Thursday March 7, 2013

 

 

Sunday Worship

Ephrata Church of the Nazarene

March 3

 

 

After a good nights sleep we were back at the Nazarene church on Sunday morning.

 

 

 

 

Cerwin turned on the generator so the chapel would be warm for visitors.

 

 

Worship inside the church began at 9:00 a.m.

 

 

Guest speaker was Reverend Philip Park who grew up in Korea and accepted Christ as his savior in a Nazarene youth camp.

 

 

He was thirteen years old when Billy Graham was in Seoul, Korea, in 1973. That is where he dedicated his life to being a missionary.

 

 

Today, after serving in many Asian countries, he is President of Asian American Ministries, Inc., and serves in Flushing, New York, (the north-central region of the New York City borough of Queens) an area where he said there are 180 language groups.

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Some notes I took during his challenging message:

Love means to take responsibility

True worship means God must increase and you must decrease. This is a problem in many churches. People think they need to increase.

A key word to missionary work is “surrender.”

Connect – Communicate – Contextualize

If you want to share the gospel with any people group, you must demonstrate a deep love and respect for them.

 

 

Sunday school followed the worship service. During this time people were encouraged to visit the chapel, and many did.

 

 

We spent the next hour and a half visiting with members of the church and answering many questions about TFC’s ministry to truckers.

 

 

After lunch – brought by members – in the church cafe, I went outside to capture a good picture of the chapel and the church.

 

 

 

 

They felt the best place for us to park was next to the cafe – and it did turn out to be a good spot.

 

 

It was about 1:30 p.m. when Bunny and Cerwin took down the steps and we were ready to head home.

 

 

 

 

One of the blessings of being part of the TFC team who takes a promotional chapel to local churches, is meeting other Christians and getting inside the walls of many churches.

 

 

This worship experience is one we will remember for a long time because of the challenge of missions on Saturday and Sunday – and the warm, caring church family here.