A Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity
Dear fellow recipients of God’s grace, mission, and gifts at Living Hope,
I write you about a once-in-a-generation opportunity we share.
Through Christ Jesus our Savior, you and I have received “matchless mercy, forgiveness, and grace.” To God’s name be glory! Through Christ Jesus our Savior, you and I have been “sent forth to speak pardon and peace” to our neighbors. To God’s name be glory! Through Christ Jesus our Savior, God has “taught our lips to sing glory and praise” and to reflect his praise in our lives by using his abundant gifts of time, talent, treasure, and truth. To God’s name be glory!
You and I have the opportunity to proclaim the Good News of God’s grace in Christ through Word and sacrament in our community of Midlothian, within the greater Richmond area, around central Virginia, and throughout the world.
Following God’s mission, we as a congregation have decided together to expand our worship, fellowship, education, and office spaces. Under God’s blessing, this program will facilitate the growing ministry of our church family: tripling the number of souls we can reach in Midlothian, positioning us to daughter congregations in central Virginia, and contributing to training Gospel ministers in the world.
We launch this program not for ourselves. The new building God enables us to create together will serve not ourselves, but our neighbors. The congregations God enables us to start will pass on our confession of the true faith to our children. The Gospel ministers God enables us to equip will serve in the U.S., on the world mission field, and back here in our own mission field of Virginia. We as leaders at Living Hope pray that you will join us generously and joyfully.
Not unto us!
In Christ,
Ryan Olson