Fresh Start

Thank you FAC for standing strong in 2011. Thank you for representing Jesus at home and in your community. Thank you for honoring His Name and standing in awe of Him (Malachi 2:5). I am currently working through a small group devotional on the book of Malachi and find myself compelled by God's challenge to the priests to walk in deep reverence before Him. True worship, true service, real ministry flows out of a right attitude, a true fear of God. Live in awe of Him and it will spill over into every part of life. I look forward (with a deep awareness of my own personal and spiritual vulnerability) to see how this lives out in my life and in our Church community in 2012.

We start new and fresh in 2012. Kris Gerow begins his ministry as Youth Director January 4th. Elise Bacon begins also in January as assistant to Lera in our children's ministry. Elise comes with a degree from Bryan College in Music and Christian Ministry. She will also be working part time at Trimont Christian Academy. Welcome Elise to the staff of FAC! Below is a listing of our staff so you can be in prayer for us in 2012:

Senior Pastor: Mitch Schultz

Director of Worship: Dr. James Cascarelle

Director of Youth Ministry: Kris Gerow

Director of Children's Ministry: Lera Hesselbirg

Assistant to Children's Ministry: Elise Bacon

Bookkeep/Treasurer: Don Swanson

I sure look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday

Pastor mitch

Mitch Schultz

828-371-3589

http://mitchandreschultz.blogspot.com

Fresh Start

Thank you FAC for standing strong in 2011. Thank you for representing Jesus at home and in your community. Thank you for honoring His Name and standing in awe of Him (Malachi 2:5). I am currently working through a small group devotional on the book of Malachi and find myself compelled by God's challenge to the priests to walk in deep reverence before Him. True worship, true service, real ministry flows out of a right attitude, a true fear of God. Live in awe of Him and it will spill over into every part of life. I look forward (with a deep awareness of my own personal and spiritual vulnerability) to see how this lives out in my life and in our Church community in 2012.

We start new and fresh in 2012. Kris Gerow begins his ministry as Youth Director January 4th. Elise Bacon begins also in January as assistant to Lera in our children's ministry. Elise comes with a degree from Bryan College in Music and Christian Ministry. She will also be working part time at Trimont Christian Academy. Welcome Elise to the staff of FAC! Below is a listing of our staff so you can be in prayer for us in 2012:

Senior Pastor: Mitch Schultz

Director of Worship: Dr. James Cascarelle

Director of Youth Ministry: Kris Gerow

Director of Children's Ministry: Lera Hesselbirg

Assistant to Children's Ministry: Elise Bacon

Bookkeep/Treasurer: Don Swanson

I sure look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday

Pastor mitch

Mitch Schultz

828-371-3589

http://mitchandreschultz.blogspot.com

There Are Two Things Going On

There is always more going on than what you see. That is where faith comes in. Joseph and Mary were ordered by Caesar to go to Bethlehem, only because he was looking to enlarge his already inflated ego by taking a census of his already too big empire. Behind the scenes however, something bigger was going on. Someone else was pulling the strings. A grander purpose was being carried out and suddenly, next to God's grand scheme, Caesar looks so small. Its good to get in the habit whenever something you don't like happens, (like when Caesar tells you to travel 75 miles to Bethlehem when you are pregnant and all you have is a donkey to travel on), to immediately assume God has something bigger in mind. This weeks' sermon from Luke 2:1-7 is entitled "There Are Two Things Going On". What we see, what seems, contrast with what actually is, can actually be exciting.

GOD DOES HIS OWN THING

This Sunday I will be looking at Matthew 2:1-9 and the topic of my sermon is GOD DOES HIS OWN THING. Someone commented this morning (cynically I might add) that we should have two different seasons to celebrate Christmas. One to quench that insatiable lust for stuff and the other to purely honor the birth of our savior. Its hard to do both at the same time, isn't it? God did not try to fit Jesus into the materialistic sin sick muck of our world. What he did was so other than the world. What he did was upsetting to the world. It challenged the world and confronted those in the world and gave men and women a choice. People like Herod looked for ways to kill him, but then you had "kings from the east" who gave up everything worldly because they could not wait to bow down to him. Really, when it comes down to it, you can't have Jesus and all this. We have quiet a choice to make.

I sure look forward to worshipping with you this Sunday.

Pastor Mitch