Show me the Love!

This month at HMOC is SHOW ME THE LOVE MONTH. We have reached out to our community in different ways every week. The first week our womens ministry along with our PowerHouse Kidz programvisited local nursing homes with small care packages, smiles, and love to many senior citizens.Last week, our Fusion Youth distributed 100 bags of groceries to random people in random neighborhoods. Seeing that many young people take thier saturday to offer help to others, was amazing!
This week our Man 2 Man Men's Ministry will be going to homes and repairing plumbing, minor electrical, painting, and other issues that folks cannot fix or afford to fix themselves. The last week we will be providing, diapers, baby wipes, and other essentials for teen mothers or expectant teen mothers.

Some say - why do boast or share this - shouldnt this be done in secret - NO! When we as Christ Followers serve - reach - and SHOW LOVE to others - it is a testimony - an example of what knowing Christ is all about....GOD IS LOVE.  So when we ask HIm to change our lives -- we too are becoming like him - that is the definition of CHRISTIAN---CHRISTLIKE. So as we strive to become more like who he is....we not only need to talk about the things of God - but DO the things of God.

Why did Jesus feed the 5,000, was it just because the people were hungry - no way, he was able to encourage and enlarge the faith of thousands by showing the GREAT possibilities of what can happen with FAITH AND LOVE. He must have wanted everyone to know, to see it, and to experience it, or he wouldnt have had it recorded in the greatest, most read book ever....THE BIBLE.
1 John 3:18 (New Living Translation)

 ¹⁸ Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions.

I want to thank the great folks of HMOC for the demonstration of love they show not only during SHOW ME THE LOVE month -- but every month! They are a great group of people who have seen the change that a relationship with Christ can bring - and now are being the change to hundreds of others!

1 John 4:8 (New Living Translation)

⁸ But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

As Christfollowers, we can do many things, reach many people, give out more popsicles than the next church, have fancier pews, and a bigger steeple, but if we dont give LOVE - we are missing it!

 Corinthians 13:2-6 (New Living Translation)

² If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. ³ If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;^[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

Today - let us all show love - somehow, someway, and in doing so, we will not only begin to let others realize the change that Christ can bring - but in actually we are showing them CHRIST. GOD IS LOVE!

Reach somebody......"WHATEVER IT TAKES"