Friday, June 11, 2010

May God Give Us His Heart for the World!

What a week H4W 2010 was!  

The folks of FBC have been spending themselves throughout Williamsburg and Paducah—showing the love of Christ and ministering to others.

Check out the many photos from the week by viewing the posts below.

We’ve sought to make a difference in others through our actions, but God is the One who has made the difference in us.  Indeed, God is creating a Heart for the World in us!  Heart for the World has been a week of intensive efforts, but we realize that Heart for the World is not just a special emphasis to be observed at particular times throughout the year.  On the contrary, a heart for the world is something we want to live with on a 24/7 basis—at home, at church, at Walmart, at the baseball field…literally everywhere!

My prayer is that the faith family called First Baptist Church would indeed be a people who live everyday with a heart for the world.  I pray that we would be a people who truly live out the words that are emblazoned on the glass doors around the church—“loving God, loving people.” 

H4W 2011 will take place at Orphanage Emmanuel in Guaimaca, Honduras—the place where over 50 people served last year.  

Again, we will work hard serving the people of the orphanage, and we will worship our great God together.  H4W 2011 will take place April 2-8.  In days to come you will hear more about how you can get involved.

In the meantime, may God continue to grant us all his Heart for the World—and may that heart be evident in the way we live our everyday lives!

“And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all you heart and with all your would and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (Matthew 22:37-39).

Pastor Todd

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