LIFE IN CHETWYND

Last week, April and I had the privilege of spending several days in Chetwynd, meeting with all our Pastors in the North. Bill and Karen Evans have been pastoring in Chetwynd for the past thirty plus years. As I watched from a distance, I see that Bill is the chaplain of the town of Chetwynd.

A COME-BACK STORY: EXPERIENCING GOD AT WORK AT IMMANUEL FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH

How did this happen? What do we do now? How will we recover from this? Those might have been questions mulling around the heads of the leadership team and church family at Immanuel Fellowship Baptist Church in Abbotsford, BC just over two years ago. Their lead pastor had resigned. Three out of five of their other staff members left over the next five months. They were in the midst of planning a whole new vision for the church and suddenly all that work came to an abrupt halt. They lost three board members. Over a short period of time their congregation plummeted from 500 to 200. And from all that, their finances suffered greatly. The future looked uncertain, but those still there didn’t lose hope and they had the desire to move forward. They began to pray, they formed a search committee and trusted that God would provide. The leadership decided to find an interim pastor first, someone who could come and help them heal and walk with them as they worked through painful issues.

DISCIPLESHIP — LARA MCALLISTER

Disciple making. As followers of Christ we are instructed by Jesus in Matthew 28 to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”

VISION — DAVID HORITA

Welcome to 2018 and our new website and new blog. It is one small step as we seek to implement our new vision. In April the churches of Fellowship Pacific overwhelmingly agreed to pursue a vision that will demand all of our passion and focus. Read the new vision statement, and note the use of the word “every.”

IMMERSE GRADUATION & CORNERSTONE

If I needed to find one word to describe the past six weeks it would need to be something like the word “grateful.” Yes I know, that sounds like a bit of a cliché since we just celebrated Thanksgiving but truly, “grateful” is the only thing that I can come up with at the moment. I want you to know that in this context, it reaches beyond our cultural calendar.

LEGACY DINNER

“We just need a good memory. If we can imagine it, God can do more!” – words spoken by David Horita at the Legacy Dinner on October 14th.