From the Pulpit...

Tonight, we held our annual business meeting. In addition to handling matters of reporting and planning for 2020, we had a prayer time and a short message from Pastor Postiff. The text for the message was drawn from Acts 14. Pastor Postiff encouraged the church to continue in faithfulness and to abound more and more in it. After that, we prayed for members, ministries, and missionaries. This takes the listener up to the last minute of the message. There is a pause in the audio where we prayed for over a half an hour. In the last minute of the message, then, Pastor concludes the prayer time by showing how we illustrated an important point: prayer is the business of the church. It is not just budgets and planning, reports and goals, but prayer has to be a central aspect of the church work.