3rd Anniversary Service in Las Palmas

3 years already! Can you believe it? And we celebrated three years of meeting together as a church this past Sunday. It was a great service!

Rod did a great job leading the service, guitar in hand. He started with our Bible reading of the day (Psalm 119:57-64). Several people shared their thoughts on the passage.

Then we had some worship music, interspersed with testimonies from various people (see above). The focus was on the local church – how has the local church been a blessing to you? But of course it “digressed” into general praising of God and what He has been doing! (Just kidding – it wasn’t a digression, it was the main point!)

We watched a video that Rod had put together of moments from the past year (and what a year it has been!). Then – cake!

We had some time to chat and pray and eat cake, and then back to the service. More testimonies. And then I led the time of communion, talking about God as our “portion” as it says in our Bible reading of the day, and also Psalm 16.

And we had a special speaker on Sunday – Antonio Muñoz (who also helped teach the hermeneutics class on Saturday). We first got to know Antonio way back in … well, never mind how long ago. Let’s just say before any of us were married!

Anyway, it was a challenging and encouraging sermon from 1 Thessalonians 1:2-10.

Then we closed our service in prayer.

It was so encouraging to hear how God has worked through this church in the lives of so many people. And we all got to take part in the service – Nathanael running the PowerPoint, and Shari cutting the cake!

We were in a different building from last week, and will be on an entirely different property next week. But hey, we’re pilgrims and we know it! At least God knows where to find us (even if occasionally people trying to come to the service get confused).

Thanks to so many of you who have had a part in the planting of this young church. May God continue to work “in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen!” (Hebrews 13:21)