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Worship - February

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Church Family,

This month I write this newsletter with a heavy heart. I wanted to take moment to share with you how God has been working in the life of me and my family. God is always moving, and He also moves in ways we don’t expect, or in ways that we aren’t ready for. But as we always say, as God moves, we move.

Over the last four years, it has been an absolute joy and honor to serve as your worship pastor. We have seen God move in ways we never could have imagined. We have made relationships that we pray will last forever, and we have made memories that we will cherish for a life time. It is with a heavy heart that we want to let you know that God has called our family into a new season of life and ministry. God has called us to Alabama where I will serve as the Worship Pastor at Bethel Baptist Church. The Lord has been moving in our hearts for the past several months to lead to this decision, and we do not take this calling lightly. As we move on, we will carry the love that you have shown to our family each and every Sunday.

Being a part of this church family will always be one of the greatest blessings of our lives. We are so excited about the future for Oakhill, and we cannot wait to see where God takes you all in this new season. God is moving strongly at Oakhill and it’s hard for to us to know that we won’t be present for the great things God has in the coming days and years at Oakhill. We can’t wait to hear the stories of how God works in each and every life of this church and this community. I love you and I have loved being your worship pastor. My prayer is that we would worship God with our lives, no matter the circumstances. He is good and He is faithful, and we are believing in God for great days ahead.

I want to encourage you to never stop worshipping, and never stop singing. Make it a priority with your family. Go to church on Sunday, but keep worshipping on Monday. Worship isn’t an experience, but it’s lifestyle. Worship is like breathing, it’s something we were constantly created to do. Don’t stop. Keep going. And whatever we do, let’s do it all for the glory of God.

In Christ,
Jared 

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Worship - January

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Church Family,

I pray this new year finds you well. God did so many great things through our church in 2019, and we cannot wait to see what’s in store for 2020. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who was involved in our Christmas Worship Night. We could not have done it without our praise band, praise team, choir, and production team. I am so thankful for every single person who helped make this evening such a special event. I also want to thank everyone who came out to participate and worship with us. I know there were so many things you could have done with your evening, so thank you if you came to be a part! It was a great night and I am so grateful for everyone who was a part.

Moving on into 2020, I want to share three prayers that I have for our Church Family this new year, and I hope you would pray these things with me as well. I know there are so many things we could pray for, and so many things that we do pray for. But the sake of space, and I’ll share just a few:

1) I pray that worshipping God would be our main priority. I pray that worship would be the goal of my heart, all day, every day. I don't mean only on Sunday mornings. Should we make worship a priority on Sunday mornings? Absolutely. Should worship slide down our priority list during the rest of the week? Absolutely not. Whether we are alone, whether we are together, whether we are at work, or whether we are with our families, I pray we would worship the one who gives us all of these things. God is good, all the time, and he deserves our worship all of the time.

2) I pray that we would pray more. I pray that I would pray more. I pray that you would pray more. I pray that we would see every meal, every goodnight story with our children, every morning coffee, as a chance to come to God in prayer. I pray that we would pray more than once a day. If we believe what God says in His Word is true, and if we believe that He is who He says He is, then why are we not praying more? How much should we pray? I can’t give an exact amount of time we should spend in prayer. But I know that I should pray more than I am, and we should all pray more than we do. Join me, and let’s just pray more!

3) I pray that we would worship God in a fresh way on Sunday mornings. Does this mean that we will worship God in a new way? No. Does it mean that we will worship God in a different way? No. But I also believe that God is the ultimate creator of all things. So my prayer is that God would create something new in us as we come to worship together on Sunday morning. Let’s set our expectations high. Let’s set our standard high. I believe that God will do more than we ask or imagine. Let’s expect Him to do just that.

I can’t wait to see what God has in store for us this year. I love you all and I will see you on Sunday!

In Christ,
Jared

 

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