Pics from Pilgrimage 2007

Update

A lot has been going on at our little church during the month of November. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrated Founder's Day, and our attendance was 116. Then, the very next night, we had our annual Charge Conference, which was also well-attended, followed by four nights of revival meetings. On Tuesday night, Pastor Bud's sister, Angela Brady, gave a Christian concert, with 50 in attendance. On Wednesday night, a pastor friend of Bud's, Rev. Joel Perry from the Rockingham District preached on the topic "Where Will You Go When You Die?" - Rev. Perry played a number on the piano for us, and we had attendance of 47. On Thursday night, Rev. Mike Grady preached on the topic of the "Second Coming of Christ," and we also had special music that night by the Harmony Boys. Our attendance was 89, and on the last night of Revival, we had Rise Again perform - with attendance of 50. Almost every evening saw someone come down to the altar to pray, particularly on Thursday night.

On Friday, several of our youth, and some of our adults, drove down to Fayetteville to attend Pilgrimage 2007, where over 5,000 young people and chaperones assembled in Crown Coliseum to hear excellant preaching and testimonies - the event last until Sunday morning; Pastor Jenness drove down to be with our group on Friday night, and drove back for our morning service that Sunday morning. On Saturday night, he led three of our young people to Christ, and we thank the Lord for this wonderful news!

Soon we will begin preparing for Advent, and there will be even more activity in the month of December!

Text for Sunday, November 11th, 2007

James chapter 1:

1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 2My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 4But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 7For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. 8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 9Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. 12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 13Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: 14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. 16Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. 22But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.