Dear Friends,

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR FRIENDS

New Year Message from Anglican Church of the Redeemer, Regina, SK, Canada

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Dear friends,

Finally, it is here - the much awaited 2010. I wish you happy, fulfilling and glorious new year and pray it will be a year of higher grounds for you in Jesus' name. Amen At the Anglican Church of the Redeemer, Regina, SK, Canada, we welcomed the year with a 2 hour prayers session (10:00PM -12:15am) yesterday. It is was a time of celebration and rejoicing. The Lord has been faithful to us in 2009, so we have reasons to rejoice. He added to us in number and strength in 2009. More people are taken on various aspects of the ministry from bible study leadership to music, children, and youth ministry. May His name be praised for ever. It is exciting to see how God is working in our midst especially in the life of our new members. Our praise night December 27, 2009 was unique - such as we've not seen in 4years. Thanks to all participants especially the music ministers. Thank you to those who have been praying and encouraging us. We are partners in ministry. Continue to pray for us & share whatever God lays in your heart with us. Our special appreciation to those who visited us in the year to share the Word especially Bishop Amos Fagbamiye & Pastor Femi Ogunrinde. To all our dedicated workers in the church, thank you. To the assistant priests, thank you for your services and labour of love in/to the church. It is a year to be remembered for good as a church. Welcome to 2010. Let me share with you part my exhortation to the church last night from Isa 43: 13 -19. You past can negatively influenced your future if not properly managed. I don't know your situation in 2009 but one thing I know is that irrespective of your failures and successes, God is till interested in doing greater things in your life. You are not a failure until you declare yourself a failure.18 “ Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert. (Isa 43: 18 -19)" No doubt Israel had her ups and downs, but the God of restoration encouraged them to forget yesterday (+ve or -ve), because he is in the process of doing things that are beyond human comprehension, - new thing, not just parching of the old or remodeling of the old, it is a new thing. He is in the process of doing things that will be vivid to everyone. It will not be hidden. God wants to work in your life in 2010. Don't let your past hold your future. Let God make a way/road (not just a narrow path) in the wilderness of your life and family. Let God bring forth rivers (not just drops of water) in the desert of your life. Let God work beyond the realm of your 5 senses. Let God break, mould and reshape you this year. I encourage you to submit yourself to him. The past can make you give up on God, it can make you limit God's ability, it can cloud your future and the past can also propel you to look forward to greater things. Remember from the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future. Let God do a new thing. As a church, we are declaring 2010 "Our year of Higher grounds". We want to move beyond the next level. We are not prepared to limit what God wants to do in our lives. We want to draw closer to him, have a new discovery of his presence. We are saying like Paul "that I might know HIM and the power of his resurrection ...... Phil 3:10" Our prayer is embodied in this song,

REFRAIN: Lord, lift me up and let me stand. By faith on heaven's table-land; A higher plane than I have found; Lord, plant my feet on higher ground. Lift me up to a higher ground.
VERSE 1 I'm pressing on the upward way, New heights I'm gaining every day, Still praying as I'm onward bound, "Lord, plant my feet on higher ground".
REFRAIN Lord, lift me up and let me stand...............
VERSE 2 . My heart has no desire to stay, Where doubts arise and fears dismay. Though some may dwell where these abound, My pray'r, my air, is higher ground.
REFRAIN Lord, lift me up and let me stand..............
VERSE 3 I want to live, above the world, Tho' Satan's darts at me are hurled; For faith has caught the joyful sound, The song of saints on higher ground.
REFRAIN Lord, lift me up and let me stand.............
VERSE 4 I want to scale, the utmost height, And catch a gleam of glory bright; But still I'll pray 'til heav'n I've found, Lord lead me on to higher ground.
REFRAIN Lord, lift me up and let me stand.....................
ENDING Lord plant my feet on higher ground! But still I'll pray 'til heav'n I've found, Lord lead me on to higher ground! Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
REFRAIN: Lord ift me up and let me stand ......................
Come with us as we move to higher grounds in every aspect of our life this year. To move to higher ground our anchor/passage of the Scriptures for the year is taken from Hosea 10: 12. 12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you (Hose 10: 12)." We will seek the Lord this year, We will break our fallow grounds this year, we will sow in righteousness this year because we know he will rain righteousness on us this year. Join us if you are in Regina and surrounding areas as we have a bible exposition on this text for first 6 -8 Sundays of the year at the Anglican Church of the Redeemer. I am looking forward to this few weeks of digging deeper into the Word. Join us as I share some insight into this passage of scriptures. We will continue to value your feedbacks and thoughts in 2010. Don't forget to send us quick note (s) on whatever God lays in your heart for us. Such messages will be great encouragement to me and the entire such of God in Christ as we continue our missionary journey/assignment in this part of the world. As you continue your journey in the Lord, I commit you to the lord who is able to keep you from falling, the LORD bless, and keep you; the LORD make his face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: the LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace". Amen Maranatha - The Lord Comes

Worship with us every sunday morning 10:00AM ; 8:00PM Wednesday (Prevailing prayer meeting @ WCC) and Night Vigil 2nd Friday of every month 11:00PM)

The Rev Olukayode (Kay) Adebogun MA, Mdiv HOME: 2 Hayes Crescent Regina, SK, Canada S4X 1B2 Tel: 306-545-8622 Fax: 306-545-8642 Email: olukayode@accesscomm.ca Personal Web Page: www.accesscomm.ca/users/theadeboguns CHURCH: Convocation of Anglicans In North America (CANA - Canada), Vicar Anglican Church of The Redeemer, Rosemount Community School, (4th Ave and Horace Street) P.O. Box 253, Regina, SK, Canada S4T 3A1 Web page: www.anglicanchurchoftheredeemer.com Email: olukayode@priest.com, or olukayode@anglicanchurchoftheredeemer.com

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