Greetings to all in Jesus Name from Pastor Charles Kitner
God's Plan
God has moved us out of our former church building and has brought us to the outskirts of Blairsville. We are moving ahead in God's plan for our part of His marvelous church. We are now meeting in the new building as our temporary place of worship until we can build a multi-use building. Morning worship services at 10:00 AM complete with a Children's church, and Wednesday evening Bible study at 7 PM. Sunday evening service has been temporarily canceled. Our programs have been somewhat limited at this time but the temporary inconvenience will be for a permanent improvement.
Building
We are currently in a building program that involves building a new building for our worship services and community outreach for the Lord Jesus Christ. The site is at 987 Old Wm. Penn Hwy, just outside of the town of Blairsville, going towards Indiana Pa.
Support
Please keep us in your prayers as we endeavor to serve the Lord in our community and in all the world through our prayers and the missionaries that we support. Your prayers and support are both needed and appreciated as we press forward in God's plan for us.
New Focus
Part of the new focus of our ministry will be for the church to become a Learning Center for the training of workers for ministries both here and around the world. This will be done with the materials available from many sources that are available to us. The thrust will be on the discipling of people as Jesus did. This will enable the student upon completion of the courses to go and minister to others. A computer learning center will be established at a point and on line courses will be available for those that want to participate in the on-line learning experience. Those courses will be conducted by facilitators.
The church is a lighthouse. We will send out light in all directions both to warn and to guide. We are as Jesus said lights in this world to dispell the darkness.
God is doing a tremendous work here and people are being healed and ministered too in the POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT. God's power is awesome. You are invited to come and see for yourself. Are you hungry for God? Are you thirsty for the water of life? Come and see...His awesome presence satisfies the longing of your soul. Do you want God with all your heart then He will be found of you.
Special Opportunity
We need God's resources to be opened unto us as soon as possible at this time. Would you pray with us and perhaps as God would lead you send us a contribution to help us in our work for the Lord?
Help Needed - with the original plans.
We will be working with a church builder on plans for our new Worship and Christian Education building. It will cost approximately 2.5 million dollars for the first phase of the building plans. The finished cost of three phases will be about 3.6 million dollars.
If you would like to contribute to our building fund you can send your tax deductible gifts to the following address.
- Our Address is as follows:
- First Assembly of God church
- 987 Old Wm Penn Hwy
- Blairsville, Pa. 15717
- Attention Pastor Kitner (Building Fund)
All gifts to the church are Tax deductible
- We have a problem and a good one. We need to build a bigger building for our Sunday services and other ministries NOW. We are looking for at least 100 people to give a donation of $1000.00 each now to help us get started with some construction on a multipurpose building. This would be also our worship center until we build another section of our buildings. We have dug a hole in obedience to the Lord's instructions and are in process of getting some real prices for the construction.
- The purpose of the building is not for the sake of having a large building just to have it. The purpose is for the sake of having room for all the people that God is sending our way. We need a larger building so we can have the facility to train people for the work of ministry. We need to have ministry available to as many as we can because there is a lot of work to be done for the sake of the Kingdom of God. The harvest is ripe unto harvest now and we need to train laborers for His harvest field.
Progress
We have completed enlarging out parking lot area to twice the size that it was originally. We also put in a new entrance and exit road of over 500 feet. This was done to direct entrance and exit traffic off the main heavily traveled road. It is much safer because people don't have to be concerned about cars coming up on them unexpectedly at a high rate of speed.
This roadway is also in preparation for much increased traffic as the church grows. We are planning for the future as the Lord leads us along.
Our sign is up and people are reading it daily. I am able for the first time to place timely messages out for all to see, in five inch letters. It is lighted and is able to be seen at night so our message goes out 24hrs a day now.
Stop Back
I will continue to publish our progress as God moves us forward in the work of the Kingdom.
Thank you and God bless you richly. Pastor Kitner