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Abundant Part 1 Series
Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Jan 11, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: The Scriptures teach and preach that the “Abundant Life” is a continual process of learning, growing, connecting, maturing, and practicing, as well as failing, recovering, enduring, adjusting, and overcoming
Opening Video Illustration: Celebration of Life Video!
Things to celebrate in 2022:
Our school ministering to 190 kids investing in their academics and spiritual growth.
• School Christmas Musical reaching over 600 people in two nights.
Our Kids ministry ministering to over 100 children throughout the year through the following kid’s ministry:
• Kids church
• Preschool church
• Kids club
• Wacky Wednesday
• Trunk or Treat which reached over a 1,200 people in our community.
Our Youth camp last summer reaching around a140 kids and youth.
KOZ kicking off and ministering to boys 8 and up – on a monthly basis they are reaching15-20 boys a month.
Our Youth group ministering to around 40 different kids throughout the year on Wednesday night.
The good Samaritan Operation Christmas Child Christmas boxes which totaled over 150 shoe boxes made and given for kids overseas.
All of our outreaches to the community:
• Thanksgiving back – 35 meals for people in need
• Christmas blessings – presents for 15 families
• Phil’s friends (Ministry to Cancer patients bringing hope and encouragement).
Pursue Kingdom Ministry kicking back off in Sept.
Christian Life College Courses will be offered on site from CHC in fall.
The many answered prayers!
The blessing of many healings in our congregation
The blessing of financial blessings within the congregation for families and businesses.
The salvation of many lives and people finding freedom in Christ.
Missionary fruit:
Tony Simon – church plant going amazing – two ne plants in outskirt villages, after school program
Great commission Media Ministry in Ukraine – Dave Ogren
Jon Erickson – new clinics
These are just a few things we are celebrating!
We also wanted to celebrate the life of these new born blessings to the Christian Hills Family in 2022 and remind ourselves why we should be driven by eternity. It’s to implant into these new lives the love, grace and the teachings of Jesus. It’s the commitment to disciple and mentor the next generation. We are to commit and invest into these young lives so as to make a difference for eternity.
Scripture: Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. – Proverbs 22:6
Parents are children’s first teachers and I believe the church should assist in helping parents raise their children in the way of Jesus. If you look around, we find a world full of temptations. The truth is - If we don’t guide our children to choose the right path in life, they will easily walk the wrong path and miss out on the Abundant life promised by Jesus.
For those of you with a young child now is the time to guide them and invest into them the truth of Scripture and Jesus.
Your child will grow up and leave you one day. So how can we make sure they won’t be influenced by the unhealthy culture and practices in our society?
In John 8:12, Jesus again said, “I am the light of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
God’s word is the truth, the way, and the life. We won’t fall into darkness once we practice Jesus’ words. So, if we bring our children before God and train them up according to His requirements, our children will understand what they should do and not do. Many times, people walk down the wrong path because they don’t know how to tell the difference between the truth and lies. If we teach our children to fear God and shun evil, they will gradually possess the capacity to discriminate as they are growing up. Thus, we don’t worry whether or not our children will be deceived or walk the wrong path even though we are not at their side.
So, let’s re-commit this year to create a church and school which is discipling and mentoring these young lives for the Kingdom of Heaven.
Highlight the handout of the top 10 questions to review the spiritual year 2022 and plan for 2023 in setting spiritual goals. See handout!
New Year Theme: Abundant 2023
Tag line: Living Abundantly, Growing in Christ, and Walking in Freedom
Thesis: If we really want to invest in these young lives at CHC and raise up a generation of goldy children then we ourselves need to be modeling the “Abundant Life” to our children, we need to be growing in our relationship with Jesus everyday, and we need to be walking in the freedom of the Holy Spirit.
Key verse: John 10:10
John 10:7- 11: NASB
7So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
8“All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
