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As Pastor I am so thankful for our people at NBC. You are such a blessing to me and my family. I have so many things to be thankful for that I am writing this blog to share with you what you mean to me.

I pray it will be a blessing to you as we serve God together until we see Jesus.

2009 has been a busy but an exciting year for us all. We had our soul winning marathon, our youth soul winning marathon, our Spring and Fall programs, etc. Every one of them we saw many come to know Christ. We have seen many Baptized, not a record year but we continue to follow our Lord in obedience.

I have seen our people grow and mature in the Lord. You have seen God more evident in your life and being conscious of the Holy Spirit. As we get older we become, if not careful, stuck in our ways and begin to adapt only to the things we want. In our minds we say, “this is the way we always have done it” but in reality you have been so good to allow the preacher to lead and follow the Holy Spirit’s lead, of this I am thankful.

We have seen many (100’s) of prayer requests answered, the Lu family, the Heflin family, the Rodas family, the Adkins Family, the Muirhead family, the Birchmore family, the Wong family, and the list goes on… How could we deny God’s greatness and care.

We have seen the Devil work harder this year than any year in the past. He is out to destroy our testimony, our church , our unity, to change our love to hate, our care to empathy, our reaching out to selfishness. He hates this church for he is our true enemy. He is the arch enemy of God and is out to discredit God’s faithfulness and power. Our families have been hurt by him, our relationships have been scared by him, our walk with God we have allowed to be hindered by him. In all this we at NBC have been overcomers. He may at times have won the battle but he will lose the war.

I am thankful for the visitors you brought, the pot luck’s, and the fellowship around the stoves of conversation.

As our family grows up and all the time and effort put into them becomes evident of our training, they must at sometime leave the nest and spread their wings of flight. We pray that we taught them enough to fly, to walk with God on their own, to work hard, to study hard, to be led where God wants him, and remember what God has done in their lives. As my eldest son begins to fly on his own I weep for him because he to must learn to be close to God, learn to handle problems, be loyal and true to authority. He to must realize that problems and heartache are apart of life. I pray working in his church taught him to do and see just that. We have about 8 more months before he heads off to college and then will he put all into practice what he has been taught and trained to do. I am thankful for (you) our church that has instilled into him truth, God, Holy Spirit, character over convenience, holiness, strength over weakness, loving vs hatred, building instead of tearing down. Parents are only a part of a child’s total training but it is the church’s people that give that extra encouragement, help, lifting, pushing, correcting, teaching and training. To you I am thankful for your help and guidance in my personal family. We need all the help we can get.

As we follow God this new year – 2010, may we move closer to Him and to our goals that you will make this new year.

Thank you, I love you, and am blessed by you; Your Preacher