Greetings Body, Just wanted to keep you posted on how Oak Grove is reaching the members NA for the month of March. On March the seventh Oak Grove will be hosting an Enternal Medallion presentation. This is done when a mamber of NA has passed away and were clean. It is a time for NA
My dear partners in ministry, “Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.” – Psalm 68:19 Praise be to our gracious Lord who has seen us victoriously through another week! It was a week rich with missionary effort and blessed celebration. Family and small groups gathered to celebrate Doyle
On our final week of examining the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer and the desires they address, we will look at the petition: And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. This petition is about remaining on the right path. It speaks of a desire to be led by God away from
My dear partners in ministry, It was another precious and eventful week in the life of the Oak Grove Church of God. Jerri Edwards and I are both on the Kairos Area Board that administrates 4 area prisons. We met with them this week. Pastor Karen and I looked at furniture for the new connecting
So far on our journey together looking at the petitions of the Lord’s prayer and how they correlate wtih our truest desires, we have seen how desire reveals God’s purposes in us and how he satisfies those desires through his son, Jesus Christ. His ultimate purpose is for us to be in right relationship with
As we continue discussing how the petitions contained within the Lord’s Prayer address the deepest, authentic desires within us, those that reveal our true meaning, purpose, and identities, today we will take a look at the petition, “Give us this day our daily bread.” This petition addresses our needs, that which will sustain us. While
I have written several letters for the State Church of God Newsletter about missions. I plan to publish them here as they appear in the State’s Newsletter. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Since the 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010, this impoverished country has been devastated. The recovery has not been quick
My dear partners in ministry, This week was an adventure for me and another week of good missional work at Oak Grove. Last week I went to Lakeland to see one of my young cousins pitch for the Lewis Univ baseball team on Spring Break down here. This week Anderson Univ is in the area.
My dear partners in ministry, It was a significant week of missional ministry at Oak Grove. Pastor Diana, Emily Rivera and Nicole Baker were a part of a team that took Kairos into Hernando Correctional. By all accounts its was a spectacular weekend. I look forward to some testimonies this Sunday (hint :^) I had
“As the deer pants for the water, so my soul longs for thee.” Desire is at the heart of what it is to be human. We desire many things: love, a family, good health, a nice house, a shiny new car, a big screen TV, and the list could go on. Some desires are surface,
