Ikoro local church

17/09/2024

Hi,fellow christian
Ikoro local church has a church planting program which has yet start soon
we ask you all to us in prayer for this project to kick-over
may the will the Lord be done
Amen

Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God. Psalm 43:5

20/10/2023

The heart of God
"This Good News about the Kingdom will be preached through all the world for a witness to all people; and then the end will come." -- Matthew 24:14 (Good News Translation)
Matthew 24 and the End of Times
They rarely point to Jesus' words in Matthew 24:14 in which He said the ultimate End Times sign is the preaching of the gospel to all people.
One question to be raised about Matthew 24:14 is: What exactly does it envision? Does it mean getting the gospel to every single person on earth? The term translated as "people" in Matthew 24:14 is plural and thus could or should be rendered as "peoples." In this sense, Matthew 24:14 could mean having a viable Christian witness within every single ethnic and people group.
To be sure, whatever is envisioned, great progress has been made in accomplishing that task. The Good News of Jesus Christ is being preached today in more places around the world than ever before. Nonetheless, we still have a ways to go. At least 5,000 distinct people groups have no viable church-planting movement in their midst.
Many of the doomsday "signs" which people seize on are things that generate fear. The sign Jesus gave in Matthew 24:14 -- the gospel being proclaimed everywhere -- should do the opposite. The thought of all people hearing clearly the Good News should generate delight at what will happen as we approach End Times.
If Matthew 24:14 is true, then declaring the Good News to the ends of the earth is not something optional. It has to be accomplished. Will we be an obedient part of making it happen?
Church planting is not an option-it is a priority we never afford to sit back and be glad of what we already have, when there is so much ground to capture. Church planting is God’s method of bringing in the harvest. It needs to be approached with vigor of an army that knows it can’t lose
We need to understand that we have been given the power of destroying the work of darkness and see the glory of God fill our world. This will be done when Christians from all walks, of all nationalities and all social groups bands together with a passion burning in their hearts to plant churches for the glory of God.
May I reserve May 19, 2024 for next year’s Day of Prayer for Ikoro local Church Planting.
May I ascertain a prayer for Ikoro local church to Start A New Church Planting Work. Let it be the beauty of prayer during our church planting. As we pray before our church planting activity, it will help us in focusing our evangelistic activity to narrow and point to place where we can start our new work
May God do His Will.

05/02/2023

“Happiness depends on ourselves.” More than anybody else,happiness as a central purpose of human life and a goal in itself. As a result, devote more space to the topic of happiness than any thinker prior to the modern era.
That is, happiness depends on the cultivation of virtue, though his virtues are somewhat more individualistic than the essentially social virtues of the Confucians.

I’ve studied many worldviews, but none comes close to the biblical worldview in accounting for all the facts of our existence—including our longing for happiness.

05/02/2023

Isaiah 41:10
Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.
Proverbs 3:5–6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Psalm 37:4–6
Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.
Psalm 9:10
And they that know Your name will put their trust in You: for You, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek You.

I’ve studied many worldviews, but none comes close to the biblical worldview in accounting for all the facts of our existence—including our longing for happiness.

15/07/2021

Hi,
Please ask for the Lord Jesus to kindly bless us as we seek to plant a church in Ikoro community.Ikoro local church Pastor and church planter churchplant.com and I covet prayers for boldness with the gospel, for the God-given ability to love others and, specifically, for partners in this ministry endeavor.

13/04/2020

Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to Him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20–21
Father, I need Your mighty power to work within me

09/03/2020

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09/03/2020

We use Facebook as our primary church events calendar. This means that we create Facebook events for each worship service, youth event, bible study, fun event, etc. We use a plugin that automatically imports these events to our website calendar. It is a little tedious because Facebook doesn’t handle repeating events as well as it could. You have to manually create or copy an event for every instance. However, we have found that Facebook events are a great way for our members to invite their friends (in the church and outside). This work really well for our fun events. If we do a guy’s pizza night, we will send out an invite to our guys (we are a smaller church). Many will RSVP through that they are coming. This is a great way to get things on their calendars. Another great benefit of using the Facebook Calendar is that it allows multiple people access to events. If something comes up at the last minute, our small group leaders can cancel an event or change on Facebook and everyone knows and the website is automatically updated. For a long time, I was doing all our online stuff and the bulletins (my church is a church plant). We create images for all our events, but we have our bulletin set up in such a way that we can reuse them there. This saved me a ton of time and energy.
2) Online Prayer Group
We have created a Facebook prayer group for our church that allows members to share requests and others to comment. This has really taken off in the past few months as we have made people aware of it. Any group member can share their prayer requests and others can post comments. There are a couple of benefits of this over a prayer chain. First, anyone can post something when it happens. If an accident happens at night, they can post it before staff gets in and others can pray. Second, it creates interaction. People will often post that they are praying for the situation, which helps people know they are not alone! We have it set as a closed group, which means that the public can see that the group exists, but only people in the group can see what is posted inside the group. You can use different settings. We have it set up so that people need to ask to become a member (or can be added by others) and confirmed by admins (pastor and elders).
3) Introduce New Worship Songs
Another thing that we have started to do is post links to YouTube videos of worship songs. We only post songs that will be completely new to the congregation and we usually post it a few days before we hope to introduce it. Not everyone will watch it, but we find it is a great way for those that do to learn the song before they come. This helps them to sing it better on Sunday!
4) Timeline Cover Art
We use our church’s Timeline Cover photo to promote our sermon series and special events. We find it keeps our page fresh since it changes every few months. It also let’s visitors know what is going they can expect when they come on Sunday!
5) Interesting Articles and Quotes
One area that I was really challenged by Justin Wise’s The Social Church is that 80% of our posts should ad value to our online community rather than just be requests or self-promotion. We have started to link to a couple of different articles each week. This may seem like a lot of work. Honestly, it doesn’t have to be. When I come across an interesting article or quote for sermon prep, I will often post it immediately. I also use Evernote to store it in a notebook geared towards Facebook. About once a week, I go in and create posts with links to these articles and schedule them to post throughout the week.
6) Church Event Photos
You need to be a little careful on this one. It is always best if you can get permission from people to do this ahead of time. We have started to post photos of events we have done and tag the people in them. This not only gives visitors to our church’s page a glimpse of what is going on in the church. If you tag people, these photos show up in their Facebook feeds for their friends to see. It is a subtle way that you can get the word out about your church and what it is doing.