Pastor James Spicer said his church’s congregation may be small but their dreams of bringing people in couldn’t be bigger.
“Our prayer has been to build a family life center to reach out to young people and senior adults,” said Spicer, pastor of Freedom Baptist Church in Selma.
It’s a long-running vision at Freedom Baptist that Spicer said had a fresh fire lit beneath it during talks of International Evangelism. “We want to do a good job of reaching the community, and I’m convinced nothing is impossible with God,” he said.
For First Baptist Church, Pleasant Grove, Pastor Joe Godfrey said making the strategy work may mean a refocusing of the use of the existing family life center. “I’m going to be encouraging our people to reach out more to the community through what we already have.”
Greg Michaelson, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Vernon, said he sees a different service his church can provide – debt counseling for his community’s migrants.
“Apartment complexes here have a huge turnover rate because of the bondage the people are in to debt,” he said. “Helping them break free would also open doors to share about freedom in Christ,” he added.
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