My Article for our Weekly Email at HBC

Weekly Update

9-4-15

In one month six people from Highland will board a plane headed to serve the Lord Jesus and represent Highland in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. I want to ask you to do two things. First, will commit to pray for the Honduras Team (Jeff and Lisa Sepesi, Joe Morgan, Terry Kimrey, Shane Carter, and me from Highland, and Mike Griggs from Hickory Grove Baptist in Green Cove Springs, FL) for the next 6 weeks. Our trip dates are October 3-10. We need your prayer support as the days quickly approach time of ministry. You can pray that God grants safety in travel, that everyone stays safe and healthy while we serve, that we an effective door for ministry is open for us, pray for those whom we will be ministering to, and pray for the leaders whom we will have an opportunity to train. 

There is one other thing you can help us with. We are in need of $2500.00 to take care of some of the ministry projects we will be doing while in Honduras. We have $2500.00 to cover the cost of the construction project we will be working on, but we need an additional $2500.00 to do food ministry with the local church also. We have seen the Holy Spirit work in powerful ways through a bag of food. The physical food may only last for a week or so, but the spiritual benefits of the gospel being shared in conjunction with the food is eternal. Would you consider helping us raise this money so we, as your representatives, can serve a small community in the mountains surrounding Tegucigalpa, Honduras? I want to thank you in advance for your generosity in giving. Thank you for being a vital part in this ministry.

Our fall Wednesday night schedule began on Wednesday night with a hotdog supper to kick off AWANA. It was great to see all the kids and volunteers excited about the beginning of a new AWANA year. The next 9 months will have an eternal impact on the kids and leaders as they study and memorize the eternal Word of God. I love AWANA! Our student ministry did a fantastic job working and leading Kid’s Challenge this summer. I want to say Thank You to Matt, the youth ministry team, and the students who worked to make this summer an amazing experience for our kids. I am very proud of you and thankful for you. I know that the students are ready to get back to their own Wednesday night schedule, and my prayer is that the Holy Spirit uses this time in your lives to draw you close to King Jesus. We will continue studying the Gospel of John during Power Hour this fall. We are working through John 13 right now. Come and join us. There will also be a class, led by Dave Bolton, beginning on September 16 from 6-8pm working through the Henry Blackaby study “Experiencing God.” I highly recommend that every Christian do this study. If you have never been through it, here’s your chance. Sign up ASAP and get your book paid for so you will be ready on the 16th.

I want to remind you that we have plenty of the truelife.org invite cards available for you to give away. I pray you will take 5-10 home with you on Sunday and spend next week intentionally and strategically giving them away, inviting people to Jesus and to be your guest at Highland. The Holy Spirit longs and loves to use people just like you to bring others to Jesus. Let Him use you now. As my friend David Burton often says, “It’s only good news if they hear it in time.”

Serving Him,

Pastor Mike