Celebrate God's Work

I praise God for the awesome ways he's been working recently. At our City Reach services we saw roughly 90 people make decisions to give their lives to Christ! It really is awesome to watch God work like that because it's obvious that no one else could ever take the credit for it. It's amazing how God takes our feeble, yet sincere efforts at spreading his love and breathes power on them and works miracles in people's hearts!

One of the great privileges we enjoy as a church at ACC is the relationship we share with the church that started us, Allison Park Church. For those of you who may not know, our church was started by APC nine years ago and was the second of six church plants in the Pittsburgh area. This past weekend at APC they had spontaneous baptisms in their morning services in which 82 people decided on the spot to publicly declare their faith in Christ through water baptism! All these were baptized in a swimming pool set up in their concourse area. Check out the full report here!

Hearing reports and testimonies like this is important for us because it strengthens our faith. In church life and general life there are ups and downs. In some of the down times it can be difficult to stay encouraged. Sometimes we can be tempted to lose hope. That's why Gal. 6:9 says, "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." Celebrating the good things that God has done helps us to stay the course until we reap a harvest again!