Hey everyone this is Pastor Bruce Meaghey here from First Works Baptist Church here in beautiful
Orange County, California. I want to talk to you about the growth of our church. Last year we had
to tear down a wall in order to facilitate the growth of our church and that definitely helped
for a couple of months but now we're back at it again and we're starting to run out of room for
our morning service as well as our mother baby rooms. Now we've come up with two solutions
in order to solve this problem. One is short term, the other is long term. The long term solution
And it's for that reason that we've decided to start a giving campaign called the Sodaiseed giving campaign
where our church is going to pitch in to start saving up to purchase a building.
Now that offering Sunday will be on May 11th of this year.
Now if our church has been a blessing to you, if the preaching has been a blessing,
if you believe in our church, you support our church, we want to encourage you to do two things.
Make sure you pray for us that we would have a very generous and fruitful May 11th offering.
But number two, consider giving and participating in the offering Sunday as well.
You can give through Zell, you can give through PayPal, or you can mail in an offering to our church
at 5223 East Orange Storpe Avenue. I'll put the address in the description below. This will help
us to start saving up the funds necessary in order to purchase a building that will facilitate our
growth long term. Now the second solution is short term and that is that we need to start
Now of course with that comes funding. We need to pay the rent, we need to tear down walls,
we need to build up walls, we need to install doors, and all these other projects that come with
modifying a unit in order to fit a church. Now all the work that needs to be done,
it's going to come out to about $25,000. Now the goal would be to have that unit
before Easter Sunday because quite frankly, I have no idea where we're going to put all
these people on Easter, but I know that God's going to take care of us. He's going to provide
Now, our church is not only growing numerically, but it's also growing spiritually, and in fact,
over the last four weeks, we had a soul-winning training with over 100 in attendance,
learning how to preach the gospel, learning how to go soul-winning, and in fact,
we topped it off this past Sunday with a mini-marathon after the Sunday morning service.
We had 18 salvations and 6 baptisms, with many new soul-owners going out for the first time.
and it was an exciting Sunday overall even though there wasn't a big push for visitors.
We had a ton of visitors and the house of God was packed. Not only that but we also want to
complete our evangelization of the nation of Belize. We've been working on Belize for the
last five years and we've put in a lot of work inland as well as north but this year we want
to focus on the south and just complete the mission there in Belize. So we want to encourage you
Please do so to our short-term solution,
which is getting some of these other units.
And also consider giving on May 11th
to the Soodai Seed Giving Campaign.
We are excited to see how many souls
are gonna be saved this year,
how many baptisms we're gonna have,
how many new soul-owners and laborers
are gonna be sent forth into the harvest.
And so please be in prayer that we would continue
to succeed and prosper as a church.
God bless you and have a great one.