Holland First News!!!!

Hello Holland First Family, Here are some reminders as we head into the weekend… *Men’s Lunch tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 20th) at Buffalo Wild Wings – Noon *Corporate Prayer in the sanctuary Saturday at 7pm *This Sunday is Missions Convention! At 10am we have Tim and Joyce Jarvis missionaries to Tanzania and at 6pm Bob and Bette Sue MacIsaac, missionaries to Lithuania. Plus in the evening we have Food from Around the World. Take a tour of different countries sponsored by our Life Groups and get a taste of some of their food. Hope to see you soon!

October 14th at 10a.m. "Come on In...it's open!" Message from Pastor Mike Houser in his current series, "The Mount"

Becoming a Giant with God

by David Wilkerson [May 19, 1931 - April 27, 2011] “Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge for us” (Psalm 62:8). You must consider your daily appointments with God more sacred and important than appointments with any other people — no matter who they are. How embarrassing it must be for heaven to see the way we Christians fail to highly regard the majesty of our God, the King of Glory. We are often flippant in the way we keep Him waiting. And at the drop of a hat, we will suddenly cancel plans to meet with Him in His courts, all for the most trifling thing! Can you imagine someone keeping the Creator of the universe waiting while he lingers to view his favorite TV program? Yet that is what many of us do! Even worse, we often do not bother to show up in God's presence at all. It is not that we forget our appointment with Him but we willfully refuse to appear before Him! Isaiah lamented, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not" (Isaiah 53:3). When I allow interruptions to come between me and my appointments with the Lord, I am hiding my face from Him and not appreciating Him as I should. The truth is, it is impossible to waste time when you are seeking God in prayer. Furthermore, outside the secret closet, the praying man or woman accomplishes more in less time, with less hurry and less effort and sweat. The most effective work for God we will ever do is on our knees. While the prayerless run helter skelter, to and fro, attempting great things, the praying Christian is hard at work moving kingdoms, shattering strongholds, doing great things and, in the process, becoming a giant with God.

Welcome our new Youth Pastors- Pastor Chad and Kate Zudweg Their first Sunday will be Sunday, September 16th, but he will begin at Holland First on Monday, Sept. 10th. Welcome Pastor Chad and Kate. Glad to have you at Holland First. Also, they have an adorable little girl named Sophia!

Pastor David & Shirley Krist here Sunday, Aug. 19th at 10a.m.

Don't miss this wonderful and historic day. Pastor Krist will be ministering in the 10a.m. service and then after the service we will all head outside for the dedication of our Holland First cornerstone at the center island. Pastor Krist and a team of men built the original Holland First church on Clover Street and he had the cornerstone erected there. Now it has been brought to our present facility and he will be dedicating it once again to the Lord at its new permanent place. Then come back at 6p.m. for our evening service for a time in the Word, followed by S.N.A.C. Night (Sunday Night After Church). This week it's a potluck fellowship. Simply bring a dish to pass and everything else is provided. See you Sunday! Pastor Mike Houser Senior Pastor www.hollandfirst.com "Loving God, Lovin

g People"

What's Your Jericho?

Come this Sunday, July 29th @ 10a.m. and receive your breakthrough. God has given me a powerful message that any Jericho in your life must fall! I hope to see you this Sunday @ Holland First. You'll be glad you came in Jesus name!!!!!

Holy Spirit Conference coming to Holland First

Tim and Rochelle Enloe August 10-11 @ 7p.m. August 12 @ 10a.m.