Immanuel Baptist Church

Homecoming is almost here! Homecoming, coming home, as we look for those with roots at Immanuel to join with us once more for worship and celebration and lifting up God in his Word. What we will do is an echo of a much greater event we look forward to at the coming of Christ. The glorious homecoming of the saints as we finally leave our pilgrim land and go to the place that has been prepared for us, surrounding the throne of God in Heaven and joining together to celebrate forever the good things of the Lord.

What we do this coming Sunday is celebration. It is a recognition of God’s glorious work in the last 109 years of our history. Our history is what it is because of the strength of God’s hand at work through us. As I wrote last week, his work continues. He is still active and he is still raising up people to faithfully follow and serve him.

Many of those servants are raised up to go on the mission field, serving in places with names like Puntarenas, Shinyanga, Kalanga, Taipei, and Panama City. The fruit of their work demonstrates the ongoing work of God to bring people to himself from around the world. But these workers need support and this year the International Mission Board has not received enough money to send all those ready to go to the mission field.

As part of our celebration of God’s work we will be taking up a special offering to support the International Mission Board. Many of you already give generously to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions but we want to take another opportunity to support the work of these missionaries. Please consider making a contribution to this special offering in addition to your regular offering.