Announcements

Dates to Keep Open:

Sunday, March 15: pot luck dinner after service.

Saturday, April 4, 2:00-4:00 p.m.: Movie time! We'll be watching the movie "Expelled," and discussing it afterward. More information to follow.

The Grand Orchestration

We've been studying the gifts that God has given to the church: apostles, prophets, pastors, and teachers. The reason God has given these gifts to the church is to prepare God's people for works of service.

This brings a question: Who is to do the work? We do! Jesus has determined that the way to build His Church is to have leadership with those gifts so that we can all grow in unity and do the works of service.

This might sound like an oxymoron, but there is diversity in unity. Think of it--the hand is quite different from the ear, yet both are part of the same body, working together in unity. We all shouldn't try to look alike or do the same things. There is diversity within the unity of Christ's body.

It's like a symphony orchestra. The violin is not like the French horn. One shouldn't take the music for the French horn and try to make the violinist play it. Each plays his own unique part, and all works together to create a beautiful symphony under the leadership of the conductor.

Christ is our conductor. He knows the musical score and how it should sound. Only by following Him will our lives meld into the grand orchestration God has written.

Prayer Requests

• Pray for Nancy as she is gone through February and March visiting her mother.
• Pray for Doug as he ministers in Pakistan
• Pray for the Greene County jail. God's Spirit is working there, but there is opposition. Satan is working overtime as there are people there who practice witchcraft.

Theresa Cappadona & Steve Myers

Steve's Story:

Even as a kid, I remember being depressed. When I was 12, I started doing drugs and drinking. I didn't stop until I was 45 years old. At that time, I went to the addiction center and AA. I became clean, but I was still depressed and suicidal. I couldn't even hold my head up.

Then I turned my life over to God. I raised my head and started living. I felt like a newborn baby. Until then I knew nothing about love, joy, or happiness. About six months later I went to Praise Assembly, and I never looked back.

One night I asked God if He willed for me to have a companion. For the next two weeks, it seemed that everywhere I went, Theresa was there.

Theresa's Story:

I knew God as a child, but as a teenager and young adult I put Him on the back burner. In 1997 I had a spiritual awakening and was filled with the Spirit, but it grew with weeds and was strangled. In 2004 I felt God calling to my heart, so I started seeking Him from church to church. I finally found Praise Assembly in June 2007. When I walked in, I knew I was home.

I still had so much to learn. I started reading the Word and obeying it. My heart was changing--I no longer wanted to do things that didn't please my Lord. I started spending more and more time at church.

If it were God's will, I was ready to live the rest of my life like Paul--single and for the Lord. Then God revealed in a dream that I would have a God-loving man in my life. God even showed me the man's face. I saw that man at church. We were in Sunday school together. He was quiet and shy, and so I never said anything.

Then in October of 2008, that man approached me and asked if I wanted to hang out together and get to know each other better. I said yes.

Steve and I will be obedient unto the Lord and wait, and perhaps one day, if it is the Lord's will, we will marry.

I love my Lord and praise Him with all my heart and soul, and give thanks every day for my salvation.