First Fruits Offering

On Sunday, April 17th, we will have our celebration Sunday. We will be having one service and we have rented the Elk's Lodge on 5th street to house the crowd. Church will start at 10:00 a.m. We will worship, there will be a message, and we will be receiving our first fruits offering and making our faith-promise or capital campaign pledges that morning. Then we will receive a first fruits offering. Following worship we will be serving the entire church lunch.

What is a first fruits offering? It is the first offering that we will commit to the capital campaign. I believe that we may receive a large percentage of our total goal on that morning! What an exciting way to begin reaching four our goal.

I want to encourage you to be praying and preparing for celebration Sunday. Begin to ask God what he wants your faith promise to be. Second, ask God what he desires for you to do with the first fruits offering. You need to be praying about this because we are not going to tell you what you should give. You also need to pray because we are not going to harass you about turning in your faith promise pledge, that is between you and God. You need to obey the Lord's direction. I have already been saving money for my first fruits offering so that I will be able to give my very best to the Lord. I am praying that he will increase that amount!