All Saints at New Wine

"All Hallows Eve", the night before "All Saints Day", is my least favorite time of the year.  So many of the Christian Feasts celebrate significant events in the life of Christ or the Church.   It would be so typical of our fallen nature that a worldly way of thinking would begin to twist something good -  "remembering the lives of faithful people who have gone before" - to something dark and even frightful and at times down right gruesome.   This fall at New Wine we have chosen to sit at the feet of saints and ask "how did they draw near to the Lord?"    Based on a book Longing For God we focused on 7 different saints.  (check out the audio sermons page at www.NewWineMission.com )  This day we truly celebrate the saints that have gone before and still teach us today.

Now we turn our sights to mission outreach and deeds of kindness and service.  Join us November 7 when we host 2 dinners at Taekens Terrace in Davison and Roxbury Court in Clio and then watch Billy Graham's last national sermon.  Call (810) 659-0432 for more information.    Our Flushing Cell group is collecting (till the end of the year) extra tubes of toothpaste for needy people in our community.  But I was reminded of the hands on outreach of the food and clothes closet that we help support when I dropped in on the FCOC last week and found several of our cell group members hard at work serving the needy of our community.  FCOC (Flushing Christian Outreach Center) served more than 149 families which is over 404 individuals in the last reported month. 

So as we look ahead, we are thinking and praying for the Family, Friends and Neighbors (FFN's) the Lord is putting in our lives this holiday season.   We are asking "For the sake of the kingdom,  how will we love more, serve more and be in the Word more?"  This was the challenge brought to us in our last listening day this Fall.  Pray we do not just listen but do what the Lord is calling us to do as we end 2013.