This Sunday at Glik Park and more

Our Sanctuary for this coming Sunday July 9th. We invite anyone who seeks love, peace and God's grace to join us!

Sanctuary:  A sacred place. In the Old Testament the first sanctuary was a sacred place where man and God communed together and it was called the Garden of Eden. Later in Biblical history God instructed man to construct a tabernacle called the tent of meeting, a Holy place where God dwelled so man could come to Him under special requirements of sacrifice and ritual. Eventually a sanctuary was built by King Solomon and was called the Holy Temple. Today, New Testament Christians have become the dwelling place of God because Jesus gave us His Spirit to live within us. 

We still have sanctuaries where we all gather, but the spirit of God no longer needs a special building to dwell in. Today he has his church which are the believers in His son Jesus. We are the Holy tabernacle of God. When we gather, wherever we gather, we bring the Holiness of God...or not, to our meetings and gatherings. 

This Sunday at 8:45am PCF will be leading worship at Glik Park located on East Lake Drive in Edwardsville. There are picnic tables available that will seat about 60 people but it may be a good idea to bring a lawn chair if it is easy for you to do so. This week I will be looking at some New Testament Scriptures on the purpose of todays church which will flow right into our guest speaker Katie Junge. Katie is the manager of the Shoe Carnival store here in Edwardsville and she is going to be sharing some heart warming stories about the kids who came in for their Easter Shoes that we sponsored this year for our lunch kids. We gave out 50, $100.00 shoe certificates to the kids that Faye Heuchert and her crew fed every weekend during the school year. Katie said she just had to come and share some of the stories with those who made this wonderful gift possible. That would be all of you! 

Glik Park is a wonderful place to be with God. I love when we have our gatherings there. We are going to have special prayer time for our family members in need and a couple of songs from Matt and Anna and a special outdoor communion. I am looking forward to seeing and visiting with everyone. 

Ever since God created this Earth and man, He has wanted to live with us. To be an intimate part of our daily lives. Ever since we were cast out of the Garden of Eden where we walked daily with God, God has been trying to maintain a relationship with us. In the Old Testament we read in Exodus that God longed to dwell among us. 

Exodus 29:44-46

 “So I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar and will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests. 45 Then I will dwell among the Israelites and be their God. 46 They will know that I am the Lord their God, who brought them out of Egypt so that I might dwell among them. I am the Lord their God.

In the New testament God so longed to dwell with us that He became one of us and lived among us as a man. He was called Jesus. The Bible says that God does not change, that he is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. His longing to dwell among us continues. 

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

The peace you long for will greatly increase when you begin walking daily with God. 

News:

I was sad to learn that Dr. Phil McKinney passed away last night after a battle with cancer. Please pray for Jane and their family.

Prayer needs or pastoral needs please call the church office at 618-656-4648. 

Love, pastor kent