Updated: Church in the... Church

We had planned to have
Church in the Park

on Sunday, October 7 at 10:30am.
Due to the weather changes,
we'll be at the church.

There will also be a cookout

following the worship service
and it will be held at the
Family Life Center.

(There is still no Sunday School on October 7.)

SYATP is Wednesday

7:20am - Madison-Grant Junior/Senior High

7:45am - Park and Summitville Elementaries

See You at the Pole™, the global day of student prayer, began in 1990 as a grass roots movement with ten students praying at their school. Twenty years later, millions pray on their campuses on the fourth Wednesday in September.

See You at the Pole™ is simply a prayer rally where students meet at the school flagpole before school to lift up their friends, families, teachers, school, and nation to God. See You at the Pole™ is a student-initiated, student-organized, and student-led event.

A God of Restoration

My friend, you may be broken; you may think your life is beyond repair, may be you “fallen off the wagon” and every thing looks so dark and hopeless. Perhaps you feel like it is too late –like things now so messed up for you even to have a hope. But allow me to share with you this truth today, your life is not beyond repair! It is not over until God says it’s over! No matter how dark your life looks, with Christ your future is bright. Our God is a God of restoration! He is a God of new things. A new life, a new beginning, new covenant, new hearts, and new way of doing things. Because he is a God of new things there is always hope and future. There is joy and peace. Listen what the Scripture says, “I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the LORD” Jeremiah 30: 17.

Many may be given up on you; even at this moment you may struggling with a lot of questions and crying from the depth of your soul and saying when is God heal me? Restore me? When is my time, Lord? The list of your question may be long, but let me tell you this today; your life is not beyond restoration. Your situation is not your destination. No matter how hard it looks God will never give up on you. God is not like people; He will be with us through the thick and thin. Despite your past, despite what you have been through, God will never give up on his children.

Today, open your heart for God’s healing. Come to the master craftsman. He specializes in taking what is not and creating what is. He is in the business of restoring hopes, broken dreams, wounded spirits, troubled minds, and hopeless lives. Come as you are! Bring your situation that seems hopeless, dim, broken, beyond repair and without luster, God can restore and make it new. There is nothing beyond his power of restoration. God can restore, and God can forgive, and God can take a broken vessel and remake and refashion all over again.

My friends, you don’t have to try to fix the problem on your own, you don’t have to be weighed down by the cares of this world. Let it go and let God take care of it. In fact, if God says I will take care it, he already did. Don’t try to cover up. Don’t try to clean up by yourself. You just come to Jesus and he will take all your sins and gives you new life. He will give you peace and hope. He will give you meaning to your life. He will satisfy you and make you whole. It is never too late to find God’s healing for your brokenness. Do not allow your present or past brokenness keep you from claiming what is yours. God’s favor is upon you. Today, allow him to restore you lovingly, and you will never be the same again. Bring your brokenness to Him, and ask Him to restore you, make you new and heal and set you free from those things in your past, whether they’ve been done to you, or whether it’s something that you have chosen to do. When God restore your life he will make it a brand new life. He will gives you a resurrection. He will restore what you have lost!

Great Time at Taste of Marion

We had a good afternoon as we got to interact with hundreds of students.  We look forward to connecting with students and providing them a home away from home church.  Fairmount Wesleyan is a great place to serve and connect with the local community and we hope that many college students get to experience this.  Scoot over some and leave some extra space for them this Sunday!

Welcome IWU Students

Great to see so many of you at Taste of Marion today!  Here is an important room to remember for Sunday morning (also see below for the semester class topic list):

College & Young Adult Sunday School Class Dates and Topics:

(Meeting @ Room 302—9:30am)

[Fall Semester—A Study on the Topic of Sabbath]

Sep        09         Introducing Sabbath: Starting to Stop

              16         Special Guest Speaker

              23        Work: One Thing Before You Stop

              30         A Beautiful Mind: Thinking Anew

Oct        07        The Rest of God: Finding What’s Missing

              14        In God’s Time: Seeing God’s Bigness

              21        The Rest of Time: Numbering Our Days Aright

              28        We’re Not in Egypt Anymore: Remove Taskmasters

Nov       04        Losing My Religion: Stopping Legalism

              11        The Golden Rule: Finding Center

              18        Play: Just to Waste Time

              25        Restore: Becoming Whole

Dec        02        Feast: Tasting the Kingdom

              09        Listen: Hearing God

              16        Remember: Picking Up the Pieces