Focus on the Eternal - New Year 2026

January 2026

It’s a new year and the obligatory time for making resolutions, plans, and goals. It has become mandatory that losing a few pounds (from chocolate chip cookies), getting more exercise, and eating healthier are at the top of everyone’s list. After that, it becomes customized, so to speak. It is the time of year when we reflect on the year past, our accomplishments, our unfulfilled dreams, our wins and our losses. It is also the time when all the major media outlets will go through their own year in review: celebrities who died, sports champions, political trends, world events. Ultimately, these are all trivia and noise, the constant rhythm of the cycle of life.

Our focus is on the eternal. My prayer is that all of you will have a healthy and prosperous 2026, that illnesses will be healed, that broken relationships will be mended, that enemies will become friends. I pray that your faith will continue to grow and that your love will extend outward to touch even more of the lost so they too can come to know Jesus. I believe that as a faith community, we are well poised to see God do great things in His name. Our attendance continues to trend upward, our finances are on more solid ground than they have been in prior years, our service to our neighbors is vibrant, our faith is secure, our love for God is evident.

I am excited to see what plans God has in store for us this year and I continue to be humbled and honored to serve as your pastor.     AMEN