By Pastor Tim White

All Things New

I don’t know about you, but I just love to start over again. I remember when Jackie and I were raising our first baby Elise. All the change of raising a new baby was exhausting. Everywhere we went we had to carry a carload of stuff just for a tiny, 8lb baby. Mealtime and nights would be the same for a couple of decades. Our clothes were all marked with baby stains which pushed us out of the “cool” category. Bathing our baby exhausted us both. And all of a sudden, we had to figure out how to be Youth Pastors with a baby. It seemed impossible. Every morning Elise would wake up long before we wanted to get up, and we would hear her yell out with humor and enthusiasm “Daddy…Daddy.” She called everything daddy - Jackie, me, motorcycles, balloons and kitty cats. But Jackie nevertheless would poke me in the gut with her elbow and say, “that’s you, daddy.” Elise was just so excited for each new day.

The Bible says, “Therefore anyone in Christ is a new creation, the old is gone, all things have become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17. This weekend we start a new series of messages on how God can renew our lives, our churches and our nation. And that is God’s plan. So please join us this Sunday at 10:30am in the in-person or online services (Your Tube, Facebook Live or church App) for a message our whole world needs to hear.

Your friend for the rest of my life,

Pastor Tim White