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Follow this link to our MAIN SCHEDULE PAGE!

Visit our pastor's blog, The Dream Factory, Also visit our STEP UP Campaign site and our Skate Church site.

Follow this link to read Daily Devotionals for our STEP UP Campaign.

We recomend thse books from Pastor Tom's Bookstore.

Sunday Worship
Spanish - 10:000 A.M.
English - 11:15 A.M.
Hmong - 12:30 A.M.
English Evening - 6:00 P.M.

Other churches using our facilities have wonderful services as well.

Bible Studies

Sundays at the church - 9:30 A.M. , 9:45 A.M., and 12:30 P.M. - GROW 1o1 and other studies
Monday - Friday at the New Hope Men's Home
It is always changing so call 559-647-2203 and ask for Pastor Tom!
Tuesday's in the Thrift Store at Noon
Tuesday Nights at the Church - 6:30 P.M. -
Tuesdays at Starbucks (Shaw and 41) -8:15 P.M.
Philippians, The Confidence Factor.
Thursdays at Uncle Harry's - Fig Garden- 7:00 A.M.

One on One Bible Studies available upon request..
We want to partner with you in your growth.

Temple Skate Church

Tuesdays at the church - 6:00P.M.

Caryl's Closet

Ministry Thrift Shop
Tuesdays, 10:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.

Baptist Temple
The Fellowship of Joy
4141 N. Fresno Street - Fresno, CA.. 93726
Between Ashlan and Dakota - One and a half blocks from Highway 41
559-229-9379
tomsims1@compuserve.com

Pastor Tom Sims welcomes you.
His cell phone number is 559-647-2203
His email address is tomsims1@compuserve.com
Visit his blog, The Dream Factory
HTTP://PASTORTOMSIMS.COM

Read The Dream Factory

I dream. On a restless summer night in a pool of my own perspiration, I dream. In the quiet slumber of an October evening, I dream. In the quickening of the morning and the settling of the evening, I dream. And when I am awakened and as I move through the appointed day, my dreams do not die. Yes, they are tamed by civility and harnessed by realism, but they persist through the day.

My dreams have been cooled by the drenching rain of discouragement, but not quenched. They have been temporarily diverted by the icy onslaught of negative criticism and stilled by the paralyzing power of self doubt, but they emerge from the cold and persist. I dream on.

I refuse to stop dreaming.

I do not subscribe to the “All your dreams can come true; it can happen to you if you’re young at heart” philosophy. But I believe that our core dreams can drive us on to their own fulfillment in us as we submit to the One who has given them to us and who alone knows how to interpret them in our lives.

I believe that we were made to dream and that our dreams are the impulses that alert us to our significance. Yes, dreams can become distorted, self-centered, and wrongly inflated, but those distortions point to a deeper reality. Just as perversions of reality validate reality, dreams off center cry out for centering.

I dream on because my dreams are the impulses that validate my living. They remind me that I am not an accident, that my life has meaning, and that I am a part of a larger dream.

And if dreaming is so vital for me, I want to help others dream and refine their dreams, fleshing them out with goals and strategies, reinforcing them with prayer and conforming them to God’s will from whence their essence is derived.

I dream of a life as an encourager of the dreams God has planted in your heart. That is why I will spend the rest of my life and ministry as a Pastor-Coach.

I am not where I want to be. My church,

Baptist Temple, the Fellowship of Joy, is not where it needs to be. But I believe that where I am is not where I am going.

I dream on.

Come join me.

Read The Dream Factory

We have invested in our facilities as a response to our commitment to our community.