March 2009 Rhodes Family Church Planting Update

Dear Family and Friends,

Another month has come and gone here in Chico. We have been settling well and really like it here. It is a beautiful place full of many great people. We started a Bible Study this month that we are excited about. We have a couple of college students that consistently come and are a joy to have. We are excited to see the study grow as we learn together what it means to be God’s church in Chico.

We are going to be getting involved in some service projects in the area. We will be serving the Easter Meal at the local homeless ministry, called the Jesus Center. We are also looking into to some partnership with the United Way and possibly Habitat for Humanity.

Our prayer requests for this month are that we would meet people who are excited about our vision and eager to get involved. We pray that God would walk before us as we move forward with reaching out to the needs of the community and reaching out to those to who do not know Him. We are also asking for prayer that we would be able to start another Bible Study on a different evening out of another family’s home. We think we may have a family for this and they are prayerfully considering it.

We also have many praises. We praise God that through this time of economic crisis He is still providing for us. Whenever we think we aren’t going to make it, we do and that is only because of him. We praise God for all of you who have continued to faithfully give in spite of this current economy. We also praise God that we are meeting people and developing relationships, with both Christians and Non Christians alike.

Thank you so much for all your prayers and financial support. We are constantly being blessed by your faithfulness and your partnership with us. As we have said so many times we could not be here doing this if it weren’t for your faithfulness in God and in us. If you have not yet sent in your monthly support for March please do so at this time. Don’t forget that you can also sign up for automatic debits at www.sunergeo.org/donate. We have reached our first fundraising goal, but we still have another goal to meet by the end of December so if you haven’t committed support to us yet and would like to you may also go to the above website to do that as well.

Blessings!
Jeremy and Elizabeth Rhodes

Email: pastor.jdr@gmail.com