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10/31/2026

To all the littles out there trick-or-treating today, Happy Halloween!

10/30/2026

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10/29/2026

Happy Thursday to you!

I am going to get vulnerable here, so fair warning. From the time Chelsey and I learned we would be having a baby, almost 11 years ago, we argued over what kind of parents we would be. I have always had hard expectations for my kids. I have said, “I am not raising them to be good kids; I am raising them to be good adults.”

Well, the other night I had a nightmare that kept me up the rest of the night. In the dream, Charleigh was abducted, and I went full Liam Neeson: “I will find her.” I found her in the next neighborhood over, and when I ran up to the house, Charleigh came out and calmly spoke the most chilling words to me: “Daddy, it’s okay. They love me here. They let me have fun and laugh here.” Then she hugged me, turned around, and walked back into the house.

I have had this expectation that I need to be the best dad I can be. I have high expectations because I am called to father my children to be good adults. But over the last decade, I have fathered with an iron fist. I have taken the charge to raise my kids personally. I haven’t trusted God to lead my kids; I haven’t parented by faith. To be honest, I have done the opposite. This dream has stirred me to compassion for my kids. They are sweet, they love the Lord, and they love me as Daddy. But still, the words of Colossians 3:21 have echoed in my heart since last week’s nightmare: “Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.”

I am asking you: What part of your life have you failed to keep faith in? What part of your life have you taken the reins of and not let go?

I am confessing this to you as my church. I am encouraging you to lean into God today. I am encouraging you to take heart, remove the shroud of ego and selfish ambition, and allow God to do the work we cannot do.

I am praying for you today, and I am greatly encouraged by you this week.

All my love,
Pastor Justin

10/28/2026

10/27/2026

Our Sunday service begins @ 11am. Join us!

10/26/2026

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10/24/2026

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10/22/2026

Happy Thursday,

I hope you are having as good of a week as I am!

Yesterday at the Project Thirty6 food pantry, we served over 750 families, and we had over 30 volunteers between the pantry and the clothing closet. I am always amazed at what God does. But the thing that stuck out to me is something I would challenge us all to lean into and explore.

For the past year, I have been trying to be the leader of the church and the leader of most of her ministries. I have kept my hands on just about everything. This summer, as some of you may know, I started trying to let go. Although the process was tough, I was able to let go, and for the first time in a long time, at the pantry yesterday I was able to simply be me: Justin, the lead pastor of Hillside Church. I was able to float around, talk to people, and be relational. This is a huge departure from where I was just a month ago.

The reason this is so huge is something I believe you should take a look at too. I have been operating outside of my unique gifting. Ephesians 4 tells us that we are each equipped, or gifted, to be a specific part of the whole body. Yesterday I was able to operate in my unique gifting: to love on people, be relational, and be me.

I wanted to write about this because, honestly, I wasn’t entirely sure what that unique gifting was until I started thinking about it. So I ask you the question today: What is your unique gifting? What did God uniquely create you to do? And the follow-up to that: Are you doing everything in your power to remove the distractions and aspirations that could cloud that unique gifting?

I challenge you to seek out that unique gifting and chase after it. Why? Because God has shown us GRACE so that we could live a new life glorifying Him, and what better way to glorify God than to do the thing He created you for?

I am praying for you, and I pray that you search for that unique gifting.

All my love,
Pastor Justin

10/19/2026

Join us for Sunday Service at 11 am!

10/19/2026

What is holding you back?

I'm not talking about what you'd admit to, I'm talking about what you carry behind the smile. The shame you keep running from, the past you can't quite leave there, or the control you grasp at while losing it.

Sunday we are starting a new series asking the simple question, what does it look like to be entirely UNCHAINED? Not UNCHAINED from consequences, but finally UNCHAINED from running.

God shows up in prison cells, on desert roads, in the middle of storms and sets us free from exactly what we thought we'd carry forever.

Come as you are, leave UNCHAINED. ⛓⛓

Address

1116 Hill Rd
Flint, MI
48507

Opening Hours

10:30am - 12:30pm

Telephone

+18102322674

Website

http://www.hillsidegb.com/

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