In The Beginning

At the beginning of a new year, people often look forward to all the things they want to do.  They also use it to look back at the past year, and at all that has been done.  We like to chronicle our accomplishments, and there's no shortage of people telling us how to have new and different lives this year.

But as a new year dawns, the matter of the fact is that most things stay the same.  Even with a big event like a child or marriage or death, life changes but it quickly becomes the new normal.

There's has only been one new beginning in all of time.  And it is chronicled in the book of Genesis, in the very first chapter and verse.


"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"   Genesis 1:1


As we begin a new year, this scripture tells us that whatever happens in this new year, God must be the creator of it, the originator of it.  Over the past year, God has used this church to support missions, send missionaries, conduct outreach, support mission churches, and more.  God was the force in what we did last year, and will be the force for this new year as well.