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Pastor's
Annual Report - 2009
2009 marked
the 18th anniversary of this church. For 18 yrs. T.A.P.C.
has made this part of God's creation a little bit better.
We've all been a part of that mission, if not always here,
then in some part of Christ's vineyard. We are committed as
a church! My question to you as we face 2010 - Are you
committed as a Christian to this mission we call T.A.P.C.?
In the
comic strip Peanuts, Lucy is talking to Linus while watching
Charlie Brown's little sister Sally crawl around the floor.
Linus asks: How long do you think it'll be before Sally
starts walking? Lucy: Good grief! What's the
hurry? Let her crawl around for awhile, don't rush her! She's
got all the time in the world. Once you stand up and start
to walk you're committed for life!
This church
is committed for life to witness for our Lord, Jesus Christ.
We have that heritage and challenge to keep going. Sure life's
hard and difficult! It's been said it's a lot like a football
game - sometimes you get blitzed! As we did this past year.
But look how far we've come! Look how far you've
come! Just before Helen Keller died; blind, deaf, and hurting
all the while, she whispered: "Ah then, but remember
friends, no effort, however little to attain something beautiful
is ever wasted." Wise are they who learn that:
"Trouble is temporary; Time is a tonic; Tribulation is
a test tube." So let's start were we stand..........
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Start
where you stand and never mind the past, The past won't help
you in beginning new, If you've left it all behind at last,
why, that's enough: you're done with it, you're through; This
is another chapter in the book, This is another race that
you've planned, Don't give the vanished days a backward look,
- START WHERE YOU STAND!
The
world won't care about your old defeats, If you can start
anew and win success, The future is your time, and time is
fleet, And there's much of work, strain, and stress; Forget
the buried woes and dead despairs, Here is a brand new trial
right at hand, The future is for one who does and dares, -
START WHERE YOU STAND!
Old
failures will not halt, old triumphs aid, Today's the thing,
tomorrow soon will be; Get in the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history; What has been, has
been; yesterday is dead, And by it you are neither blessed
nor banned, Take courage, people, be brave and drive ahead,
- START WHERE YOU STAND!
Will it
be a better world now that you're in it? - START WHERE
YOU STAND! with Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
Remember the Apostle Paul's words when he said: "Beloved,
I do not consider that I have made it my own; but one thing
I do. Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to
what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize
of the heavenly call in Christ Jesus!" Philippians
3:13-14
"Yes,
the boundary lines have fallen for us in pleasant places;
we have a goodly heritage". Psalm 16:6
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