Our Fall Festival is Saturday, November 2, from 5-7 pm. Kids of all ages are welcome! Join us for our second annual Fall Festival on Saturday, November 2, from 5-7 pm. We’ll have food for the first 250 attendees, Trunk or Treat, bounce houses, games, fun, and LOTS of candy! Wear your costumes and be […]
Cancer Prayer Service
For cancer fighters, survivors, family, and friends Are you or someone you know battling with cancer? In partnership with Southern Teal, we are holding a special cancer prayer service for those who are fighting this battle and the people who love them. Join us on Sunday, September 22 at 10:15 am, and bring your friends. […]
Shadow and Substance
Don’t let the shadow diminish the substance. Ground fog moved in wisps. Though nothing but a vapor, it blurred the sturdy, massive oak tree which has stood for ages. My initial focus was the full moon, brilliant and unobstructed, reflecting borrowed light from the sun. Like a muse, it caused my quirky mind to search […]
Books for Beauregard, Update
On May 21, 2019, Pastor and Sandy Shorey joined Hilton Avenue Community Church member and Scholastic Book Fairs Representative Joni Richburg and her husband, Allen, to deliver 1850 books to Beauregard Elementary School! The students gathered at the front of the school to welcome us and say “Thanks!” This outreach began as a searching question, […]
The Community Outside, Part 3
God calls us to live in community, both with those inside the church and outside of it. He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?” Matthew 12:11 ESV Doing Good on the Sabbath Sunday […]
The Responsibility of Community, Part 2
When we live in community, sometimes we have to choose. For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. ~ Galatians 1:10 ESV If possible, so far as it depends […]
The Importance of Community, Part 1
Community is the catalyst to bring a well-rounded person to light, to life, and into focus. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. ~ C.S Lewis As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. ~ Proverbs […]
Soil Tests
What will our soil tests reveal? Mark 4:3-93 “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when […]
Telescopes and Faith
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 I have a small collection of telescopes; they vary in size and quality. The lesser quality telescopes reveal only a little more than I can see just by gazing skyward. With my most powerful one I can see […]