If you’re looking at our church website, I’m guessing you’d like to know a little bit more about us. I offer this prayer from our worship service as a window into our church family. We don’t care who you are, you are welcome here. Peace, P.Ray

Almighty God,

We hear the story of Moses again, and we once more listen to your law, your words. You envision a nation that is loving, caring for the poor, the widows and orphans, and foreigners residing in our land. There is justice for everyone for no one is above Your law. Your Spirit of Truth lives in us. We are blessed when we are obedient to Your word.

Your one and only Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the Lamb of God Who Takes Away Our Sin, taught us what You value most. You ask us to love You with everything we have, body, mind, heart, soul, family, bank account, home, food, job, church, children. And we find that when we do that, You give us back a hundred-fold. We are not left with nothing when we give it all to You, we now have everything because we have You.

The Prince of Peace taught us that we should share Your love with our neighbors and to treat them well because we want to be treated well. And inside that command is another one, to love ourselves. To be kind to ourselves. To stop beating ourselves up for all our past mistakes. You have forgiven us. We need to accept that we are worthy of Your love and forgiveness. Not because we say so, but because You said so when you sent Jesus.

Our Marvelous Counselor taught us to love even the people we don’t want to love. Because You want every single soul to come home. Every single black sheep is wanted in the Kingdom of God. Every dark horse has a home in God’s house. Every sinner has a place prepared just for them by a loving God, if they will only repent and believe in Jesus, live like Jesus, love like Jesus for Jesus’ sake. So we welcome everyone into the flock because we were once sinners, and we have been set free. We want everyone to experience You, Lord.

Create in us a clean heart, O God, so we can faithfully share Your love and Good News to a world in desperate need of both. In the Name Above All Names at which every knee will bow, in the name of Jesus we pray, and all God’s people said, “Amen!”