Hello friends and family.  I pray this finds you well and that you all blessed your mothers in whatever way you could yesterday.  We had a good time at church celebrating together, but we missed the ones who couldn’t be with us.  Many were out celebrating with their own families though, and that’s a good thing.

Next Sunday is Pentecost Sunday.  We celebrate it seven weeks after Resurrection Sunday.  When Pastor David made a point of the day, I thought maybe he wanted me to stick to the theme, but I think I misunderstood.  However when I started to look into the significance of Pentecost I was overjoyed to see how it was that God fit everything together so that we would have no doubt that Jesus is the promised messiah and His Holy Spirit the sign of our relationship with Him.  We’ll read from the second chapter of Acts and explore what it means for us today.  I’m excited to share it with you and I hope you will come and be blessed!

What a special Day Sunday will be. As we celebrate Mother's day we have the chance to tell this very special lady how much we love them. I hope your Mother is still alive and you are able to make her feel special.  Mother's are not perfect, nor or Father's but I pray that you can have that special relationship that only exists between a parent and a child.

This week I am going to finish up in the Gospel of John and I am going to read from my favorite chapter, John 14: vs 15-31. On this special day I want to show us how much Jesus is like our Mothers.  I know we call God our heavenly Father, but there is something in God that are all about Mother's.  In these few versus we are going to see what a comfort Jesus is to his disciples.  Who is more comforting than a Mother? I am very excited to bring this message this week and I hope you and your family will be with us on this special day.

I hope you will spend some time with your Mother's this weekend.  I wish I still had a Mother around but I have Ruth that is like my Mother, I have a terrific wife and so many wonderful friends and family members.  I am truly blessed.  I hope you are blessed as well.  If you want to feel that kind of love join us every Sunday at BBT!  Please keep spreading the word and remember you are not alone you have Christ in you and you are powerful beyond your wildest dreams.  Do great things and I will see you on Sunday.  Have a great Mothers day to all the Mothers everywhere!!!

We love you so much

Pastor David & Pris

We had a great day in Church last week; it was a short service but good one.  I enjoyed the time I got to spend with you and I am looking forward to seeing you again this week.  Pris was sorry she was not able to be there to teach the Sunday School but she is feeling better now and hopes to be back in church on Sunday.  I hope you will be with us as we start off the month of May.

This week I am staying in the Gospel of John I will be in John 5 Vs 1-9.  This is the story of man who had an infirmity for 38 years.  Jesus saw the man and asked him “Do you want to be made whole?”  What a question, that was what he wanted more than anything in life and now Jesus was offering it to him.  This man had given up because he had no help.  But Jesus shows he was his help, he was the one that could heal him.  He was all he needed.  I am going to talk this week about hearing God.  Sometimes we feel we have no help and we have no hope, just like this man felt.  I want you to know you do have hope because the same Jesus this healed this man is the same Jesus we serve today.  We have to be able to hear him.  Not only does God want to speak to us he wants to speak through us.  We talked last week about “See something, Say something, Do something, Be something.” That is what God wants us to do.  When God speaks to us through other people, or maybe in our dreams, or the words to a song, or through the scripture or if it is just a thought that comes into your head, God wants you to hear him.  Sometimes he is speaking to encourage you,  to give you strength; sometimes he speaks to have you give his message to another.  What ever he has for you, you need to hear it.  I hope you will be in church on Sunday and see what God has for you.  He always shows up he is waiting on you.

Thank you for all your prayers this week for Pris, she really does appreciate them.  We all need the prayers of others.  We all need help and we all need to be helpers.  We all can hear from God.  We all have a purpose and we all have a job to do. Sometimes it is to encourage others sometimes it is to be encouraged by someone else.  We need each other.  We need to love others as Christ loves us.  I hope you have a great week. I hope you get to pray for someone this week and I hope someone will pray for you this week.  Do great things in the name of Jesus and we will see you on Sunday!

We love you so much

Pastor David & Pris

What a great time we had last week in church at BBT.  Larry and Linda led us in Sunday school and in the worship service.  It was really encouraging to see that we are not the only people struggling with problems and unanswered questions.  I hope you will put in to practice the art of being an encourager. It is important to try and lift the spirits of others because I promise you, if you take the focus off of yourself you will see that you really are truly blessed and you have a lot to give.

I hope to continue this train of thought this week as we look back at the Gospel of John  the 13Th chapter starting in the 31st verse and going through verse 35.  Jesus had just had the last supper with his disciples and had washed their  feet.  He had sent Judas to go do what he must do and now in these verses Jesus is telling them what he wants them to do when he is gone.  He says it is a new commandment, it will separate you from everybody else.  Isn't that what we want in life, not just be part of the group but something different, something special.  Jesus says I love you, now I want you to Love other people. Follow my example, do what I do, and if you do this people will know who you are and who you serve.  It is important for us to stand out.  Not so the world will look at us and say how great we are, but how great is he that we serve.  We should not be satisfied with just sitting back and blending in.  The way to stand out is the stand up. If you see something then say something then do something then you can be something.  I hope you will be in church this week and lets see something, say something, do something and be something.

Remember those mentioned in our prayer request last week.  One of the ways we love someone is to pray for them.  We may not have a lot of earthly resources but we have the power of Jesus living inside of us and with him nothing is impossible. Love your family and friends today like you may never get to see them again and reach out to a stranger and make a difference in another person's life.  You have the ability to do it, just choose it.  We are excited to see you on Sunday and share what we have.  May God bless you this week and may his grace and mercy go with you!

We love you so much!!!!

Pastor David & Pris