Our First Lord's Day

July 23rd was the first Lord's Day gathering for Berean Reformed Baptist Fellowship. The Lord blessed us with a great service. We had 27 people in attendance. 12 of them were children under 7. We already have two more families who are supposed to come this week.
Both the worship service and the discipleship hour which followed were a great encouragement. I started preaching this week in the gospel of John. We got through the first two verses and saw already the deity of Jesus based on His eternal essence. Until we have a pianist, we are singing with an accompaniment cd. The Lord blessed us with a more than phenomenal deal on a portable PA system. This is actually working out great. A friend has let us borrow a data projector. We use this to place the words on the screen for worship and to teach during our discipleship hour.
Charly started off our discipleship hour with a lesson on the first question from the children's catechism, "Who made you?" Then he started taking us through our church constitution. We will do this long enough to teach the constitution and the articles of faith. At that point the people will know the church and whether they desire to join the fellowship. Then we will sign a covenant and become a church! The first order of business will be to recognize Charly and I as the pastors.
We are very encouraged as God continues to show His faithfulness.
One of the brothers in the fellowship has offered to make a pulpit from solid oak. I can't wait! This coming Lord's Day worship will be followed by a fellowship at our home. This is sure to be a great time.
Thank you all so much for your prayers and encouragement. I hope to continue updates here as we go along.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow!

Ok, ok, ok

Alright already!
I'll admit, I have been slack on the blog. Though I have kind of been waiting til there was something significant to report. I will give a bullet list of updates.

• Still job searching
• Nikki got a job at Sonic
• I might get a job at Sonic (just kidding)
• The house is unpacked
• My study has been unpacked but as of today, organized!
• Charly (the other pastor) and I have written the constitution for Berean Reformed Baptist Church (BRBC).
• BRBC is now listed with the IRS.
• BRBC is now on the web at www.BRBChurch.com. (Under construction, but on the web)
• BRBC will begin meeting on Sunday mornings on July 23rd!
• I will begin preaching expositorily through John's gospel.

Thank you to all of you that have been faithful to pray for me, my family and BRBC.

I will do my best to keep the blog up to date.

Until next time,

RC