Grand Prix 2009

Grand Prix 2009. This was the third year we partnered with Colonial Village Baptist to race in the annual Grand Prix. Again it proved to be an amazing time and provided great opportunity for people who are not fimiliar with church to participate and get to know the love of Christ by experiencing it in action. We had 18 cars registered to race through our church and we walked away with 9 metals! Congratulations to Freddy, Jin, Amber, and Randy who won awards for design, and to Michael and Dale who won awards for speed! Pictures of the winnings cars will be published in a continued post.

Enjoy the pictures and watch the video.

Review Video. Check it out!

Day 5 - Lobby Remodel

Day 5 - Crunch Time. This is our last day to work on our project before Sunday. Tomorrow the cleaning crew is coming in and it must be ready for them. The desk frame was made, the countertop secured, clearcoat the oak sill, and get the final trim put on. Once that is done... start reloading the office space with furniture and supplies. Not to mention mount the welcome sign and have the pro's do the carpet.

Day 4 - Lobby Remodel.

Day 4 - Sand the drywall and paint, paint, paint! After hours the pro's came back over and fit our custom desktop and cut our oak sill.

Day 3 - Lobby Remodel

Day 3 - Sand the drywall and mud it again. Wait. Sorry, no fancy pictures here. See day 2; it looks the same.

Day 2 - Lobby Remodel

Day 2. Today we mud the drywall and wait.

Welcome Desk/Lobby Remodel Day 1

Day one is done and we are right on schedule! Check out some of the pictures of our remodel.

A special thanks to our workers who are volunteering their help.

Believe in Yourself; Jesus does.

When did you stop believing in yourself?

As followers of Christ we can sometimes be cinical of the way people always promote self confidence over faith in a "higher power". Humanism is the belief that power comes from within ones self and must be released for one to reach their full potential while faith in God teaches us to reach within ourselves to believe in Him rather than ourselves. If all of this has your head spinning in confusion don't worry, so is mine. However, last week a revelation was given to me in preparation for two youth services. Believing in Jesus is great but if you don't believe in yourself your faith in Jesus if useless.

In Matthew 14.22-33 the record is shared that Jesus is walking on the water with his followers were in a boat. One of the men, Peter, calls out and asks if he can join Jesus. Jesus says "yes" so Peter steps out of the boat and begins to talk on the water! He is actually walking on top of the water! Well... for a moment, then he starts to sink. Why does he sink? Because he starts to doubt. Jesus asks him, "Why did you doubt?" Stop here. If doubt caused Peter to sink, we have to ask our self, who or what did he doubt. Some would be quick to say, "He must have doubted Jesus" but that isn't true because he calls out for Jesus to save him. He doubted himself. He doubted that he could walk on water. He doubted what he could do when he was acting under the command of Jesus. We do the same thing.

Peter knew that Jesus had all power of heaven and earth and that Jesus was the Son of God; what he forgot was that that power had been given to him as well. Peter told himself, "I am man, man cannot walk on the water. I cannot walk on the water!" True. Man cannot walk on the water but man under power of God can. "I can do all thing through Christ who gives me strength." Philippians 4.13.

The next time you tell yourself that you can't do something remember that Jesus said you can. At the same time that we say we believe in Jesus, He is believing in us. As we are trusting Jesus, he is trusting us. Jesus trusts in you enough, and has enough confidence in you that he has trusted you with his love, his salvation, and his word that you can carry it to the world. He believes you can; it is time you start believing that you can too.