Yesterday — the Lord’s Day at Curwensville Alliance Church was incredible. It began with a good Sunday School class taught by Matt McCracken. He’s doing a great job detailing the material in The Search for Significance. I enjoyed looking over the book and spending time being part of Matt’s class. Pray for each Sunday School class — that they will be marked by consistent attendance, personal growth, and numeric increase.

The Baptism Service is coming up at the end of the month. This week I have a couple more students who want to go through the material. I love teaching them the meaning of baptism so that their own experience of baptism is significant. Pray for those who are considering baptism — that they will understand the concept and obey.

The Morning Worship Service was a good time of looking at Jesus’ words to the Sadducees concerning their failure to know God’s word and God’s power. To my delight, when I arrived home in the evening, there was a message from someone whose husband said, “Man — Pastor Steve was talking straight to me today! I want to come to the Genesis Bible Study!” We all know it wasn’t “Pastor Steve” talking. It was God, through his Spirit, speaking in the message. It’s amazing to me that God uses this vehicle of preaching to communicate his truth. Pray that he will continue to work in the lives of those who hear God’s word proclaimed.

Many in the church family enjoyed a pleasant luncheon together and afterward, Laurel and I made a quick trip to see my mother in the rehabilitation home. Her arm looks much better, but she’s having trouble finding hope that she will get back to the room she had been in before she fell. While there, we received the prayer-line message concerning Bev being in DRMC. Laurel and I made it to DRMC just moments after Bev had been transferred to Pittsburgh, but I was able to speak to her father. He brought me up to date on Bev and promised to let her know Curwensville Alliance would be praying for her. Please remember Bev in prayer as her liver is not performing the proper function at this time.

The Outreach Committee had a good meeting, finalizing details for the Fishers of Men Tournament Trail. Dave Clark will be speaking at that event. If you can help with anything, speak to Tim Smay. Among other items discussed was the need to help A Day Awaits with the lock-in this weekend. If you can help with that, please contact Brennan Bell as soon as possible. The committee noted there were lots of empty spaces on the sign-up sheets. And please remember to pray concerning the lock-in.

Thanks for praying regarding the ministry of your church, Curwensville Alliance.

~Pastor Steve