Dear Ministry Partner:
Hope all of you have had a wonderful summer and had some great family vacation and getaways that will make for fond memories.
It has been a busy summer for my wife and I as we are prepared for our daughter‘s wedding which took place a few weekends ago. It was a beautiful time for our family. God answered our prayers!
I wanted to share with you what’s coming up as we move into our fall season. Maybe the most important thing is that we plan is to start up our Community Leaders Breakfasts on the first Friday in September (September 3rd) at Christ Temple Church. I’ve had several people asked me when we’re going to return to these breakfast meetings that have been such an encouraging and uplifting time for all of us. We ask that you wear a mask especially if you’ve not been vaccinated.
Our Leadership Team is also gearing up for our fall retreat. This is a special time to discern what we believe God is speaking to our ministry in this hour and season. We will give you more information as we solidify that date.
Just wanted to let you know that during the summer we have kept up our meeting times with many of our community leaders. These are always special times because so often we have an opportunity to see God move as we join our faith with theirs. It continues to be a blessing to our leaders to have others come alongside them and intercede for their area of influence. As always we continue to see God‘s hand move in amazing ways.
We have continued to meet every Friday morning at Heritage Farm Chapel to continue our prayer time for our community and the Appalachian region. These are precious times, because we sense God‘s presence in such a tangible way. It’s evident to us that what God is doing in our community is a reflection of what He wants to do throughout all of Appalachia.
We are excited about our opportunity to gather marketplace leaders. We believe that God is leading us to begin a new Market Place Kingdom Network. Right now this team is connecting twice a month as we pray and discuss how to move forward in ministering to many of our key marketplace leaders. We also believe that when the time is right, we are to launch a monthly Marketplace Leaders Luncheon. We believe these will look similar to our Community Leaders Breakfasts. Our hope is to gather faith-filled marketplace leaders for the purpose of praying for each other and encouraging these leaders as they seek God‘s will and purpose for their organizations.
We will keep you posted as things continue to unfold in that arena. We continue to see God working in mighty ways behind the scenes. One of our main focuses in this hour is to pray that God places the right people in the right place with the right gifts and attitudes so that through them He can bless our community and region. We believe this is part of our mandate to advance His kingdom through his “Ekklesia” or church.
As always, we want to thank you for partnering with us. We thank you for your prayers and offerings to make it possible for this ministry to continue to move forward and uniting the body of Christ so that we can become a greater blessing to our community and region. Our goal is to see God’s name glorified as His kingdom comes and His will is done on our part of the earth as it is in heaven.
Yours in Christ's Service,
Pastor Mike Greider