But How Will They Know?

When do you feel loved? I guess there could be many different answers to that question since we are all unique. So let me make it a little more specific. When you go into a new group of people, what would make you feel accepted and cared for?

Recently, a cousin of mine who I have not seen in quite some time came back home from California for a visit. My cousin lived in the Collinsville area for years and he and his wife were involved in a couple of the areas main line Christian churches that you would all be very familiar with. But while visiting with them I was moved by something they said. They said they joined a small non-denominational church in California and for the very first time ever in more than 40 years of going to church together, they were actually asked by members of this church to join them at their table when they met before church at the social hour and then….drum roll please...were actually asked to come to dinner at some of the members homes!  Unheard of!   Outrageous!…Utter blasphemy!  Can you imagine!

40 years of attending large main line Christian churches and they have to go all the way to California to find fellowship and acceptance?  Don't pat yourself on the back yet. The story is not over. I have been having lunches and dinners with some new members and also with some people we haven't seen in a while.  Guess what? We too have missed the boat. Now I see this as an amazing opportunity!

Look at our home web page. Praise Community Fellowship A place where unconditional love changes lives! 

What does that mean to you?   This Sunday 4:00PM Airplane Park Center Grove Road, church fellowship picnic. Lets mean it!  Lets become it! Lets show it! Because we all want people to have their lives changed with God's unconditional love!  Lets never have any one ever say, "I left because I just didn't feel welcome!

Big things are coming for those who wait on the Lord!  See you Sunday, bring a friend, a neighbor, a stranger.  See you there. Bring a side dish or a desert if you would like.

Love, pastor kent