Proclaiming Christ to the Nations!

Just a quick post to give thanks the Lord for the way He is working in our church. In order to better reach the multi-ethnic community in which we're planted, the Lord has allowed us to have eight language congregations meeting for worship on our campus, in addition to the main (English speaking) congregation. We see ourselves as one church, with all the Pastors meeting regularly each week for prayer and encouragement (being a part of those meetings is a great blessing); occasionally we have a combined worship service with all 9 congregations meeting together, which we did tonight. Each Pastor leads a portion of the service - such as a time of prayer or Scripture reading, in English and also in his native language.

The congregations are: English, Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Ethiopian, Asian-Indian, and Bhutanese (these last two are Hindi-speaking). It's a small, but glorious, taste of what heaven will be like, with every tribe and tongue around the throne!

Praising God for His Goodness,
David

Ps 2:8'Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.

Thought I should be more accurate in the first line of my original post ..... it is His church (the Lord's), not ours :-).

David

That is great. The church I attend, while we don't have as many different language services, is very multicultural. It is encourging today, especially with all the negativity in the news and charges of racism and bigotry abounding, to be able to stand with all peoples under the common banner of Christ.

hi, how refreshing to read something that is positive about the local church. (it drives me crazy to read the negative) i live in a city with many great churches in it and most of us are in close fellowship with each other praying and giving and preaching for revival. if we get the six hundred thousand saved in the area we would need many more churches...jimp