Can you say this and mean it?
Dear PCF family and friends, we will be kicking off the first Worship Service of 2024 this coming Sunday, January 7th at 10:30am. The last couple of months of 2023 we enjoyed a full church each Sunday and a growing Sunday school and nursery. I am excited to see what God wants all of us to do this coming year.
The purpose of church is to prepare people for the KIngdom of Heaven. In the Lord’s prayer we pray “Thy Kingdom Come and Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven!” We come together to worship our father and we come to learn the stories and the teachings of the bible. The bible is our field guide in this life. God uses the church, his followers, to do His will and His work on this earth. We are to be Jesus’ voice, arms, legs, hands, ears, and heart, that is why we are called the body of Christ.
None of us do it perfectly, but we come together regularly to learn and support one another through our struggles as we do the work of Jesus in the broken world we live in. The Church is vital to bringing light into the dark world. At PCF we collect offerings so that we can feed the hungry, help fill needs in the lives of people who have fallen on tough times, and we are there to support people in physical ways too. We visit the sick, we help people who need a assistance, and we pray for one another…Oh that is a vital one! And the beauty of the church is, we all have special gifts which God can use. So I am asking all of you who make PCF such an amazing place to put our church on your prayer list and pray for God’s wisdom and guidance so that we continue to expand His Kingdom as He directs us.
There are many reasons to be excited about our church this coming year. The music department, the volunteers, the Sunday school classes, the young families who are joining us, the international students who are becoming part of our family. We have so much to be grateful for. Praise Community Fellowship welcomes all of you and we are grateful for you.
The board will be meeting together for the first time next Tuesday at 6:00pm and we will begin planning the year. Let me or Gary Watson our Board president know if you have thoughts or ideas that we can discuss at our upcoming board meeting. I will see you Sunday. Love, pastor Kent
Our Church Calendar:
- Wednesday January 3, choir rehearsal, 6:30pm
- Sunday January 7, worship service 10:30am
- Wednesday January 10, Choir Practice, 6:30pm
- Sunday, January 14, worship service, 10:30am
Our Prayer List:
- Patty, Ella Ahrens sister who is battling acute leukemia. PLease lift Patty and her doctors as she undergoes her treatments. Asking for healing and God’s strength and peace.
- Ruth Lange is going to have surgery soon so we lift Ruth and her doctors to God’s wisdom and healing grace.
- Mary and Lee Knapp, Both Mary and Lee need our prayers. Mary has a pinched nerve in her lower back and her are doctors trying to figure out what procedure to do that may help her with her pain. So we are asking for prayers of God’s wisdom and intervention for her and her doctors. Lee fell this morning and is quite sore from the fall. We ask for God for his touch of healing and Peace for Lee and Mary.
- Wendy Wickham, Keep the prayers coming for Wendy. She made it to church again this past Sunday wit the help of Rick Coy. She is doing good an we want to keep her going n that direction.
- Bob Ahrens, Ella’s husband has had a chronic cough for 10 months and so far they just cannot figure out the cause. Let’s lift Bob to the healer of all so that he may receive healing and relief in Jesus name.
- Russ and Betsy Kelleher were with us this past Sunday, Betsy is still need of prayers as she will be having heart surgery coming up soon so please keep the prayers coming for all the Kellehers.
- Nadeen Schuette, mom is still out and about feeling pretty good most the time. She is grateful for your prayers and for the visits.
- Brody Sedlacek, Shawna says Brody is trooper going thru his cancer treatments. I’t’s a lot for an 8 year old to carry. Please continue to lift Brody and his family in prayer as he continues his treatments.
- Micah McKinney, Please lift this young man to our healing father. Micah will be entering treatment for lymphoma.
Praise Community Fellowship, A Joyful church with No Walls! 10:30 am Sundays at Esic Church located at 1000 University Drive Edwardsville. God’s Truth with Love and Compassion. Praise Community Fellowship Church is a 100% volunteer Church. We have no salaries or paid positions. Come be part of a Joyful Christian Family. Have questions? Call Pastor Kent @ 618-334-3575. Or Board President. Gary Watson @ 409-781-6510