Posts by Brent Clark
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…
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…
My “Pauses” Word this Week
Breathed – Day 8 “[Jesus] breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” John 20:22 I’ve read this passage many times. I’ve often wondered what it would have been like to be in the room when this happened. What would it have felt like? Would it have been awkward? Did Jesus need a breath mint? Or would the power of the moment be so mind-blowing that all you would remember is the overwhelming presence of the Spirit of God…
Congratulations
Congratulations! You did it! Even if you didn’t make all 28 days, even if you had to start the fast every Monday because the weekends were just too long without checking Instagram, even if you found your attention diverted to a different form of technology, the past 28 days gave us time to pause and rethink how we interact with our technology. For me, every time I pick up my phone to search for something online, I still think, do…
What Now?
We are fast approaching the end of our digital fast: 28 days of a new approach to our technology, social media, and digital entertainment. One of the big questions we are faced with is what now? Do you jump right back into where you were before we started? Or do you find new rhythms or habits to help keep a healthier relationship with your device and technology? The goal was never to deprive ourselves for the sake of deprivation. It…
Freedom
Congratulations! If you are doing the digital fast, you are over halfway done! What has changed for you in the last two and a half weeks? Have you noticed your desires shifting? Have you become aware of the times you do reach for your phone and stop to ask yourself, “Do I really need to do this right now?” Has God spoken to you during this time? One thing I have noticed is that some of the things that I…
Discoveries
We’ve entered the second week of the digital fast. How’s it going? What have you been noticing? This week, someone texted me that they looked at their screen time numbers, and last week’s screen time was down 56%! That’s awesome! If you’ve had a similar story of success (or even a story of struggle), we want to know! As you fast, you may notice things shifting in you. The “withdrawals” of the first week may become the urges and pangs…