Homecoming!

This week we are preparing for our 158th Anniversary Celebration that we are calling a Homecoming.  We are very excited to see friends and family from years gone by as well as get a chance to welcome guests and new folks in the community!

It's funny, because we will gather in a tent outside of our church building due to space (gathering at 10:30am for Worship if you were wondering).  So we are actually celebrating Homecoming with more meager comforts that our normal worship gathering.

Did you know there is a Homecoming in the future of every follower of Jesus that will be very little like this?  It will be an event of perfection and joy...an event of immaculate preparation...

Yet, our preparation for that day of Homecoming when we meet Jesus should be even more diligently prepared for!  We should spend much energy making sure that day is met with this greeting from our Lord - 'Well done, good and faithful servant'.

Many tell me that they have a bit of fear about the day when we meet the Lord face to face.  They are concerned with their destination or with what their life will have earned them.  Here is a verse for you if you feel this way - 'For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord'. (Romans 8:38-39 ESV)

See you at Homecoming this weekend at Pilgrims Rest and then I hope to see you at Homecoming that day when this world passes away and our new life begins in the New Heaven and New Earth!