Thank you so much to those who filled in while I was away at Briercrest. I got to listen to both Mark's and Hannah's sermons, and I thought they did a great job.

I had a good week studying Christian spiritual formation. We talked about ways to understand this and what practices we can use to encounter God through Bible reading, nature, journaling, breath prayers, and more.

At the end of the week, we headed out to Dallas Valley Ranch Camp. One of the highlights there was hearing testimonies from my classmates.

God is present here with us. Often, it's a matter of us slowing down and learning how to meet with Him and sense Him.

Come on out for an evening of praise and prayer on Friday June 19th 7:00 pm at Grace Place. 

A mentor of mine always used to say, "You can't argue with a man's testimony." The idea was this: you can try to convince someone about something, arguing intellectually, but a testimony moves outside of intellectual argument and says, "This happened to me. I give evidence of it!" This is why we all love it when testimonies are shared at church. Testimonies move us beyond the theoretical to the experiential. These testimonies are "eyewitness" accounts. Is it surprising to hear that God has a testimony? 

This week, we will be studying 1 John 5:1-12. John starts out by telling us about the family life. He tells us how the life of the child of God is wrapped up in believing that Jesus is the Christ. When we believe that Jesus is the Christ (the anointed leader who comes to bring freedom from sin and peace with God) we become born of God. And when we are born of God, there is only one possible outcome of that birth: we love God and we love God's children. We love God by keeping His commandments. We love God by loving each other. We can't help but love God's family. And since we're in God's family, it's God's family that overcomes the world, because God has overcome the world.

Just in case there's any confusion or doubt about who Jesus is John then moves on to give us proof that Jesus is the Christ.

God has a testimony. It is "He gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." (verse 11) We believe a lot of things when much less authoritative people give testimony to what they have figured out or experienced. We trust our lives to engineers, scientists, and the like. John says, "If God has a testimony, we should believe it." (verse 9) God is the eyewitness. Actually, He's more than the eyewitness to this testimony. He gave of Himself, by dying, so that we could have Life. John says that the proof of God's testimony is the incarnate son of God, who is proved authentic by the water, the blood, and the Holy Spirit. God has testified. Do you believe it?

If you believe it, the invitation then is to place all your eggs in that basket.

Blessings, Jeremy

Josh De Jong formally invites anyone and everyone to participate in the first ever “Cornspiel” - a cornhole tournament fundraiser in support of The Gathering Place.

The Gathering Place is a not-for-profit in Westfort, strategically located across the street from Spence Court low-income housing. They’re focused on providing basic needs (food, clothing and support services) for people in that area.

The ticket price is the primary form of raising funds for the event and includes registration for the tournament as well as pizza!

To sign up you can text Josh at 250-918-8686 or email him at Joshua.dejong4@gmail.com. 

Join us for an afternoon of charity and intense competitiveness!

Enjoy Robin and Yoko's latest update as they serve in Japan.

Wednesday, 7:00 AM on zoom -  1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month 

Thursday – 7:30 PM zoom only

Friday – 7:00 AM in person at Transformation Church (Upstairs)

Sunday - 9:00 AM in person at Transformation Church (Downstairs)