New Beginnings

Mizpah for December 11th from the old 1882 devotional by the author Charles Cullis reads thus:
MY presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. Exodus 33:14

"Christ, my Master, goes about doing good, and if you would walk with Him, you must go about upon the same mission." Spurgeon.

Tomorrow, a gathering of believers, most from Grace Church, will meet at the home of the former Pastor of Grace Church, Russell and Christina Taylor. Russell is forming a new fellowship called Christ's Church. We will meet out of his carport beginning at 10:30, followed by fellowship meal and then activities for the youth.

We at Christ Church and Grace Church are a scattered body, some electing to remain at Grace under the leadership of Elders Gary Byerly and Brandon Elixson, others going with Russell, who was to remain through January, but elected to resign last Sunday morning. The frustration with this entire ordeal is not in the body of believers, who harbor no ill will toward one another, but
a few Elders in training and their differences with Pastor Russell.

In the above photograph, Pastor Taylor and his family are pictured with my family, and our missionary family to the Wano people in Papua,New Guinea, Mark and Libby Wild and their four sons.

I trust that whatever comes of this current scattering, that we shall continue to provide support for the good that the Wild's are doing in translating the Bible to the Wano people and that the believers in the now two bodies will likewise continue, as Christ, to go about doing good to one another, in our speech toward one another, in our love for one another, in our prayer's for reconciliation for one another.