You can't really take a holiday from worship - can you?
This picture illustrates for me how Christmas and Easter are all part of the same wonderful redemption plan. The above cross started out as our Christmon tree. It's a great way of teaching the whole congregation about the links between Christmas and Easter, using a symbol that becomes alive with meaning. Easter is such a dynamic time of the year that when Easter Monday is over I'm ready to sleep for a week.
I've been away from my desk for a few days, trying to chill out a bit after Easter. I must confess however that my mind has been thinking on so many opportunities that I believe God is opening up for us here in Bo'ness. Over the next few months I'm going to be concentrating my mind on the areas where we will be expanding and growing our ministry. I'm delighted that we have been successful in attracting some professional input into the way we begin to manage this growth.
Some of you may recall that our motto last year was " launch out into the deep" I'm convinced that as we continue to be obedient to the Lord and start fishing we will begin to see some amazing things happen. Already I can see signs of these things beginning to happen. Thanks to our grant award from "Children in Need" there will be an additional member added to the staff in the next few months to develop our work with families. This will be a valuable addition to the existing team that works with various age groups in the church. It will also allow us to reach out into the community and offer additional services.
One area that I feel I want to write about over the next few weeks is the place of doxology and worship in the life of the Church. I hope this will be a good lead up to the recording of our next church praise album in the middle of June. No doubt there will be postings about that coming up.
In everything we seek to do as a church we need to continually remind ourselves that our core business is worship and prayer. we believe this can take many shapes and forms, but we need to understand that when all is said and done we live to worship. I think creating the daily opportunity to worship in the morning and the evening has been a blessing to me. However I hope that we will be able to encourage more people within the congregation and the community to join us in our daily devotions from 9.15am - 9.25 am and from 5.00pm - 5.10pm. It is my desire that we create a living dynamic creative christian Community here in Bo'ness.
