, our school is running a little different than in the past. We’re offering two courses that will run for 6 weeks and then following those, two different courses will be offered. We’re also offering the opportunity to take every course or just the ones you would like, by simply joining at the beginning of each 6 week course. The School will run from September through April. Esther and I will teach most of the courses. We are very excited about it! If you can make it, come on and join us!
Our church building project continues to inch forward and we are still working with the architect to get the construction plans done. It is going to be a blessing for us and we are looking forward to how God is going to bring it to pass!
As you’re reading this, Esther and I are headed toward the National Gospel Quartet Convention in Louisville, Kentucky! We will also swing by and see Sarah and Wiley as she’s only a mere 3 hours away from Louisville (very close by grandparent’s standards). Adam and Kelly are doing fine and looking forward to being in their new facility by the first of October! Aaron, Jackie, and the boys are well and they continue to be blessings to us in many areas.
It was fun to have Esther's sisters Genny and Cathy with us for Esther's 50th birthday party! Esther was truly surprised and blessed by everyone who was there! Our church is so wonderful to us and we are so blessed!
We’re celebrating our 15th anniversary as a Church October 4th through 7th! It’s going to be fun to look back at where we have come from, and to look forward to where we’re going! We have many pictures of the past so it’s going to be fun to see how far we have come in life. You may want to be there just to see how you looked 15 years ago!
The best is yet to come!
Pastor Mark and Esther Butler
