Posts from 2026
Pastor Training Center
As part of our additional missions giving for 2026, we are supporting Vishwa Vani in the construction of a new pastors’ training center to serve five states: Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand & Haryana in Northwest India bordering Pakistan. Here are some recent pictures of construction.
More Missions Impact
During our last ministry year, Ashworth gave $34,225 to our missions partners through regular giving. You also contributed an additional $14,700 through special missions offerings. Your generosity allowed us to finish the year with more than we needed to cover our expenses, so we decided to give the extra away. We are sending an additional $25,000 to our missions partners to support their ongoing work. Altogether, nearly $74,000 is going toward missions from this past ministry year—sharing the hope of Jesus, serving people in need, and advancing God’s…
Kids Ministry Check-In
Beginning September 13, parents, please check in each child using the computer in the church foyer. The computer will print a name tag for each child. Please make sure your child is wearing their tag before heading into the service. Kids will continue to join their families in the main service during worship. After worship, they’ll be dismissed to their age-appropriate ministry areas: Ages 2–4: UpstairsAge 5–5th grade: Basement Downstairs Thanks for helping us make Sunday mornings safe, welcoming, and…
Youth Meal Train Help Needed
Each week, our youth group students share a meal together as part of their gathering. We’re looking for volunteers to help provide those meals! If you’d be willing to bring a meal for our students, we’d love for you to sign up here.
Learning Center Pantry
Our Learning Center pantry has been in very high demand lately, and they have asked for our help keeping it stocked for the children and families they serve. If you’re able, please consider donating some of the following items: Food: Pasta/noodles, pasta & tomato sauces, canned vegetables & fruit, rice, peanut butter, canned chicken, cereal, applesauce, and mac & cheese. Personal Care: Body wash, shampoo/conditioner, lotion, toothbrushes/toothpaste, and toilet paper. Donations can be brought to church on Sunday and placed in the…
Plant a Church
Jesus is on the move in India, and we’d love to be a part of it! In partnership with Vishwa Vani, we hope to raise $10,000 in order to build another church in India this spring. Would you consider joining us in prayer and giving to see God continue to move among these people? If you’d like to give, click here to do so, selecting the “India Church Planting” designated fund.
Eat
All at once an angel touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat’ (1 Kings 19:5). Lent is known as a season of fasting. Traditionally, it means skipping a meal one day a week or no meat on specific days. But over the years, this has been expanded. Now people fast from sweets or sugar, entertainment, technology, or social media. Today, just about anything can be fasted from during Lent. The command to Elijah was to eat. His body was…
Return
Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love (Joel 2:13). A well-known expression — and the title of a novel by Thomas Wolfe — is “you can’t go home again.” With this comes the assumption that things won’t be the way they were — and if they are, they will probably be worse. There is something inherent in our nature that resists going back, returning, especially if we’ve burned…