Saturday, April 27, 2013

Bring in the Reinforcements




In 2010 FBC celebrated 165 years of God's faithfulness.  In order to highlight the abundant mercies of the Lord we invited one of the nation's premier Bible expositors to come and "bring the book."  Pastor Lawson has been a very important mentor to me and has become a ministry friend.

We also invited area churches and like-minded ministry friends to join us for this very special celebration. Brothers and sisters in Christ from Elim Baptist and Morningstar Baptist sweetened our fellowship time!

Our  conference speaker, Dr. Steve Lawson, experienced many similar challenges in his very trying ministry at Dauphin Way Baptist Church.  He understands first hand how difficult and how painful church revitalization ministry and biblical reformation can be.  In God's good providence the Lord brought Pastor Lawson to Freeport in May 2010.   Besides the faithful preaching of the Word of God Pastor Lawson also greatly encouraged us to press on  in the face of various obstacles and challenges.