This past weekend, five of us from Estevan Alliance Church had the awesome privilege of travelling to Hamilton Ontario to bear witness to the birth of a new work of God through the official launch of a new church.
Over the next few weeks at EAC you're going to be hearing about our trip from each of the people who went but one of the highlights of the weekend for me was being invited to participate in the official commissioning service by the parent congregation, Gateway Church in Caledonia. We were welcomed into their service with humbling hospitality and were given the opportunity to share, read scripture, serve communion and even preach - along with their own people and the members of the Ancaster church plant.
Gateway is pretty on the ball with getting their sermons online for their podcast so I was not surprised to find when I checked yesterday that the recording of Steve (Gateway's pastor), Aaron (the pastor of the Ancaster church plant) and I available to listen to.
In the shared sermon time each of us took turns telling our stories of how we got involved with this venture and talked about how the lessons of the Hall of Faith (Hebrews 11) resonate and bring illumination to the work God is doing through these three congregations. If you are a part of EAC and were not able to be at Gateway for this service (which is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 98% of you) I would strongly encourage you to listen to the recording to get some important background on this amazing work of God that we, as a gracious blessing from God, get to be involved with.
Take a listen and spread the word - God is on the move!
Launching Out
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