Hello Ray City!

To our friends at Ray City:

There are not enough words to express how excited we are over how God is working in our lives and in yours in bringing us to you for me to serve as Associate Pastor. We know God has been doing some great things and is going to continue to do great things in the days, weeks, and years ahead. We serve an awesome God and we are looking forward with anticipation to serving alongside of you as we reach the tri-county area and the world for Christ from Ray City, Georgia!
As we are all in the transition process over these next few weeks (we will be leaving Newton on January 7th) there are three things I need you to begin to do: 1) Pray, 2) Pray, and 3) PRAY! Seriously, unless all things are bathed in prayer they will be done in vain. Specifically, there are several items I would like for you to pray for:

• Pray for the sale of our house. As I write this letter, we are busy in the process of getting it ready for sale. We have already had one person contact us that is interested, so pray for God’s will in their lives. It would be great to sell the house without using an agent and as quick as we can.
• Pray for our movers and that we will be a witness to them. And also that all of our “things” will arrive in Georgia safely and on time.
• Pray for our mothers who are adjusting to having their grandchildren so far away.
• Pray for Chloe’ as she will be starting a new pre-school (and as we search for that school).
• Pray for the youth at First Newton as they are mourning the tragic loss of a friend and one of the top youth (Landon Burt).
• Pray for the mighty, amazing things that God is going to show all of us in the time ahead as we submit to His will and leadership and allow ourselves to be used by God in reaching others for Him! There is no better place to be!!

On a personal note, let me highly, highly encourage you to attend the screening of Fireproof on New Year’s Eve. This is a tremendous movie! Melissa and I have had the pleasure of seeing it twice. Once, in a pre-screening a month before it was released to the public, and second, when I took my youth to see it at the theatre. Although most of them are years from being married, it helped them to see what a true marriage relationship should look like, and had many of them, even a lot of the guys- committing to honoring Christ in their dating relationships and future marriage. Men, this is NOT a chick-flick! You owe it to your wife, children, and your Savior to man up and be the leader of your family in going to see this movie! I look forward to hearing many tremendous reports of how God is using this movie in the lives of our church.

Once again, we look forward to seeing all of you again next week!

ICS,
Jason S Knippers, Melissa, Chloe’, Kennedy, & Kaitlyn (and Holi- the dog!)