A Note from Pastor Nigel

Church ALIVE, a twelve-month emphasis on various aspects of the Christian life.  ALIVE is an acronym for Actively Living In View of Eternity.  I want to invite you to join in as Christ’s body here at Parkside and together follow the vision for where God is taking us in the upcoming year and what He desires to accomplish in and through us. The Holy Spirit seems to be directing us to focus on how we are doing at mobilization.

Mobilization is just another way of saying implementation.  Think of it as going on a trip.  There is the preparation, planning and packing phase but it’s all rather anticlimactic if we don’t leave the house and go. What have we packed for? Mobilization is taking all that we have been given by the Lord and putting it to use for His purposes.  We’ve been equipped by God with all these spiritual and material blessings, are we using them?  When we were made alive in Christ, our eternal destination was preloaded into our reborn spirit’s GPS.  Have we embarked on that journey? ALIVE means that we narrow our focus on what will help us be like and live like Jesus with a focus on what contributes to eternity.

Mobilization became harder since 2020 and COVID. Like other churches, we did what we could and have slowly been able to ramp-up normal ministry.  However, many have not gone back to the way it was, let alone expecting more.  We want to change that.  We want to go forward with a renewed enthusiasm for Jesus and vigor for the life He wants us to live. Moving toward eternity with a willingness to lay ourselves, our agendas, and our future at the feet of Jesus and ask Him what He wants of us.

My hope is that you will prayerfully commit to the next year of our church’s life and ministry with anticipation of all that God could accomplish.  I encourage you to pray over our calendar and ask God to embolden you to step out in areas that may be new to you. Together we will practice and develop our giftings to be used for the Kingdom of God to impact eternity in our lives and the lives of those around us.

Because of Jesus, Pastor Nigel