Youth Notes
Christmas time is rapidly approaching. Another year has come and gone. It is so easy to get wrapped up in the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, and forget what is really important. Through the month of December, the youth are studying the Christmas story. I have challenged the students to not [...]
Pastor’s Note
Both Psalm 107 and 136 are great psalms of thanksgiving to God and for God. Ps 107:1 says: “Give thanks to the Lord for He is good; His love endures forever.” And verse 8 states: “Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men…” NIV As [...]
Pastor’s Note
Servant Evangelism is demonstrating the love of God by offering to do some act of humble service with no strings attached.” In 1 John 4:16 it states: “God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.”(NIV) Since we are in God, we by our new nature in Him, [...]
Pastor’s Note
One of the hardest things for people to face is change. We don’t like it, we don’t want it, we fight it, and yes, we can be very stubborn about it. Particularly the older we get, the more there is a tendency to resist change. We get comfortable with where we are in [...]
Pastor’s Note
September 20, 2009 was a historic date for University Baptist Church as the church voted to create the positions of Minister to Young Adults and Minister to Preschool. Both of these are part-time positions. We are stepping out in faith to follow what we believe God has called us to do. In truth God [...]
Pastor’s Note
Please be in prayer for the Personnel Committee. They have an enormous task ahead of them as they seek to find God’s choice for the positions which were created in the called business meeting last night. For those who were not here, the church voted to create two part-time positions, one for [...]
Pastor’s Note
There is a new place to find this newsletter. It is on the church’s website: www.ubchurch.org. We are now posting the newsletter on the website so that those of you who normally receive the newsletter after things have already happened can now find that information in the newsletter on our website. [...]
Youth Notes
Well, it’s official! The summer is over and the new school year is here. I cannot believe how fast the time flew these past few months. This was an incredible summer! God moved amidst our student ministry through camp, mission trip and many other fellowships. It was exciting to see not only the community [...]
Youth Notes
First of all, on behalf of the students, I would like to thank Janice Stapleton, Nena Borah, and Sharla Stapleton for all of their hard work last week. Those three ladies went above and beyond to show Christ’s love to not only our students, but also our guests from Crossroads Baptist Church in [...]
Pastor’s Note
Prayer really does change things. That was evident in the testimonies of the youth last night. It was a good reminder about the importance of prayer. If we as individuals and we as a church are going to be what God desires for us, then we must be a people of prayer. We [...]