Our first Bible Study

As I look back over the past two months, I am very encouraged to see how God is bringing to fruition the vision that He has placed in my heart. It is strange to think that we have been praying for this for the past two months and to think that our first official Bibles study is only one week away.

I would request that you pray with us as we begin this new endeavor. We are going to be studying the book of Nehemiah. It is our desire to have God use this church plant to restore the walls and gates (Salvation and Praise) to Angels Camp. Over the past two months we have been regularly going to Angels Camp and have met many people. God has burdened us to see Jesus restore people to their Creator and Savior Jesus Christ.

If you are in the area next Sunday please stop by and join us as we study Gods word and seek to be apart of what Jesus does in Angels Camp. We will begin our meeting at 4:30 PM at the Golden State Cellular Building in Angels Camp. Hope to see you there.

Happy Thanksgiving

I just wanted to take a moment to wish everybody a HAPPY THANKSGIVING. 

On a side note, we will be meeting this Sunday at Golden State Cellular in Angels Camp. We are going to use this time to get to know one another and pray for Refuge. We will meet from 4:30 to 6:00 PM. Hope to see you all there.

Here we come.

Tonight we are going to begin meeting regularly in 

Angels Camp. We will be meeting at 4:30 PM at the Golden State Cellular facility. We hope you will be able to join us. If you can't make this meeting we will be there next week.

Prayer at Starbucks!

Tonight, Mark and I traveled to Angels Camp. After driving around for awhile and talking about things like leadership styles and how to disciple men, we met Joy Barns at Starbucks. It was apparent that Joy has a burden for the people of Angels Camp. We talked about many things such as teaching style, the importance of small groups and discipleship, to name a few. We ended our meeting with a time of prayer for the community and God's direction for this church plant.

We left our meeting with Joy and went to Subway, where that we met one of the Sheriff's deputies. He shared with us that the biggest need in Angels Camp, is things for the kids to do. He expressed that his department spends most of their time dealing with teenagers who are getting in trouble because they don't have anything else to do.

It was an encouraging time. We sensed that God is putting the pieces together for this new work in Angels Camp. Please keep us in your prayers. Thanks.

A Sunday morning thought.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, 

so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. 

1 Thessalonians 2:4

As I was reflecting on the word this morning, God brought me to this passage. I thought that it was a good reminder of a couple of things. 

The first thing is that we are approved by God. I know sometimes I think I am required to earn my approval. That couldn't be any farther from the truth. So let us reflect on Jesus today so that we might remember our position in Christ.

The second is that with our position comes responsibility. We were entrusted with the gospel. (The good news) So let us share that with others today. That God might recieve glory from us today.