CHAA CHAA CHAA CHANGES

Some of you will notice a change in the layout of the web site www.nv4christ.com. Thank you for being faithful readers of our site and our pages. You will notice the compass in the top left of the pages I felt that with our change in District level and Pastoral level (The departure of Rev. Tom Hanover Foothills District DS and Rev. Dan Evory Lead Pastor at New Vision Cooperative Ministries.) That a change in all direction needed to be looked into. That was especially evident after the message brought to us by Foothills District ADS Brent Watson. He was talking about the stories of our lives. How we all live through various chapters of our lives that as one chapter closes another one is opened. It is up to us to either live in the past chapters, or to grab onto God’s hand and know He is always with us, as we begin a new chapter. I feel that I do get comfortable with the old, the way it is and use to be and sometimes not willing to move forward. But when we do this we get left behind and we slowly wither away and die. I refuse to be that person and I thank God for my wife Tina that kicks me in the hind end from time to time (OK probably all the time).
Now we as a church, as our cooperative the New Vision Cooperative and we as individuals must get ready to move forward, we MUST GET OUT OF THE PAST LEST WE DIE!!!!! Let us leave the good old days, of times gone by, and be looking forward to the better days that lay ahead of us. Let us look forward to a rebirth, of a renewal of our spirits that we step out and do what is needed to jump start our ministries, right here, right now. Let us stop whining about how it use to be and start praising God for what He is doing right now in our lives and is going to be doing in the future of our churches. Let us quit looking for who is going to do something and start doing it ourselves. God is with us; He is with you, so what are you going to do with His help and guidance.
A time for change is now and time for a new chapter in our churches, this cooperative and our lives is right now. Ask God what is it that He would have you do, those things that have been pinging in your heart and bouncing in your head is God trying to get your attention. Will you listen to Him, will you pray and ask for His discernment. What are you being called to do, where are you being called to go and how are you to be the hands and feet of Christ? Let us turn the page and start writing the next chapter of our life, our churches' life, the New Vision's life and know that He will be there with us, always!!!

Go with the Grace, Mercy, Peace and Love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Gary