Happy May Heritage Church Family!
This is a major month for us as Heritage Church. As you know, on May 7th we are disaffiliating from the United Methodist Church and joining the Global Methodist Church. While we treasure the almost forty years of ministry this church has done in the UMC, it is our belief that the Holy Spirit has led us into this decision of carrying the torch of revival in the Methodist movement forward in the GMC and we greatly anticipate the ministry that is to come! In doing this, we are remaining faithful to the authority and supremacy of scripture and to the conviction that God calls us to lives of transformation and holiness while also always offering radical grace to any who would come. Our great hope is that we may walk the narrow road of Jesus: living lives of transformation, speaking unyielding truth, while also offering deep, overflowing mercy, and lives of service and love to all. Church, if we keep our eyes on Jesus,
we will accomplish His mission, no matter what denomination we belong to! However, it is our belief that moving to the GMC will enable our church to embody Jesus’ mission all the more and see His Kingdom come and will be done in our community as it is in heaven!
As we move into the GMC, I am inviting everyone within the Heritage Church family to renew their commitment to BE THE CHURCH: to live lives that are being transformed and are seeking to transform the community and that dive deep into discipleship through belonging to on another, becoming like Jesus, and blessing the world around us. Perhaps you have grown familiar with these words I am using, but this is the time for them to become more than a sentence you say, but rather a LIFE THAT YOU LIVE. Therefore, on May 21st we are going to have a Dedication and Graduation Sunday. On this Sunday we will celebrate the graduation of William Benson from Enterprise High School, but also we will take this day to rededicate ourselves to God’s work and renew our vows as members of Heritage Church. We invite you to come this Sunday and bring your family as well! After this service we will share a celebration lunch together and also dedicate our newly renovated youth building! You won’t want to miss it!
Finally, on May 21st, I will be announcing a summer of prayer and fasting for revival in our church, within the Methodist movement, and for God’s direction for Heritage to be what He longs for it to be. Therefore, I am asking every member of Heritage to consider undertaking a fast of some kind this summer and to commit to daily prayer for our church and for God’s will to be done through us. In addition, we will have summer prayer meetings up at the church at 5pm on Sunday evenings starting on May 28th that will last through the summer. Come press into the presence of God with us as we seek His face for His church and this community around us!
I am so excited about what is happening at Heritage and I invite you to come, get engaged, and to CATCH FIRE….that is: let the Holy Spirit burn brightly in you and see what God does this summer as you and we together surrender completely to his will and work in and through us!! I love you guys and have a great May!
Patrick
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