If you are looking for a church home, we might be looking for each other. We have a solid Sunday School program at 9am each Sunday, with classes for youngsters, middlers/Jr. High, High School, and adults. We have a Bible Study for men and one for women throughout the school year. We are committed to missions by getting to know and communicate with missionaries, by giving financially, by going ourselves to serve, and by sending from our own church those who feel called to go. We support local, national, and international mission outreaches. Basic to this is our belief that each of us is called to share our faith with those we contact each day.
Care Groups
“Care groups” is our way of wanting to talking about how we meet together and encourage one another on the six days between Sundays. At this time we have one large care group. Below are the individuals to contact if you have questions about care groups.
- Glenn McIntyre- Perrysburg area (419) 874-4315
- Mike Klenda-Bowling Green area (419) 307-2881
Ten Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Year:
Once, when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the Lord rebuked them through the prophet Haggai. “Consider your ways!” (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging them to reflect on some of the things happening to them, and to evaluate their slipshod spirituality in light of what God had told them. Even those most faithful to God occasionally need to pause and think about the direction of their lives. It’s so easy to bump along from one busy week to another without ever stopping to ponder where we’re going and where we should be going. The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to stop, look up, and get our bearings. To that end, here are some questions to ask prayerfully in the presence of God.
1. What’s one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?
2. What’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?
3. What’s the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?
4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?
5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?
6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?
7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?
8. What’s the most important way you will, by God’s grace, try to make this year different from last year?
9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?
10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in ten years? In eternity?
The value of many of these questions is not in their profundity, but in the simple fact that they bring an issue or commitment into focus. For example, just by articulating which person you most want to encourage this year is more likely to help you remember to encourage that person than if you hadn’t considered the question.
If you’ve found these questions helpful, you might want to put them someplace—in a day planner, PDA, calendar, bulletin board, etc.—where you can review them more frequently than once a year. So let’s evaluate our lives, make plans and goals, and live this new year with biblical diligence, remembering that, “The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage” (Proverbs 21:5). But in all things let’s also remember our dependence on our King who said, “Apart from Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5).
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