October 2011 Issue - Costa Calida Chronicle

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It’s time for change… it’s time to move
on…. There are occasions in our lives when
we know that we, circumstances, or both,
have to change so that we are able to
fulfi l our life’s destiny; but change is hard
unless it is forced upon us and we have no
other options.
Wellspring Victory Church has reached
that place of change and we will be moving
from Bolnuevo to our amazing new building
in Calle Madrid, Puerto de Mazarrón. We
have had fi ve wonderful years in our
building in Bolnuevo and could so easily
have stayed put, continued doing Church
and happily doing what we have always
done… we have experienced good times,
diffi cult times and everything in between.
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Around a year ago we sensed that time
in Bolnuevo was going to be short and
that we would have to move on to where
several members of our congregation
felt our ministry to people would develop
into what God wanted it to be. Our main
ministry would be outside of the ‘box’
that Church can sometimes become and
we needed a place where we could open
up our doors to the unloved, the unlovely
and the hurting people around our area;
Church is so exciting when things are not
rigid and expected.
I have heard the following said many
times and it is so true. ‘If you keep on
doing what you have always done you
will keep on getting what you have
always got’. If we want things to change
in our life, we have to do something to
bring about that change. If you are fed up
with the way things are in your life, can I
encourage you to do something about it?
You have to make a decision that tomorrow
will be different and do something different
tomorrow. If you don’t, things will remain
the same… and they don’t have to.
As I wrote earlier, it would have been so
easy to have stayed put and weathered out
the economic situation here in Spain, but
this was living in our comfort zone and not
where God wanted us to be. He wanted us
to be stretched so our faith in Him would
grow and this has happened in the lives of
many people. In Bible times someone had
to step out in faith before the answer was
revealed and it is no different today for all
of us. We dipped our sandal in the ocean of
the unknown, the diffi cult, the challenging
and the downright impossible and God has
come through for us… big time!
It has thrilled my heart to see people work
so hard to make this change happen.
Some who do not even attend Wellspring
Church have spent many hours working
on the new building and fi nances have
come miraculously to enable the work
to be completed… thank you so much to
everyone who has helped and prayed for
us.
After two and a half years of form-fi lling and
waiting, we have received our registration
for Victory Churches of Spain… it has
come just at the right time as we move
into Puerto de Mazarrón and start the next
phase of our church life here on the Costa
Cálida.
On the weekend of 7 th – 9 th October we will
be hosting the very fi rst Victory Churches
European Conference at the Hotel Playa
Grande and have a speaker fl ying in from
Toronto, Canada. Pastor Brad Dewar will
be speaking on Church growth and how we
as individuals can infl uence that... as we
grow in God… so the Church grows.
On Wednesday 12 th October at 4pm we are
holding a special service and dedicating
our new building to the Lord’s work… All
in all, this has been a very special year for
our Church, and I believe it is just the start
of exciting times ahead as we start doing
things in the town that we have never
done before. I am convinced that the cork
has come out of the bottle for us this year
because we were willing to make a change
and be different. We want to be known
as the Church that shows everyone ‘In
your face grace’… because that is exactly
what Jesus did and He offers that grace
to everyone right now. Start fulfi lling your
destiny now by making a decision that
your life can change for the better.
God bless you. [Pastor Andrew]
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