30-Day Challenge

Today is the launch of our Embracing Faith 30-Day Challenge at New Covenant where we are inviting everyone to spend time daily meditating on the selected passage and in prayer. If you are not already doing so, I invite you to take part. Here is how you can join the challenge: Pick up your Journey Guide from church on Sunday and turn to the Reading Journal section in the guide. There is a selected passage and a place to journal your thoughts for 6 days each week, and a prayer and memory verse for the week.

To complement the journal, you can also go to our Embracing Faith 30-Day Challenge blog. You will find a devotional to go along with each day's challenge and a place to share your comments and thoughts with others on the journey. Pastor Bob's devotional to kick off this journey is already posted.

Being a Kingdom Partner is all about embracing faith. Our goal with this Embracing Faith Campaign is not focused on raising funds for a facility but on finding a way to allow us to continue to make disciples both here in Cedar Rapids and around the world. That focus has led us to grow by an average of 10 percent each year, and that growth has helped give us added resources to support four new kingdom partners. So Embracing Faith is truly about Kingdom work. I can't wait to see what God will do in the future to build his kingdom as we remain obedient to Jesus' command to make disciples of all people groups.