2020 Vision

Sep 20, 2020    Bill Williamson

This Sunday we begin our Homecoming Celebration when we come together Sunday morning at 10am in our parking lot to worship together - following our 6 months of quarantine. The service will be live streamed to YouTube at 10am (search for Yakima Grace) and will posted a bit later to our website, app and Facebook. If you want to join us at church on Sunday, you can reserve your spot online at YakimaGrace.com/sept20. Space is limited.

Pastor Bill will bring the message from Isaiah - who was used by God to bring both good news and bad news to the Israelites. The bad news is that God was going to judge His people because of their rebellious hearts. The good news is sewn into the pages with the pronouncement of the coming of Christ in those famous words in Isaiah 9: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders." That would be good news for the Israelites, as well as for us.

Jesus, while here on earth proclaimed: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

And, as Jesus ascended into heaven, He passed on the Mission to go and make disciples of all nations. You and I have the Spirit of the Lord upon us, in order that we too can share the Good News of Christ to the world. We are now, like Isaiah, God's mouthpiece of Good News in a world that is often so filled with bad news.