Worship right now!

Learn to worship God at all times. I find this to be life changing. I can worship God while having my morning coffee, mowing, going out to eat, having a glass of wine or a beer with friends, at the store, while getting gas, while at work, you get the picture.

God is why I have this life. God is why I can see, and hear….although not that well anymore…and taste and feel. God made me to worship Him.

Let's start right now. How? By thinking about Him and being grateful. Thank Him, talk to Him. Listen to Him.

It's another way to making your life "amazing!"

See you Sunday, Fathers Day.  Love, pastor kent

Change Your Life Into Amazing Right Now!

One of the reasons I became a believer is because I "experimented" with things that the bible teaches and I found much peace.

Here is something simple to try that will begin changing your life into amazing. Smile more when you are with people. There is amazing power in a happy face. Practice it and see what happens!

Proverbs 15:30The cheerful look of a messenger brings joy to your heart  and good news gives health to your body.

As Christians, we are all messengers! What message is being broadcast by your face?

This coming Sunday is fathers day! Come join PCF and Immanuel Methodist at 9:00 am. I will be giving the message and the PCF Praise team will be singing with happy faces!

See you Sunday! Love, pastor kent

Change Your Life Into Amazing….Right Now

 Just as a review from a couple of days ago, I started thinking about things in my life that I can change that would make not only my life better, but also the lives of all those who I interact with. I am focusing on things in my control. We started with never talking negative about anyone, ever!

Today I want to teach you a very powerful three word prayer. A prayer that is necessary to help you on your walk to becoming amazing. Maybe I should be saying,  "Becoming more amazing than you already are!"

The three word prayer: "Change me Lord!"

We need God's power to help us make the changes necessary to become Amazing!

Our prayer list:
Stan Rutkowski
Mary Knapp
Bob Heuchert   We are asking for healing for all three.  Prayer is powerful!

News: I spoke with Faye Heuchert this morning and she informed me that our church is feeding about 90 kids every day through the SAKS program. This is really amazing. Faye said she could use more volunteers to help distribute the lunches. If you could spare an hour here and there please contact Faye Heuchert.

Pray for one another with a heart filled with love!  See you soon! Love, pastor kent
 

Special Message from Pastor Kent

I want to address our new arrangement with Immanuel Methodist because I feel as if there is still some confusion. First, we are not becoming Methodists, and Immanuel Methodist are not becoming Praise Community Fellowshipers (you like that word?). We are trying something very unique. We are two separate churches coming together to worship at the same service. Pastor Jackie and I meet regularly and talk about how to make this work for both congregations. Originally, when I first brought this to the board, I said that we would have the 2nd and 4th Sunday's and Immanuel would do the 1st and third Sundays. But when Jackie and I sat down to develop the schedule there were some things that were already on their schedule that kept this from working perfectly. This coming Sunday is an example. This is the Immanuel Methodist Youth Sunday. The youth will be doing the entire service.
June 21st, which is fathers day, I will be giving the message and our praise band will be providing the music. Pastor Jackie and I met this morning and have decided we will be both participating in "all "the services with one of us giving the sermon about every other week.

Why are we doing this?   There are several reasons.

1.) Our attendance drops in the summer as does Immanuel Methodist.
2.) Noon in the summer is not exactly a great time to expect people to show up at church.
3.) Bonni and I needed a respite to catch a breath as we move forward. I have addressed this in previous blogs.
4.) You get the wonderful diversity and opportunity  of hearing someone other than me every Sunday.
5.) There is synergy when the church has more people in it.
6.) I believe, as does Pastor Jackie, that together our congregations can do some great things together. We are already doing that with the SAKS program.
7.) Bonni and I have some traveling scheduled this summer and there will always be a pastor available in my absence or in Pastor Jackies absence.
8.) We are again breaking new territory with this arrangement. Two different congregations coming together to worship the same God is awesome! It is much closer to what Jesus wants from all of us, to come together!

So, there is church every Sunday this summer at 9:00 am!  It will be an adventure!  Don't Worry, Be Happy!

See you soon!   Love, pastor kent

Change Your Life for the Better….Right Now!

The reason there has not been a blog update this past week is because Bonni and I were in Florida. Now it is time to get back at it! We attended our new combined service yesterday with Immanuel Methodist at 9:00 am and it was wonderful!  We will continue this arrangement through the summer meeting every Sunday at 9:00 am.

Change Your Life into Amazing……Right Now!
I'm going to start a new series of Blogs with the above title!  I don't know about you but I need a lot of work in a lot of area's. So, while on vacation, I pondered all the things in my life that I have control over that I could change to make this life experience better, happier, more joyful. Then I realized that if I am successful at changing these changeable things, not only would I be making my life experience better, but it would also make other people's life experience much better. I'm talking about the people who have put up with me and interact with me on a regular basis. So my goal is to take control over the things in my life that I need to change, that are changeable.

So here is the first change I am going to be working on. "I will from this moment on not talk negative about anyone!  EVER! Nadda, Nix,  None!" And that begins by not "thinking" negative about anyone.
Let's face it, how can I love everyone as Jesus commanded and then talk negative about someone. Now I know most of you are not guilty of this time consuming, energy consuming, spirit grieving habit, but if you are, then please join me on this life enhancing change! I am starting RIGHT NOW!   Wow, what a relief! I feel better already!

Stay tuned for many more Let's Become Amazing, Right Now Idea's!

Our prayer list:
Stan Rutkowski at Edwardsville Care and Rehab Center for healing.
Mary Knapp for healing of her eyes from surgery!
Bob Heuchert  Brad's brother  for healing after an operation!

Tomorrow

Just a reminder that service tomorrow will be at 12:00 noon. Come and support your PCF family.

Psalm 118:24This is the day the Lord has made;  We will rejoice and be glad in it.

No matter where you go, what you do, what you think, God is there! He see's He hears, He knows, He loves you because you are His child. 

See you soon! Love, pastor kent

Correction

The visitation for Randy's dad is at the Dewey United Methodist Church in Granite City from 1 til 2 pm with a service immediately following. The church is located at 2138 Dewey Ave. Granite City Il.

I incorrectly said the UCC church in my last message.

Pastor kent