Rachel Fisher, Children’s Ministries Communications Specialist Isaiah 30:20-21 (ESV) 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. Reflection: The other day I went to run errands after an argument with my mother. As most quarrels go, I now cannot remember why we were fighting…but at [...]

Louise McEvoy, Adult Ministries Coordinator, 1 Samuel 25:18-19, 23-27, 30-33 (NIV) 18 Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. 19 Then she told her servants, “Go on ahead; I’ll follow you.” 23 When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. 24 She fell at his feet and said: “Pardon your servant, my lord, and [...]

Peggy Roe, Member, Board of Trustees  Genesis 45:4-8 “Then Joseph said…., ’I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed, or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent [...]

Amy Kelley, Dir. of Program Ministries, Gethsemane Psalm 139 (CEB) 1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. 3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord, you know it completely. 5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I [...]

Michael Mosby, Children’s Church Coordinator Acts 9:10-17 In Damascus there was a believer named Ananias. The Lord called out to him in a vision. “Ananias!” he said. “Yes, Lord,” he answered. 11 The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street. Ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying. 12 In a vision Saul has seen a man come and place his hands on him. That man’s name is Ananias. In the vision, Ananias placed his hands on Saul so he could see again.” 13 “Lord,” Ananias answered, “I’ve heard many reports [...]

Shelby Olive Exodus 14:10-16, 26-28 10 As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them. In great fear the Israelites cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve [...]

Joseph Patty; Associate Director of Student Ministry, Small Town Boy Who’s Lost in the City Jeremiah 25:3, 5, 9, 11  “For twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened […], saying “Turn now everyone from his evil way and from your evil deeds [….] Therefore […] I will send Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations around it [….] And these nations will serve the king of [...]

Charity Autry, Member since 2008, Families in Faith Sunday School Leader, Starting Point Leader, VBS Chair (Children’s Ministry Council) Philippians 3:13-14 (NIV)  13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.  Reflection: I love cooking shows. Last week I was watching Feed Phil, a light-hearted Netflix foodie show. Phil Rosenthal, the host, takes you to different [...]