MIDWEEK AT KING’S GRANT: Our Regular Midweek Activities. Midweek Cafe at 5:30 PM (Adults $8 and Kids $4) Make Your Meal Reservation HERE Praise Team Rehearsal at 5:00 PM in the Sanctuary Preschool Care at 6:15-7:15 PM Team Kid, Kids in Discipleship at 6:15-7:15 PM Student Bible Study at 6:15-7:30 PM in the Attic Adult classes at 6:15-7:15 PM Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal at 7:15 PM in Room 10
Family Ministry: Wednesday evening is the place for the whole family. Here you can find activities for Children and Students Teenagers have Midweek Bible Study at 6:15-7:30 upstairs in Room 205-207. Children are involved in Team Kid Discipleship, which includes both Bible learning, practical application, and choral music. Child care is provided for kids Birth through Pre-K.
Church Wide Events: Find the latest events happenings at King’s Grant. [ KGBC Events ]
Join this church wide effort to read through the greatest chapters of the Bible in 2025 and discuss what we discover, one chapter at a time. We will post reading guides and downloadable pages to give you every opportunity to make 2025 the best year ever in regard to your spiritual growth and biblical knowledge.
What is F-260 All About? The Bible tells us many spiritual truths that we need to know about: 1. WE MUST ABIDE IN CHRIST: “I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.” – John 15:5 2. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OUR TEACHER: “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you.” – John 14:26 3. WE LIVE LIFE IN COMMUNITY: “and let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds, not abandoning our own meeting together, as is the habit of some people, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.” – Hebrews 10:24-25
How F260 Works: 1. Read 1-2 chapters of the Bible each day, Monday-Friday. 2. Apply the HEAR Journaling Strategy: to Highlight, Explain, Apply, and Respond to the text for each day. Our goal is NOT to read the Bible through in a year, but to HEAR from God, a little each day. 3. Attend ONE Small Group each week, to discuss what the Holy Spirit taught you in your reading that week. What specific personal illumination or application does God have for you in his Word? 4. Weekends—Saturday is to catch up on reading, Sunday is to worship together.
Using the HEAR Strategy (Replicate Ministries): 1. H = Read the chapter and discover just ONE verse that jumps off the page, HIGHLIGHT that verse and meditate on it. 2. E = Now seek to EXPLAIN what that verse means. What is the context? What comes before and after the word, phrase, passage, or chapter? How does this relate to the rest of the book or the Bible? Is this literal or figurative language? Is the text prescriptive (to DO something) or descriptive (information)? What does the verse teach about Jesus, theology, myself, others, or God’s mission? 3. A = APPLY the text to your life. What does passage teach about God? What does it mean today? How can I apply it’s teaching? Is there an action or attitude that I must avoid or embrace? What is God saying to me? 4. R = How is God moving me to RESPOND to what I read today? Is there a call to action? Is there something God wants me to do or pray about? How does my life need to change or transform?
How Can I Get Connected?
Text only the word F260 to our church texting number: 757-330-3320
Ask to Join the Group. WHY? For updates and inspiration by occasional e-mails and texts (whether you attend group on Monday or read on your own or get involved in another F260 group – we’re all reading at the same pace).
You may join Scott’s group on Mondays at 6:00 PM or start your own group or read on your own. The point is reading God’s Word and letting the Holy Spirit speak to and teach you. The perk for joining a group is that we get to share what God is teaching us, hear what God is doing in the lives of fellow believers, and may encourage each other toward life transformation and application of God’s truth.
Self-Study Tools are Available: 1. The importance of CONTEXT: here is a description for every book of the Bible: [ kgbc.us/context ] 2. The importance of INVESTIGATION: find study questions for EVERY chapter of the Bible on our website: [ kgbc.us/questions ]
Additional Steps with ANY Verse: Is there a sin of which to confess/repent? Is there a person I need to love or forgive? Is there a person I need to encourage? Is there a person I need to confront? Is there a truth I need to remember? Is there a need that I can meet? Is there a place of service God has for me? Is there an error to avoid? Is there an example to follow? Is there a task that God has for me? Is there something I must surrender?
Raised by two godly parents in Richmond, Virginia, the Gospel was sown in me throughout my childhood. At age seven I understood that I did not have the relationship with God I was intended to have and that trusting in Jesus, who was fully God and fully human like me but without sin, was the answer to this problem. Though I did not understand the full nature of my sin and the nature of the work of Christ, I did know my need for Him and professed faith, being soon thereafter baptized. At age ten the reality of my sin and Christ’s death as a substitution for that sin became clearer and my Christian walk began in full at that point.
