Kerry and I just traveled again to Scott Valley and Etna for dinner out. It is always a walk down memory lane. We only lived there two years but I still dream of those years and the adventures in ministry with Bill and Sue Birch and on the ranch. Creation shouting everywhere you turn of God's glory. Ministry here in Weed and McCloud is similar. We have old friends and new friends. Kerry's best friend from high school lives in Yreka. She married Tim Nielsen and her name is Debbie. They attend Covenant Chapel and assist the pastor as self supporting servants in the kingdom. The ministerial in Weed is really pretty incredible. With all the denominational differences our Lord Jesus binds us together. My new friend Bernie Van E is an awesome pastor in the Christian Reformed church who understands our reformed theology and appreciates historic orthodoxy. He rocks. My pentecostal brother Keith has a keen heart for God and there is of course Rev. Henry Gaines an African American Baptist and Bill Hoefer with the dispensational fundamentalist Bereans. The later are both old friends.
I just finished writting friends in Waldport and frankly I am in awe at how the fabric of life is dripping with such love and tenderness. God you rock because your faithfulness is everlasting. I pray for the renewal and revival of all these little churches and communities. Lift up the name of Jesus and glorify your name.
Tear down the denomination barrier and root us in JEsus Christ the center of life.
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