Sunday was a great day at Fairview!! How exciting to see so many come together to worship! Jesus never fails to show Himself glorious when we focus on Him and praise Him with everything we've got. I think we have the best team I've ever known working together to make sure that Jesus is worshipped and magnified every Sunday. What a blessing to be serving alongside each one of them.
My man wrapped this series in a beautiful package as he encouraged us in our walk of faith. He pointed out that our greatest desire should be to please God. Our rewards are in heaven not here on earth. No one may ever notice what we do and how we serve here, but nothing gets past the all seeing eyes of God!
I loved this series. It was encouraging but also motivating. It sure motivated me to look through the eyes of what is eternal and to share with as many people as possible the good news if the gospel. Time available to do that is growing short. If it's God's desire that all be saved and none should perish, that should be our greatest desire too and that desire must turn to action as we share with others the reality of dying without Christ.
Next series, Live It, based on the book of James!! Starts in 2 weeks. Get excited!!
Hi everybody! This post will be very similar to the video we are attaching but I wanted to write too in case some can't pull up the video.
I'm so excited about kicking off our women's ministry at Fairview! We have named it Favor and I want to tell you why. I've been praying over a name for us for over a year now. Everything I thought of, God would just bring me back to Favor. I did a lot of research on that word. The Hebrew is sa ah. It means to gaze steadily with interest. God's favor is when God fixes His gaze upon you, the very details of your life. I'm asking you all, who doesn't want that? I sure do! I pray His favor on my family, my church, and of course on my own life. I know that God is the One who chooses where He will show it, but I believe that we can align ourselves in such a way that we can receive it. It means that we walk in obedience to His Word. We walk humbly before Him.
Our verse is Psalm 67:1-2. It says, May God be gracious to us and bless us. Look on us with favor so that Your way may be known on earth, your salvation among the nations. His favor is not about us. It's about Him, His glory! Favor is a ministry for women but it's not about women. It's about Jesus. It's going to be a tool we use to reach women for Him. Also, I want you to know that good times don't mean we have His favor and bad times don't mean we don't. Through some of our hardest days in life and ministry we have felt God's favor. That's true as you look throughout His Word. He showed favor on different people and many times they were in difficult circumstances.
I want you to know that we are not a social club or event group. We are a ministry under Fairview and under the authority of our pastor. We have the same vision as our church.
I also want you to know that we will be multi-generational. As we plan events, we want to plan things that our youngest teens will enjoy as well as our adult women. That means our events may look a bit different. They may not look like what you're used to or what the church down the street is doing. And every event will be outreach oriented, meaning they will be planned with the mindset of inviting women who may give an event a try when they won't yet try a Sunday morning.
We also are working with our discipleship pastor to offer women's bible studies. I will use this blog to do devotions or some encouragement through His Word that you can comment on and encourage others. We will use the blog to give information for upcoming events. You can give your email on the blog so that as soon as a post goes up, you will be emailed. Missy will be linking the blog to the church website for easy access. We have a Facebook page you can join. We want Missy in our office to have your email so that we can send you updates and info. We just want you to stay informed and get involved.
September 7,2014 will be our Favor day at church. That just means that we will have a table where you can sign up for our first event coming in September (all info coming soon), buy or order a Tshirt or hoodie. We will be taking money for the Beth Moore conference here in Greenville in July. Those tickets will be ordered September 15th.
As you can tell so much is going on and I believe God is showing His favor over us at
Fairview. We have a great team of women on our Favor team who are praying and working hard. They have hearts that want to serve God and girls and I'm so thankful for them. They may need some help in carrying out their tasks so if you want to help them or serve with them please step up. I will list their names for you at the bottom. Please pray for all of us and as always pray for our church, staff and leadership! It's a joy to serve you. I love His church at Fairview!!
Sunday was super at Fairview! Worship was powerful and the message was rich in passion and content.
We looked at Satan's Superman, the anti-Christ. We looked at passages in Mark, Daniel and 2 Thessalonians and Revelation. A few highlights...
1. So many passages point to Jesus' return and people still won't believe it's accurate.
2. The unholy trinity takes over during the tribulation...devil, anti-Christ, false prophets.
3. We saw what and who is holding him back.
4. Satan has had his man throughout history just to be ready since he doesn't know the time.
5. Where will the anti-Christ come from?
6. We will have a front row seat as the same voice that created the world will speak again and destroy satan.
7. Where will America be in all of this? Scripture says all nations will be against Israel. Are our leaders already tiring of supporting them?
This could all happen at any time. Are we ready? Are our family and friends ready? Will we step up and tell them how they can be on the winning side?
I'm posting this early because tomorrow's post will be about our new women's ministry, FAVOR!! I can't wait to share all of that with you! It's in video and written form so check it out either way you prefer but be sure and CHECK IT OUT!!
Yesterday at Fairview was one of those days where everything was on a whole new level. Cross Talk, our worship band was on point! Loved seeing Ashley Blevins on the piano on stage! I've convinced myself I'm going sing like her when I get to heaven ☺️. Thanks to Ryan Burns for reminding us and challenging us that God is so worthy of our worship. In case you can't tell, I totally refuse to let any rock cry out on my behalf. When I leave church I want to be energized and exhausted at the same time.
We continued The End with Tribulation Trouble. My husband's message was exciting and encouraging as a believer! I love how he went through his beliefs on the end times in relation to tribulation and the rapture and backed it up with scripture from the Old Testament to the New! We all should be able to do that. It's no longer enough to know what we believe but why we believe it.
I love that Eddie felt the need to speak to those who may be left and tell them what they need to remember. That just shows me his love and concern for the lost. First, do not believe the lie promoted regarding the rapture and what happened to all the ones gone. Second, do not follow the anti-Christ. Third, do not take the mark. Friends, this is an event on the kingdom calendar that could happen at any moment. It should encourage us as believers but scare us for those we know that don't know Christ. We work with them. We live next to them. They sit next to us in class. We eat lunch with them. They're family members. They're friends. We sit in the stands next to them. They're on our teams and in our clubs. We carpool with them. Whatever reason we have for not sharing the good news, it's malarchy! When we know what they will go through if they die without Jesus or the rapture occurs and they're left, no reason is good enough. Let's get intentional! Let's live life on purpose, unashamed of the good news of the gospel. Share Christ while we can because one day will be too late. We are without excuse. I'm praying this week that God brings people across our path to share with and that we will have the boldness to share. Invite someone over the next few weeks. Inviting them to church is the easy thing. If they come, they'll hear the gospel and you won't have to speak it. I promise my man will do that for you. Just get them to church!!
THE END began yesterday! It's a 4 week series on end times and I love that it's coming to us from the gospel of Mark. Yesterday was Signs of theTimes Mark 13:1-8 and we looked at 8 indicators of Jesus' return.
Eddie reminded us of the need to be aware, informed and ready but not obsessed. We have work to do here and we need to be doing what God has called us to do.
We were also challenged to be spiritually strong and doctrinally deep. Persecution will come and a shallow faith won't get it. 1John reminds us that many won't stand and will defect. As Eddie said, rain keeps many away from church and the sun keeps others away. Without a strong faith, we will never stand up under persecution.
On a side note, thank you to so many who have been praying for and asking about my Dad. He came home from the hospital last week. He's lacking energy so continued prayers would be appreciated. All of the calls, texts, and cards have meant so much to all of us! Have a blessed week!
Posting a day early again...😘
