Alpha Offered as Outreach to Community
Resurrection Church in Emporia, VA has begun offering the Alpha course as a new ministry to the people around Lake Gaston, VA.
The Rev. Harry Zeiders explains why the church feels called to this area:
There are around 150,000 people (!) who live in the Lake Gaston area — that's almost nine times the population of Emporia/Greensville County. The next closest Anglican (ACNA) congregation is in the Raleigh/Durham area. It behooves us to reach out to make new disciples around Lake Gaston and to minister to the many Anglicans who have retired to the lake from Raleigh/Durham, Hampton Roads, and Northern Virginia.
Harry requests prayer support, specifically..
against the Enemy tempting current church leaders in the Lake Gaston community to feel encroached upon, or to feel that we might 'steal sheep'
that we focus on making disciples and not building a church (“If you make disciples, you always get the church. But if you make a church, you rarely get disciples."—Mike Breen)
for 'people of peace' who will open doors for us to further God's mission
against sprawl — getting detoured by well-intentioned people who have their own agenda, or getting distracted by bright ideas that are not on God's agenda
that the favor God has already shown us will only increase as we follow the Holy Spirit's lead.
