This year, we'd like to see every single one of you bring someone to Jesus!  Doesn't matter if you've been saved one week or one decade, YOU can affect your world and make a difference in the lives of your friends and neighbors by sharing your faith with them! 

This week, why don't you try loving on someone?  I found this list online based on Micah 6:8, which says, "He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly before your God."  Get involved in the world around you! I want to encourage you to pick one or a few of these items to try this week!  

Some of my favorites are:

• "Number 20: Bake some cookies for a neighbor that you haven't met as a means to introduce yourself."
• "Number 27: Help a neighbor make repairs to their property or home that they are unable to do themselves."
• "Number 33: Look at your city's community events calendar, pick an event, and find out how you can serve at it."
• "Number 37: Get permission from city officials to paint a community mural."

The point is, do something for the people around you! LOVE on them! Getting involved in church is amazing, and something we all definitely should do, but Jesus said in Mark 16:15, "Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone!"  Surrounding yourself with people who will lift you up and encourage you is awesome, and we should do it often, SO THAT we are filled to overflowing and can love on the people around us in the world. Who will you love on this week?

Hello Freedom Valley!

We all started studying our year's theme verse this weekend (we did in Kids Ministry too!): Ephesians 3:20, which says, "Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think."   I love this verse so much because it means no matter how much I might ask for or think of, God is still able to accomplish MORE than that!  He made the world and everything in it, so though I ask for things of this world, he is able to think up things so much bigger than that! That just opens my mind up to so many possibilities...and makes me realize how small my faith is sometimes.

There's a second part to that though...did you catch it?  The verse says that God is able to do infinitely more than we might ask or think, yes...but it also says THROUGH his mighty power at work within US!  It sounds like it requires an action from us, we have to be the leg work for God's mighty power!  

So, what step are you making this week toward your goals for 2012? How are you allowing God to work within you?


In Kids Ministry this week, we picked 4 friends to pray for over the next 4 weeks.  We picked 4 that we have not invited before, and do not attend church regularly already. We made something to remind us to pray every day that those 4 friends can find a way to Jesus, and that we can be an example to them! Join us? Pick your 4 today!

Welcome to Freedom Valley's Year of Aggressive Faith blog!  Here we will post weekly ideas, tips, and encouragements about how to reach out and invite your friends and neighbors to have a relationship with Jesus and attend church with you! 


We believe evangelism is so important!  Afterall, Jesus sent us out in Matthew 28:19 by saying, "Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."


He was speaking to each and every one of us, and we should take that directive seriously!  What are you doing this week to obey Jesus?  




In this blog, we will be studying together what it means to be a follower of Jesus, why followers of Jesus should reach out to others, and how to do so!  Come join us in having the best year ever!

2012 - Freedom Valley's "Year of Aggressive Faith"