At the University of Virginia, I began to sense a call to full-time vocational ministry. I served in the local church with Clear River Community Church while also serving for three years as President of the UVA huddle of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. These opportunities afforded me the chance to learn how to lead in a ministry as well as chances to explore the ins and outs of ministry in the local church.
Upon graduation I began theological studies and ministry preparation at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC, where I also had the privilege to come under the mentorship and discipleship of Dr. Andrew Davis at First Baptist Church, Durham. In both capacities I was able to understand where God had equipped me for the service of His church, jumping into pastoral ministry under Dr. Davis for nearly a year, before pursuing full-time vocational work in ministry.
Teresa and I met during my transition to seminary on a missions trip to Romania. Quickly we fell in love and married in the spring of 2009. Teresa grew up in Virginia Beach where her parents, sister, and many extended family members still live, and still calls the beach home! She and I are blessed with two children, Aiden (11) and Charlotte (9), and, best of all, a Golden Retriever named Bennett (Go Hoos!). The kids enjoy playing sports, swimming, and video games. As a family we love being outside and so we can’t imagine a better place to live than the beach!
My wife and I have long been burdened for the nations and how God would use local churches to reach them. I love preaching God’s Word, meeting with members of the church for counsel and encouragement, as well as serving my staff and leaders helping them thrive in their ministries. Finally, I am passionate about local and international missions. Overall, I strive in all I do to glorify God by edifying and equipping believers to be called out of the world while immediately being sent back into it following King Jesus in the demonstration and declaration of His victory!
If you missed worship on June 9, here is the message from Dr. Patrick Edwards.
Block out the weekend of June 8-9 to meet our pastoral candidate! Our Pastor Search Committee will share a few details at the June 2 Family Meeting, one week prior to the big weekend.
On Saturday June 8, we will gather in the sanctuary at 6:00 PM for a time of introduction with questions and answers with our pastoral candidate, followed by a reception at 7:00 PM in the fellowship hall. Everyone is invited to participate.
On Sunday June 9, there will be one worship service at 10:00 AM (with no small groups or classes that day) followed by a special called business meeting to decide about calling this candidate to be our next lead pastor.
Until then, pray for God’s will to be done in the life of this family and in the life of King’s Grant
At the last Family Meeting (on December 3), we discovered that receipts are just keeping up with current expenses, however, when we put this information into context, it paints an interesting picture. If we plan to hire a new lead pastor and a full-time worship pastor (not to mention an office secretary) our current giving level will not sustain these desired positions.
So, your discipleship leadership team (in partnership with the finance committee) encourages you to be a part of a personal Bible study series on the stewardship of your life, which includes these important topics:
1) God’s Ownership Over All 2) Examples of Perfect Giving 3) Stewardship of Our Time 4) Stewardship of Our Bodies 5) Stewardship of Our Talents and Gifts 6) Stewardship of Our Possessions 7) Trusting God with Our Finances 8) Our Accountability to God
These lessons are not going to be taught in your Sunday class (like we did with the ReFocus Series). Rather, this series of lessons is for personal and family use. Perhaps many of our members have never studied in depth the topic of stewardship, which includes being good stewards of our time, talents, and treasure.
These lessons are now available at the church in the Welcome center and in the adult classrooms. We recommend going through one lesson each week (which has plenty of Scripture to read and reflect upon), allowing the Holy Spirit to guide your thoughts, your convictions, and your spirit regarding worshipful and intentional giving through your local church.
We may not realize this right now, but this is the reason we have a Transitional Pastor; Don is helping us get ready for our next lead pastor at King’s Grant. We want unity. We want togetherness. We want peace. We want wholeness and health… then we must get busy doing the necessary work for God to change us. The entire congregation is invited to this communication experience.
We will begin in the fellowship hall. If you need child care through grade six, please RSVP by sending an e-mail to Amy or use our staff contact form. Participants can expect some teaching on our ultimate communication tool (prayer), spending some time actually praying together under the leadership of the transition team, and finally, communicating with one another.
SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES: Fellowship and Refreshment Time – 8:30 until 9:00 Don Teaching on Transforming Prayer – 9:00 until 9:45 Breakout Groups Engaged in Prayer – 9:45 until 10:15 Break – 10:15-10:30 Don Teaching on Communication and Listening Skills – 10:30 until 11:30 Breakout Groups with Listening Session – 11:30 until 12:30 Don wraps up the Communication Experience by 1:00
Carey Nieuwhof gave a talk at the BGAV on November 15, 2022, and he had us take a look at the church in 2032, to see what that church did in order to survive and thrive in the decade prior.
