Newcomer lunch, Sunday, June 3rd (Noon)

If you have been coming to Holland First for 6 months or less we want to invite you to a free lunch in your honor. It will take place this Sunday, June 3rd right after the morning service. The luncheon will be in the youth room upstairs. Come and meet our leadership team.

HARD PRESSED!!!!

Perhaps like Paul, you are being pressed beyond measure, tested beyond your endurance. Your strength is nearly gone, and you are on the brink of giving up. You want to run, but there is no place to go. Now you say with Paul, "This is above my strength!" So, what is the way to victory? All I can tell you is how God continues to bring me out. Here are two important truths He has given me: 1. Don't think you are experiencing some strange, unique battle. On the contrary, you are in good company. Recall Job, Jeremiah, Elijah, David, Paul — even me. What you are going through is common to believers throughout the centuries. "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy" (1 Peter 4:12-13). 2. When you think you can't go on another hour — when everything looks absolutely hopeless — cry out to God with all that is in you, "Lord, help!" Consider the counsel of the psalmist in the following verses: * "As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me. Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me" (Psalm 55:16-18). * "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. . . . In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears" (18:1-2, 6). * "O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit" (30:2-3). Here is a key verse: "For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper" (72:12). Jesus has sent the Holy Spirit to be your helper and He will not turn a deaf ear to your cry for help!

Special Mother's Day service this Sunday at 10a.m.

Be sure to be at Holland First this Sunday at 10a.m. for a wonderful Mother's Day service. We have some exciting things planned. BRING YOUR MOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you are not already in Mike & Rose Rodriguez's Wednesday night class, Pastor Mike Houser would like to invite you to the 2nd half of his Men's class that meets in the prayer room. "Fathered by God" wrapped up this past Wednesday so Pastor Mike will be ministering on different subjects pertinent for men for the entire month of May! Tomorrow's class (May 2nd) will include a video about Tim Tebow; quarter back for the New York Jets and recipient of the Heisman Trophy. He also has been named greatest collegiant of all time. So come out and be a part of this exciting men's class. And bring the family!!! There is Wednesday ministry for everyone. www.hollandfirst.com