Take Time to Encourage

We have been doing a Sunday night study through 1 Thessalonians. One thing that is hard to miss in this epistle is Paul's love and concern for his brothers and sisters in Christ. He cried when they cried, but just as important, he rejoiced when they rejoiced. For some reason in our society today it is hard to find people that are genuinely excited to see God's blessings in the lives of others. I think about the ministry, as a pastor I will share what God is doing with a fellow minister and instead of praising God with me, they have to think of a time that they have out done what ever it is that has been accomplished. Can't you just take time to praise God with me. Or even worse when I here ministers nitpicking at another ministers ministry because God is blessing and they are not seeing the same results in their church. Can't we just stop and praise God for his work. I wonder how much more could be accomplished in the cause of Christ if we could learn to encourage one another. What a joy its to hear about God working in some of our sister churches. Let this encourage us to pray harder and work more faithfully to see the same effect in our church. We all go through struggles from time to time, instead of beating others down to help our own pity party, lets use their blessing as an encouragement to keep on pressing on. Let's face it, look around you, we are all blessed. Thank you Lord for what you are doing in my ministry and I praise you for your work here and your work in all of the churches that are faithfully proclaiming the name of the Lord.

Better Late Than Never

OK, I am late again but what is it they say, better late than never. I have brought the church website up-to-date with pictures and sermons. We have been so busy here at Kendale, but please do not take that as a complaint. God is truly blessing the work here. Summer is about over so vacations are about out of the way and our worship crowd is getting back to normal. We are gearing up for Revival with Bro. Mark Cash, associate pastor at Hilltop FWB. I went to school one year with Mark at SE and renewed our friendship through some church services we have attended at Hilltop since moving to North Carolina. I am excited about having him come. I find that after the hustle and bustle of summer vacations nothing brings you back into focus on the Lord's work like a good ole fashion revival. We have also started raising money and recruiting teams for our annual Homecoming Classic. This was a great event last year and we are looking for an even better event this year. On the day following the tournament is our Homecoming service, we are looking for a great time in the Lord with special music, good preaching, and what is a homecoming without good eating. So look on the side to find event dates and links to some of our new photos and sermons. As always thank you for the honor of sharing our ministry with you.

We Made It

Another wonderful year of VBS. We had our best attendance in my three years here at Kendale Acres. We had a high night of 42 and averaged in the mid 30's for the rest of the week. Everything seemed to go real smooth this year, maybe we are getting the hang of this thing. We had over 35 workers every night, what a blessing. Seeing the smiles on the kids faces every night made all the work worth it. Only God knows the eternal significance of this week. I want to give a very special thank you to all of our workers. We could not have done this week with out you. One more event as we will close out the week with a tailgate party tomorrow night from 5pm-7pm. Come and join us if you can.

Way Behind

Ok I am running way behind on keeping the sermons and the Pastor's Pen up to date. Never fear, the sermons are loading as I type. I will blog about this later, but we are closing out a very successful week of Vacation Bible School tonight. We had a high night of 42 and maybe we will break that tonight. Anyway, I will give you all the updates on that this weekend. I just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know our recent sermons will be on the website today. God is working in our sevices and maybe these messages will be a blessing to you as well. Drop us a note and tell us what you think and sign the church guestbook if you get a chance.