George and Norine Carnevale with Wycliffe Associates in Dallas write: The summer has been slow. George always works harder, since the volunteers are not here. He has no one to assign jobs to now, but himself. He loves the hands on, but the heat is hard to bear as we “age”. Pray for stamina and...
From Los Angeles, Tuvya Zaretsky (with Jews for Jesus) reports, “I recall an often-repeated principle from our earliest missionary training: The best way to meet Jewish people we can minister to is through the referrals of believing family and friends. So, no surprise when Jeff, a friend and supporter of our ministry on the East...
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And it I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing....
Sunday School will resume the first week in September, and the adult class will be studying the book of Job. Class participants are requested to read Job over the next month in preparation for the class. Grace Church Congregational bearing witness to Christ with integrity and compassion
Mark your calendars for our monthly time of corporate prayer to be held Sunday, July 26th, from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM. We will meet here at the church 1055 Williams Street Pittsfield, MA 01201 Grace Church Congregational bearing witness to Christ with integrity and compassion
Let’s take advantage of the longer days and more relaxed pace (for some) of the summer months to get together in each other’s homes, or for outings, or just a cool glass of lemonade and conversation. It can be a challenge to make the time, but the importance and benefits of cultivating relationships in the...
Do you enjoy singing? Do you like to sing? Does God sing? Does Jesus sing? Does God have a passion for singing? How important is music for the Church? Do you feel you have a good theology of music? Join us Sunday, July 19th, after worship for lunch, fellowship and presentation by Bob Kauflin “Words...
Schmidt’s Prayer Letter, May 2015 3rd floor of the church, 2 PM. “Want a banana smoothie?” Out of the blue, a guy who rarely comes to the English Speakers’ Fellowship (ESF), brings all the fixings for smoothies, and proceeds to delight our palate! Then in come many others that have not been around for a...
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9) Twenty years ago this past March, Charleen and I drove back to Pittsfield from Marietta, Ohio,...
“But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Gal. 6:14). This was an absurd statement in Paul’s world. The cross was an instrument of execution used by the government. The cross was a place of shame, disgrace, humiliation, indignity, degradation, and ignominy. The criminal was beaten,...