Room to Spare?

For the past 17 years, Heidi and I have had a continuous stream of “guests” living with us in our home – friends, exchange students, interns and renters. As you can imagine, this has been both challenging and rewarding.

We live in a culture that struggles to find the balance between privacy and hospitality, between community and individualism.

This weekend I invite you to make the services a high priority in your scheduling by joining your church family for a time of inspirational worship and encouraging teaching. My message is entitled “Room to Spare” and will look at the dramatic Old Testament story of Mephibosheth – a “disabled” orphan who lived a remarkable life. It will be the final message of the “Our House” series.

James 1:27 says, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”

I also invite you to begin praying about your part in supporting The Manila Project during 2008. This is a specific way that we have united to offer hope to the needy in a way that is literally touching thousands of lives every week. Please partner with me in prayer that we would again be able to meet the budgetary needs of this project.

Did you know that you can now give to EFC online? Click HERE to access the “Secure Give” website for tithing or supporting The Manila Project and The Legacy Project.