Yesterday I shared with you one email I had received from someone who got baptized last weekend. With her permission, here’s another one.

Thank you! Best decision of my life. I am blessed to have you as my Pastor along with everyone else who stands beside you. Community has grown into my heart. I have known for a while that giving my life to the Lord is what I needed, what I wanted. As soon as you said the words on Sunday about being baptized, I knew that this was going to be my day to be reborn. Tears flooded my eyes, and I knew at that moment, the beginning of my new life was right now! Best feeling I have ever had. I thank you and Mikel for being so inspiring to all of us. You really speak to my heart and it feels good. My heart just fills with joy. I am eager to learn all I can. Finally, for once in my life, I feel free!!! Amazing Grace!!!
Thank you again,
Veronica

I love getting these kinds of emails. However, they’re just too good to keep to myself.

We are in this together! When someone feels loved and at home at Community, it’s not because of one or even 3 or 4 people. It’s ALL of us working together, loving together, accepting together, helping together.

What Veronica discovered at Community is what so many more people need. Get out there and ask them to come with you. They might just say, “YES!”

As you probably know, this past weekend was another amazing weekend at Community. 16 people got baptized and 14 of them decided right on the spot when they felt God’s call on their life. With permission I’m sharing one of the emails I received this week after I sent them a note to congratulate them on their baptism.

Hi Pastor Scott

Thank you so much for baptizing me. I was actually baptized once before when I was 12. However, at 32 I felt that so much has happened in my life that it was time to renew my faith.

For years my husband and I were trying to find a church we could both be filled in. At the time we lived in Torrance. When we moved back to Hemet to help take care of my mom the church I grew up in just wasn’t the same. In fact now it is totally gone. Then after my mom passed, my son was 3 weeks old. With napping schedules and being so hurt by my old church I didn’t want to go to church at all.

My sister in law bought me a new bible. It’s a women’s study bible NIV. For the first time in my whole life I was able to read the bible and understand it myself (and I’m pretty smart…at least I think so)! I then made it my mission to read my whole bible in a year. It was amazing and something I needed to do. Read and understand for myself. But my husband and I still knew we wanted to find a church.

We’d been invited to __________ church and even went several times. My husbands Aunt and Uncle go there. Nothing against them we just weren’t feeling it as our home church. Then one day we were in Rubios and a lady came up to us and invited us to Community Christian for Easter and gave us a flier.

My husband is a marketing guy, so he’s VERY picky on fliers and other marketing type stuff. Most stuff doesn’t meet his qualifications but your flyer did. We decided to look up Community Christian. We watched some of the online sermons and decided to check it out in person.

We really liked it for ourselves but what sold us was the 2 year old Sunday school. We came for the first time on Palm Sunday and for an entire week our son danced around with his Palm leaf he made constantly talking of “church.”

This is also the first time I’m seeing my husbands faith grow. I know he has believed for a long time but there was something missing.

I just know it was the Holy Spirt moving Sunday morning because I did not come to church with the slightest idea I was going to be baptized. In fact I was congratulating myself on how nicely I had done my hair and makeup that morning. But when the Holy Spirit says to move I’ve learned the hard way you move. I practically ran to the back of the church before I lost my nerve.

I know this was a long reply. Thank you again. I love the way God is moving in my family’s life. -Diana

I can’t help but wonder if the “lady in Rubio’s” was my mom. That’s how she rolls! Also, a huge thank you to JoAnne and the 2 year old teachers! Job well done!!

Lives are changing in this place.

Most of all, thank you God for all you did in Diana’s life leading her to this point and thank you for all You’re doing in all of our lives right now…today!

We wrapped up our What On Earth Am I Here For? series in style with 16 more baptisms this past weekend. Since Easter weekend, we’ve had over 60 people take the plunge! Amazing stuff!!

If you missed it all, you’re going to want to check out the final message of this series, YOU ARE CALLED TO BE SENT. We ended the series with a special commissioning service and I want you to be a part of this even if you weren’t able to be with us on the weekend. Watch the message and say the commissioning prayer with all of us at the end of it all.

Thanks again for being such an amazing church family. Have I told you lately that I love you? Well, I DO!!