“Evaluate your community, equip your volunteers, establish your goals. However, don’t set your goals too high. Make the goals reachable, because the church needs to be able to celebrate.”
Thirty-five kids, ages one and a half to 11, rode 356 laps around the church property on a 1/4 mile track to raise money for the church mission support offering, which goes to global mission organizations.
“Ministry is difficult, but it’s not complicated. It’s supposed to be simple. Share the gospel, make disciples, and build churches that send people to share the gospel, make disciples, and build churches,” Jeff Iorg said.
During the week, in addition to the professions of faith, there were 109 decisions to recommit lives to focus on Christ, other decisions made, and prayers lifted to the Lord.
The events of the day created an increased urgency for evangelism, an invitation, and a salvation that only God could orchestrate, said Lead Pastor Russ Harbin.
The lab, according to the website, is a one-day workshop “that will help you develop a vision and plan for leading your church to send.”
The event was created in 2014 as a way to share the love of God with people living with disabilities. According to the foundation, the event “celebrates their worth and value. When someone hears that they are loved and that they have a purp
“We are to love people and we started going after people,” said pastor Chris Pritchett. “When someone gets burned out of their house, if they qualify, we put them in one of our houses until they get back on their feet…”
“That’s a big responsibility to lead people to Jesus. That’s what our call is as worship leaders,” said pianist Cindy Tyus at First Baptist Church, Moultrie, Georgia.
Ryzhkov is the pastor of Calvary Russian Baptist Church, a growing congregation of believers in the Alpharetta/Cumming area, but his ministry extends far beyond his local church and reaches into Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
