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God is at work in Hillsville Virginia. There are so many opportunities that we have to minister to people in this community. I am excited to be part of a church (1st United Methodist Church Hillsville) that is actively taking the gospel to a world, right outside our doors who needs to know that God loves them and wants to have a personal relationship with each and every one of them.
We have done so many things that I could never remember all of them, things to intentionally reach out into the community around us. We have ministries that reach from the youngest to the oldest, from female to male. To the lost, the least, and the hurting. We also reach out to those who feel that they have the world by the tail and they appear to have everything.
A couple of the most recent ministries of First Hillsville have included a Sunday School class that will meet at a local retirement home every Sunday morning starting in May. This is an outreach to those who can no longer come to the place where they have grown to love and cherish and at the same time a ministry to those who have never known what a church has to offer. We are excited about this new outreach.
Another ministry outreach is our new Parish Nurse Ministry that will be led by Farrah Vaughn. This ministry will give the membership of the church an assurance there is someone we can go to for help in understanding medical issues that are so often hard to understand. This ministry will be presented to our church family this week in worship @8:30 and 11am and we are excited.
And then the most recent opportunity that the congregation learned about this past week is the opportunity to start a New Worship Service where we will reach out to the 79% of the population in Carroll County who currently have no church affiliation. This group, this Body of Christ, can do this. This group of people has reached out in the past and this is one more opportunity to do more of the same. There are questions that will need to be answered, there are untold possibilities, and there are many people all around us who need to know the love of God in their lives. This is what it is all about, we are here to spread the love of Jesus Christ. The Church is the only organization that exists for those outside its membership. We are still here because God has determined for us, His People, to join Him in His work of Redemption.
You will receive several opportunities in the next couple of weeks to learn more about this new and awesome opportunity that God has offered us to join Him in, I will blog more about it as we move along. In the in-between time please join me in prayer for guidance and direction as we move forward with God in His work.
Ronnie