LETTER FROM
Vision 2026
PASTOR ERIC MORRIS
As we prepare to finish 2025 and head into 2026, I think it is important to provide context to our journey as a church. It is often said that you overestimate what you can do in a year, and underestimate what you can do in ten. In 2025, we took a very intentional step towards making room for more people. Our church sacrificed, we leaned into what the Holy Spirit was doing and opened our expansion. I wanted to wait an extra year to build more financial cushion, but God had other plans. And so far in 2025, we have seen 116 people be baptized already! This is 116 souls that have made public declarations of following Jesus. This is something to give praise to God for! We have also grown as a church by over 35%. The church is alive, because of your faithfulness. As we look to 2026, I keep hearing these words. More of the same. Eric, just keep being faithful. Eric, just stay the course. Eric, keep your heart close to mine. This may not be flashy, but it is hard. Often we get distracted. We get in a hurry or we experience setbacks and that throws us out of sync with God. The idea of just being really consistent isn’t sexy, but it is effective. Faithfulness is many times trusting God when we don’t see the results immediately. We think of faithfulness as the means to
the end. This is not what the Lord sees. The Lord sees faithfulness as the end. The goal is consistently walking with the Lord and consistently taking steps closer to Him. It is so easy in our world to have our head turned by the flash and glitter of someone else’s life, but Jesus sees our faithfulness to Him as the whole goal. Jesus taught us in John chapter 5 that if we abide in Him, we will be fruitful. He said, “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 Our job is to abide. His job is the fruit. Consistency isn’t apathy; it’s obedience. It’s worship when you’re tired. This is our aim as a church. To let us be faithful in our service. Let us be faithful in our sacrificial journey, let us be faithful in our devotional life. Let us be faithful to our first love, which is Christ. Let us look at what God has done in one single year and give thanks, and then with great expectation look forward to the next year, with our hearts full of faith, as we the church are God’s instrument for His Kingdom.
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