Since our church has multiple sites, every three or four months we have a joint "Koinonia" service. Yesterday more than 1000 member of the various Iglesia Bautista Vida Nueva sites met together to hear Pastors Julio Contreras and Steve Kern present the 2014 vision for the church and witness the ordination of 24 new deacons.
As you can imagine it is amazing to hear and be a part of more than 1000 voices singing praises to our God. Yesterday's music included "Our God," "Great is Thy Faithfulness," "We Adore You," "In Christ Alone," "The King" and "Praise and Honor." Some of the songs you will recognize, but others were originally written in Spanish.
Pastor Julio presented the 2014 vision for the church, "Expansion3.0," which included:
- Continuing to advance all of the ministries of the church
- Sending a two missionary couples to Bogota to plant a new Vida Nueva church
- Adding additional services at the Lourdes and Apopa sites to accommodate growth
- Remodeling the sanctuary at Miravalle and constructing an anex for the administrative offices
- Offering seminary classes online
- Offering a new cycle of IDEM (discipleship 2) classes
- Searching for God's strategy on how to unify the Miravalle and Crown Plaza sites
- Establishing the program "Love and Respect" to reach married couples for Christ
We also witnessed the ordination of 24 new deacons who were nominated by the church members and approved by the pastors. There were new deacons from each of our four sites (Apopa, Crown Plaza, Lourdes, Miravalle.) What a blessing to see Godly men willing to take on a greater leadership role in the church.
Pastor Steve preached from Acts 11:19-25 focusing on the importance of having the hand of the Lord upon the church/the believer, seeing the grace of God in the life of the church/believer and working with purpose of heart to see people added to the Lord.
It was an awesome service and one typical for a Koinonia (started at 10:00 AM and finished at 12:45 PM.)
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