Special warm greetings to all of you from Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, in Vinita, Oklahoma, where we celebrate the 129th anniversary of Pilgrim Church.
For six years at Pilgrim Church, I always sensed a feeling of thrill and humility to preach, and to serve Communion, as the congregation celebrated its birth on the Sunday nearest All Saints Day (Nov. 1, 2011).
To be in the company of an unseen cloud of Christians (Hebrews 12:1) who risked everything by leaving the comforts of their homes in the east to cross a hostile terrain to Oklahoma, with the good news of Jesus Christ, makes me feel very humble.
Humbling, yes, but it is also challenging to have entered into their labors. Each generation is a link in a chain of Christian discipleship. We must see to it that ours is not a weak link!
Let us run with patience the race that is set before us. In that way we will be true to them, and to our Lord, who is the same yesterday, today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)
God is with you!
With blessings and in friendship,
Richard
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