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Mike Bitter Meets Pastor Jamie Hargett of Beaver City, Nebraska

 

I talked with Pastor Jamie Hargett about a lot of things to include the life of a rural pastor.  We know it’s hard for pastors nowadays and Pastor Jamie will talk about some of the tricks of his trade in Beaver City, Nebraska.

Mike Bitter Meets Pastor Jamie Hargett of Beaver City, Nebraska – Podcast

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Remember the Grass

Remember the Grass

Overview: God asks us to cultivate the ground, plant seeds of righteousness, then nurture them to maturity.  We all have seeds we can plant, but it’s easier to leave them in the container they came in and not do anything with the seeds we’ve been given.  God can’t work His Glory if seeds don’t get planted.

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Be Ready

Be Ready

Blessings abound when you align your life with God. You will have blessings like never before, but you have to be ready. You have to prepare for the blessings and be ready when the blessings come. I have a three step formula to pray for and receive your blessings.

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Growing His Kingdom

Wow!!  Can you believe it?  I’ve been the minister at Christian Church of Waterloo, Nebraska for just over a year now.  My, how time flies when you’re following the light.

By now it’s pretty obvious what I’ve been up to, and most people already know that I’m at a church in Waterloo, Nebraska.  It’s incredible how it happened.  It was all God.  Nevertheless, here I am.  I want to thank everyone who’s helped over the last several years.

Our Waterloo church is the start of something bigger.  We’re not sure what it is, but we know God will do something, again, that will dwarf anything we’ve seen or been through to this day.

Our plan is to build God’s Kingdom.  We’re not sure our place in all this, but we’re using what we know and doing what we can to get ready for His next move.  We’re concurrently moving in two different directions; connecting with rural pastors, get my sermons online.

It sounds easy, but there’s a lot of work to do. All we know is we have to reach beyond the building we call a church and start thinking like Jesus’ church which is the world.  “The Church” does not exist down the block, it is the block.

The church has to be be everyone everywhere, not just in a building on Sunday morning.  It’s how you talk to people, it’s what you say, it’s how you act when you think no one is looking.  Guess what…  God is looking.

So our goal is to get our message online and support rural pastors and help keep ministers in the pulpit and presenting the Word of God.  I don’t know where this will take us, so we just stay in the light.

We hope to see you in church this Sunday.  Our services are :

Sunday 10a

This service is traditional.

Wednesday 7p

This service is contemporary.

Flooding Has Gone, So Have Lives

Several weeks back we were in Beaver City, Nebraska.  The children in that small city of under 900 people raised enough money to purchase bibles for children flood survivors.

Yes, there are many, many child survivors too.  I’ve heard many stories from children of what their house used to be like.  It is quite moving.

During the meeting to accept the bibles a little girl asked if the flooding (water) was gone.  At that moment it hit me.  The flooding is gone, but the pain, the rebuilding, the new normals are there and always will be.  Only through time will the pain lessen and the rebuilding be finished.  No matter what happens, the Flood of 2019 will not long be forgotten.

Say a prayer or two for our work in and around the area.  We’ve never been involved in anything like this, so through a lot of this we are “flying by the seat of our pants”.

 

Blessings to you and yours.

Pastor Mike.

Thank You to the Electricians

I want to say a special thank you to the electricians who came by the church last week to trace wiring and fix some issues we’ve been having.  Thanks Mark and Bill for dropping by and sharing your knowledge.  The doors at Christian Church of Waterloo are always open to you.