Bearing Fruit

What a day for our congregation. Yesterday, myself and another sister went to visit a young woman in our congregation that had fallen into sin and quit attending. After a lengthy visit, tears and prayer, we left her with hopes she would come back to the Lord. This morning, to our great delight, she did return, made it a point to meet with our elders and made her life right with God and the church. What a humble, contrite spirit she displayed and what rejoicing we each experienced in our church family to have her among us again.

But that wasn't all. Another member's elderly mother, who is in a nursing home, decided she needed to be baptized this afternoon. How exciting is that. What a glorious God we have that will accept us into his fold regardless of what stage we are in our lives.

And if that was not enough, we had a young family of five who have recently moved to our area place membership with us. The young father of this family was baptized as a teen, but fell away and eventually married his young wife. They were both in the world, without God and eventually moved from up north into our area. About a month ago, they showed up in our midst. After a couple of weeks, she was baptized and today he made acknowledgement of sin in his life and they have committed their lives to Christ.

We are greatly rejoicing over the power of God's word on people's lives. Truly it is as powerful today as it has ever been. The Gospel changes lives and brings hope to broken hearts. May we all continue to take to those who are seeking Him and His promises.

Dana Burk