Pastor Joshua M. Irmler

The music at Ambassador Baptist Church has always blessed my heart. This year we we are continueing to develop the quality of our music program in a number of different ways. One way is through the creation of ensembles. Each ensemble has been given a group name, a leader, practice times each week, and a list of songs to learn. 

The group above is the ABC singers. They did a tremendous job singing recently at our Spring Bible Conference. Special thanks to Tom Boonstra for leading this group and to Ben Crownover for his support of our music program.

Over the past few months we have been working at cultivating a nucleus of spanish folks through which to start a spanish worship service . We have began by starting a spanish adult class a few months ago and then last week we officially held our first spanish service. Praise the Lord!

The special music was wonderful, the preaching was great (at least I am assuming since I don’t technically understand spanish myself yet), and the spirit was dynamic. Pray that the Lord would give us the wisdom on how to proceed in ministering to the spanish speaking folks in the Fresno area in the months ahead. 

A few weeks ago I invited the city councilwomen for our district to come and attend church with us. She was so kind to oblige this past week and it was a wonderful priviledge to have her as our guest. 

It is our prayer that the Lord will continue to open many doors of opportunity to us here in Fresno as week seek to minister to those all around us.

I can’t get over how incredible our God is, I have been meditating on Ephesians 3:20 all day today; Now unto Him that able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us.”

This verse perfectly describes our Easter services here at Ambassador Baptist. Over the last three weeks our church family has been passionate about getting out the word about our special Easter services. Nearly seventy-five people a week gathered for the sole purpose of inviting our community out to our special Easter services. By God’s grace we were able to get to ten thousand homes and personally invite folks to visit with us. 

Yesterday, God showered us with incredible blessings. We were so packed several folks had to sit in the lobby and a some of them couldn’t even see the preaching, So they just sat there and listened. We were privileged to see seven adults saved, over fifty first time guests just in the main service and a total of two-hundred and forty nine individuals come onto our campus and hear the gospel plan of Salvation. What a blessing, Praise the Lord!

This year we had the opportunity to put together our very first video as a church. Special thanks to Daniel Diaz a member of our church since May of 2008 for producing the film, and Larry Chappell for animating the logo.