A key lesson is that everything has changed. The methods of the past will not take us to where we must go in the future. Will we adapt or die?
It’s 2032. Here’s What’s Left of the Church.
Christian America Died. And the leaders who kept looking back never moved forward.
Growing churches are now digital organizations with physical locations. Dying churches saw digital church as an obstacle, growing church saw it as an opportunity.
The majority of church attendees are no longer in the room. Dying churches confined ministry to the building, growing churches did not.
On-demand access now greatly surpasses attendance of live events, on-demand access reaches people when they’re ready, not when we’re ready.
Growing churches shifted their focus from gathering to connecting.
Community and connection matter more than content consumption.
This is a Crash Course on all things King’s Grant, for regular attendees, new members, and church leaders (to make connections with new people). Signup by joining the group. Lunch is provided. Child care is provided.
Your pastor of discipleship had an epiphany in the middle of the night not all too long ago… making change in the church can often be like reading one of my favorite books as a child, Green Eggs and Ham. Let’s look at the two characters in this story.
Sam-I-Am is a pushy little pastor who embodies the spirit of global evangelism, relational discipleship, and life transformation by encouraging his people to always ask the question, “How can we make this church better than it already is?” and reach more people with the gospel. The summer of 2022 may appear to be an endless barrage of “time for change” and “something new is about to happen” language that the average church member may feel like the other character in the story. In Dr. Seuss’ story, Sam-I-Am is essentially breaking down the other character’s will to resist green eggs and ham by pestering him endlessly. I trust that “pestering” is not your actual feeling, but your discipleship leadership team is hoping that the congregation will see the ultimate benefit of this new schedule, which puts the church in a position of growth and simplicity. Sam-I-Am’s marketing scheme is simplicity itself: he keeps asking the other fellow whether he would like to try his strange, unappealingly colored product in a number of various and increasingly preposterous scenarios: here or there, in a box or with a fox, in a house or even with a mouse. How many of our people in your classroom have simply discounted the time change all together, even before we have done one day of the new schedule? They’re saying, “I do not like green eggs and ham, Sam-I-Am, you leave me be.” I seem to remember a line from my past, regarding the seven last words of a dying church — “We’ve never done it that way before.”
The other character in the story is twice as tall as Sam-I-Am but otherwise remarkably similar in appearance. His first words are that he doesn’t like Sam-I-Am, which seems to indicate that he has been the target of the little marketing genius’ advertising strategy before. It appears that from the start, Sam-I-Am is the enemy to be avoided, like he’s saying, “I’m not buying what this guy’s selling.” Pastors are like that. We come up with all sorts of ideas to reach people with the gospel and make church a better experience for outsiders, always asking the question, “What can be done to make church better” and “to reach more people?” The larger character starts out with a cold resistance to Sam’s non-stop sales pitch, but ultimately makes the worst mistake any consumer can ever make: agreeing to try the product as a means of getting the sales guy to finally stop. After tasting the unpleasantly colored ham and eggs, he discovers it tastes delicious and becomes a devoted and, likely, a lifelong raving fan of future ideas by Sam-I-Am.
I hope that months and years down the road, we can look back at the summer of 2022 and come to the conclusion that all the turmoil surrounding time changes, class schedules, worship style, and church leadership, perhaps seeing that none of these brought down the church like we feared it would. Perhaps the changes made this summer will actually benefit the vast majority of the congregation. We feel this schedule fixes the problems discovered with the 2021 schedule. We are positioning ourselves for growth. We will become proactive rather than reactive when it comes to people showing up because they sense God is at work here. We have to ask ourselves the hard question, “Will God show up here if we don’t follow his leadership?” Are we not really saying, “We just want to go back to Egypt no matter what may be waiting for us in the Promised Land.” So, here is the parable, “Try green eggs and ham, maybe just try them. You may just like them, we will see.” My friends, maybe, just maybe, this new schedule will work out very well, so the question that each of us must ask ourselves, “Why am I so unwilling to give it a go?”
I hope that Sam-I-Am, the pastor who is trying to help the congregation experience something new (to see if this schedule really does work better), that perhaps he will have earned your trust, acknowledging that he had your back all along, just encouraging all of us to grow in faith, follow Jesus closer, look at the needs of others more than ourselves, to reach people who have not yet walked through our doors, for us all to serve enthusiastically in ministry, and to intentionally welcome people with the love of Jesus as they enter this place. Even Jerry said, “The best is yet to be.” He did not say, “This is the best it will ever be.”
[ Borrowed from an idea from Timothy Sexton, at gradesaver.com ]
