Weekly Sermons

The Why the What and the How

This is the annual time when I get to urge our Tabernacle Family to live by the collective purpose that God has given us in God’s word.

The why our church does what it does is the same why every individual Christian is to do what they do – for the glory of God – to seek to bring God the love and praise He so richly deserves.

The Mission of the Tabernacle is to reproduce faithful and fruitful followers of Jesus Christ.

The How is our TABERNACLE Acronym

Teaching of Scripture
Adoration and Prayer

The 8-week prayer challenge: For the next 8 weeks (until VBS), fast through at least 1 meal a week as you pray for many people to be saved in church and at Vacation Bible School).

Baptist Principles
Evangelism and Missions

Even with the Pandemic stall, we have baptized 113 people since 2017; In the comparable time before I came the Tabernacle baptized 101 people. I baptized 216 people in my first 8 years at my previous church.

We budget roughly $8,250 a month for our church ministries; $6,500 a month for missions we support within a 2-hour drive; $3,600 a month for missions in North America; $6,500 a month for global missions.

Including our Christmas Offerings, we have given over $2,250,000 to missions since 2017 and taken 137 mission trips; In the comparable time at my previous church it was $750,000 and 119 trips.

Radical Generosity

Here’s where our giving stands after the 1st quarter:
1st quarter 2025 budgeted:     $280, 251
1st quarter 2025 received:    $280,087
1st quarter 2025 spent:     $265,528

Tabernacle Board: Richard Chivvis, Chair; Duane Adams, Dan Harper, Stacy Morris, David Thompson, J.J. Vogltanz.

Nurtured Partnerships

We mean two things by “Nurtured partnerships.” We mean the sense of partnership we have with each other in the church family. But we also mean the sense of partnership we have with the ministries we support.

Age-Appropriate Ministries

42 Babies dedicated since 2017/ 40 in comparable time at previous church.

Congregational Love and Encouragement

We have had 120 deaths since 2017/ it was 44 in the comparable time in my previous church.

Leadership Development

Excellence and Fun

Let me urge you to join me in being grateful for our past; sober-minded about our present challenges; and looking forward in faith to all God has for us!