Receiving New Church Members

Beloved, last Sunday evening, during our service, we were delighted to welcome a new group of brothers and sisters into our church family. We are grateful to God for blessing us with every one of those 35 new members! Today, we want to remind you to notice these new members and show them special attention and love. Below you will find a few practical steps that you can take.

1) Invite them to your home. This is a wonderful way to get to know them, pray together, and perhaps answer any of their questions (1 Pet. 4:9).

2) Ask them about their needs so that you could potentially help where you can or at a minimum begin praying regularly for them. At the bottom of this letter you will find their photos and names.

3) Invite them to your home group. Help them become acquainted with more people.

4) Invite them to your ministry. God has blessed our church with many ministries, and if you invite them and they have a desire and ability to serve, this will become a blessing for all.

5) Whenever you go out for the weekend, invite someone to go along with you. Vacation is a good time to spend with others. This is a relationship.

6) If you yourself need help, humbly ask the new members. We’re all called to serve. Oftentimes it can be more difficult to ask for help, rather than help someone else! Humble yourselves!

7) Start greeting everyone in the church. This is specifically meant for those who consider themselves to be introverted. Begin with a little. You won’t even notice how with time, even simple greetings will lead to substantial discussions.

Remember, these things are not simply good manners or good Christian ethics, they’re a biblical understanding of how to behave in a church:
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.” (Heb. 10:24-25)

A request from elders: Dear Church, if you are sick or know of someone who is sick and cannot attend services and be in fellowship with other believers, please let us know so we can visit them.

Continue supporting the churches working among the people who have suffered from the war in Ukraine:

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing."
1 Corinthians 13:1-3