Look What the Lord Has Done!

Greetings from your Pastor,

What a great year 2011 was.  As I look back to the things we accomplished I get dizzy.  It was a blur of activity full of surprises and blessings. I will attempt to cover the highlights of the year.  We hosted District Council for the first time in the history of the church; we hosted a Light for the Lost Banquet as well as hosting the Southern Idaho District Senior Adult Camp meeting.  In addition we hosted the Largest Food give away in the History of the Magic Valley where we gave away over 150,000 pounds of food to 14 different magic valley communities.

Internally we navigated the church through numerous policies and procedures that will help govern the daily affairs such as our screening of volunteers who work with children, finance policy, church use policy and more.  Our hope is to have each of these policies accessible from our web site soon. We developed a finance committee to help oversee the finances of the church, established a work order system, developed online giving, added additional staff, reworked the giving envelopes, established an apprentice program for up and coming leadership, developed a partnership agreement with World Vision, Idaho Food Bank, Feed the Children in addition to the numerous partnerships locally that benefits our Food Ministry. We hosted a daily radio broadcast that helped us spread the Good News.  Some fun things we did were participated in the Parades for both Rupert and Burley.  In fact we placed second in the Church Division in the Burley Parade and were awarded $100.00. 

The Building and or capital improvements are numerous we will just bullet point each of these items.

·         New production quality Camera and broadcast  Equipment

·         Paving of parking lot adding 88 spaces

·          Totally Kitchen Remodel to make it Commercial compliant

·         New Tables and Chairs for Life Center

·         New Table Ware & plates  for 300 place settings

·         Windows for Security Purposes in the Nursery, and each Door in the Life Center

·         New Locks on all doors

·         Began Internet Campus

·         New Blinds in all the windows in the church

·         Changing Tables in both Men’s and Women’s Restrooms

·         Updating of Men’s and Women’s Bathrooms

·         Added Drinking Fountain in Life Center

·         Painting of numerous Class rooms

·         Name Plates for each class room in Life Center

·         Installed Panic door openers on Exterior doors

·         Easter King Fine arts Center (weekend of Hope) where over 750 attended

·         Major repairs made to the furnace units in the life center

·         New Phone system

·         Named the street entering into the church facility

·         Paid off debt on the coffee shop equipment

·         Improved the Information Center

·         Major roof repair on West side of the facility

·         Purchased additional land on the East side of the church.

·         Added additional Sunday Service opportunities

As you will see from the financial report we had a great year thanks to all you who gave of your tithe, time and talent to make things happen. 

In the coming year I see greatness in every area of the church.  We have begun times of prayer that will catapult us into greatness with our Lord.  In our Sunday Services we have planed an extended series as we preach through the bible one book each month for 2012:

January—Genesis,   February – Gospel of Matthew, March-Exodus,   April- Gospel of Mark, May – Leviticus, June – Gospel of Luke, July-Numbers,  August-John, September-Numbers,  October-Acts, November-Deuteronomy, December-Romans

Our Midweek Services will continue to offer relevant topics utilizing series as anchor classes along with relevant bible studies that will challenge every believer. 

We look forward to another great year.

Pastors Jim & Joy Powell