Honorary Service

It is an exciting time at Niles Ferry Baptist Church. The summer brings many things, such as vacations, sports activities, crazy schedules, swimming, fishing, and of course---mission trips. This Saturday our church mission team will head once again to the Gulf Coast in Mississippi to bring ultimately the Gospel message.

Mission trips are hard work and require a lot of patience and flexibility of those who give a week of their time to serve the Lord. Think of the greatness and the mystery in which we, fallen sinners redeemed by God's grace, have the opportunity and priviledge to be used by a holy God in accomplishing His church's mission. If you dwell upon this for any amount of time, the truth becomes overwhelming. Why would God want to use individuals such as us? The answer is simple...it is for our benefit and growth. What an awesome God we serve!

As a pastor I am humbled and grateful for the nearly thirty individuals from my church who are going to be serving in Mississippi. Many of our members will be sacrificing their vacations from work to do the Lord's work. What an awesome offering up to the Lord that is. My encouragement to them is that God will reward them in some way for this act of obedience. I ask your prayers for us as we go. Without question the evil one is not happy with our commitment and obedience in serving this upcoming week. He will try to distract us and keep some from going who need to go. I am elated with the ones who are going. In ministry it seems as if you can get bogged down on getting more people to do things in a never ending attempt to promote trips and bible studies. However, in this case I am humbled by the response of those who wish to serve. We want God's will to be done in all things and we recognize that some are destined to serve on this mission trip and some are destined to serve the mission team by remaining home. To those who are unable to go, please understand that your contribution to the mission trip is as equal to those who are hammering, painting, and doing other type of construction work. Your contribution is through prayer and encouragement.

During our trip, I will keep this blog up to date daily. Hopefully we can post prayer requests, pictures, and even videos so that our progress can be known.

All glory to Him who ransomed my soul
sola fidei, sola scriptura

Jeremy