Greetings and Merry Christmas to you,
With just days left before we celebrate one of the greatest moments, certainly the greatest birth, to ever happen in history! Most of creation – knowingly or unknowingly – are celebrating the arrival of Mankind’s Hero, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
I hope and pray that your home is filled with the anticipated arrival of the joy we remember so long ago; Emmanuel – God with us! Through God’s great love for you and me, He has sent us His most-precious of gifts, our Messiah-Savior. And because He did, we can be forgiven of our sins, and brought together – united - with our Heavenly Father – our Creator – forevermore.
Hallelujah for this indescribable Gift!
There’s just nothing as wonderful in all of humanity and this weekend – together – we have the opportunity of lifting our praise and worship to The One who made it all possible! We will celebrate our Christmas Candlelight Service all weekend and we’ve even added an additional service to meet the demand in our existing space.
Saturday @ 5pm
Sunday @ 8AM, 9:30AM, 11AM, and 12:30PM
I hope to see you at one of them! Jesus is born!
Next week we will begin promoting our Adult Bible Studies which begin in January. I encourage you to check the dates and times for the Men’s and Women’s classes and register online beginning next weekend. This is a great way to meet other people and keep the small church feel going forward into our new building.
And speaking of our new building, just four weeks ago I provided an update on our giving to The Restored Life Center @ RCC construction project out front and invited people to make a year-end – tax deductible – gift to the Lord’s work. Back then we were at $2,671,923 in total gifts towards the building. So many of you have given sacrificially and joyfully, and today we are now at $2,815,229!! Our current goal is $3M so we are just $146,195 away from the mark! If you’ve been waiting, or haven’t had the opportunity to give yet, please consider making a gift soon as checks need to be in on – or before- December 31st for the 2023 tax year.
God is so very good to our church here in Idaho and He has big plans for us in the coming year! Debbie and I are so blessed to be a part of what The Lord’s doing through our RCC Forever Family and we want you to know that we love you and pray for you regularly. We truly believe our best days down here lie ahead and we’re so glad to be on this amazing journey with you!
Merry Christmas to you and yours’,
Pastor Ben and Debbie