Pastor's Corner

Dear Wyebrook Family,

It is a wonderful joy to press on into the new year with you all! Praise God for His tidings of great joy that the world celebrated this season, but that we experience every day! (Luke 2:10-11) Even though our second night of caroling was halted due to weather, I am thankful for those we were able to reach with tidings of joy. We were even able to go into Little Anthony’s and share the good news with them there. They shared a blessing in return by letting the kids have free ice cream bars. 

As a new year enters, we often tend to look into how to improve ourselves or grow in the coming year. May I encourage you to look at improving and growing your prayer life. I am thankful and encouraged by our congregation and the desire you all have to care for one another (a great example is our angel tree), but I do not want to overlook or understate the importance of our prayers. 

There is a depth to our prayer life that impacts and spills over into every aspect of what we do. When you pray for someone else, you learn to pay attention to them to find out what needs praying for. When you thank the Lord for your friends and family, you start to appreciate more of the fellowship you have. When you praise God for your blessings, you think less of what you don’t have and more of what you do. Prayer changes us, and I pray that we all can increase in our desire to be in constant communication with our Lord and Savior.

We are looking forward to a trip with the men of our church to the Men’s Prayer Advance in Roanoke, VA at the end of this month. This is a wonderful time of fellowship and challenge to our spiritual walk that I hope all of the men would consider to do. I also want to remind our church of our prayer sheets that we have in the display boxes by the front doors. If you have specific prayer requests, please share them with my wife or I, and we can add them to this list. If you don’t have one, please grab one as they are updated weekly with new requests for our church to pray for.

I look forward to following and serving the Lord with you in this new year, and I pray we each encourage one another to earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints (Jude v3).

James 5:16 “…The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

In the Savior’s Love,
Pastor Kenneth Miller