Do Something: Pain

Happy birthday to our daughter, Laine Alves!! She is 28 today and continues to bring great joy to our lives. Laine serves in our office as our Communications Director and does an amazing job with all our print publications. She is also a devoted wife to Joe and mother of our first grandchild, Joseph Judah (18 months old). Beyond that she will give us another grandchild around the end of September. It’s a busy life and she handles it with grace and a positive spirit.

Sunday we will be in our fourth week of study in our Do Something emphasis. This week focuses on pain, something we all experience in our journey. Pain does so much more than hurt. We grow through pain. Without pain, we will get soft and ineffective. Pain can result in God’s comfort that we can share with someone else for their healing and our own. We are looking forward to a day of healing as Samuel Gordon brings this important teaching.

1 Peter 4:12-13 Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.

Pastor Rick

Ella Marie's Arrival

It was an eventful week for our family a couple of weeks ago!! Ella Marie was born to Travis and Melissa on Tuesday, February 15 at 2:13am weighing in at 7 lbs. 8 oz. and measuring 19 inches long. She is super cute and already bringing great joy to our world.

Photo below: Our first Sunday lunch together after church ...


Photo below: Cathy and Ella share the same birthday (hanging out in the hospital)


Photo below: Baby Ella in her sweet glory

Capital Christian Center's Mission

Cathy and I are in Washington D.C. to attend this year’s National Prayer Breakfast. It is our first experience with this event and we are thankful for the opportunity. We are here as guests of Fuller Seminary which has arranged several opportunities to interact with those involved in the political process. We will have sessions with the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Center for American Progress. There is much to learn as we pursue our mission and destiny.

Since we are on the East Coast, we will be spending the weekend with Nate and Lisa in New York. In my absence, Doug will be speaking Sunday on the mission of our church and how we can continue to grow in our impact in the world. It will be a great day for sure!

Here is another date to look forward to: February 20 the Katinas will be our musical guests in the morning services and then they will team up with Freeway Fifty for Simply Worship that evening. Can’t wait!

John 9:4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

Pastor Rick