ABC Singers

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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.

Published in: on May 5, 2009 at 3:13 pm Leave a Comment

Fundamental Impact Launched!

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I am excited to announce that last week we were able to kick off Fundamental Impact. This site is designed to be a helpful resource for Pastor’s and people in ministry. Everyday we will be posting free resources, and then the first full week of June we will be having our Grand Opening Celebration. That week we will be giving away an iPod shuffle, Logos software, Free tracts, a web-site, books and more. 

I would like to ask you to review the site, leave your comments, and if you think it would be helpful to others, I’d like to ask you to forward the link along to any ministry friends you may have. 

Please let us know if you if there is anything we can add to this to make it more helpful and valuable to you.

Published in: on May 4, 2009 at 9:33 pm Leave a Comment

Launching the Fundamental Network!!!

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We are officially launching the Fundamental Network. FN will be a series of four web-sites that we prayer will be a help and encouragement to ministry leaders. Daniel Irmler has been spear heading this project. He has literally spent hundreds of hours on these projects over the last three months. 

Fundamental Media will continue to provide great resources for your church and ministry at prices that are rock bottom. Fundamental Web will be offering web sites. And Fundamental Impact will be your resource hotspot for everything ministry related and the best part F! is absolutely free. Check it out we are giving away some great stuff this week just for posting comments!

Let us know if there is anything else we can do to serve you better!

Published in: on May 1, 2009 at 2:41 am Comments (1)

Ashlyn’s First Time in Main Preaching Service

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Ashlyn just turned four which means she officially joins the main preaching service for Sunday evenings. She absolutely loves it, as you can tell. The above picture is her at the end of my message that first night.

Published in: on April 30, 2009 at 10:50 pm Comments (2)

Ambassador’s First Official Spanish Service

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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. 

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Published in: on April 24, 2009 at 6:22 pm Leave a Comment

District Three City Councilwomen: Cynthia Sterling

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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.

Published in: on April 22, 2009 at 6:33 pm Leave a Comment

Spring Advance

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Recently I had the opportunity to preach for Brother Jacques Van Rooyen at his yearly spring advance up at Lake Tahoe. It was absolutely beautiful up there and it is always such a privilege to preach to his students. 

I am excited for Brother Van Rooyen and he prepares to launch into deputation this fall and gets ready to move his family to China. We are looking forward to having him and his family at our Mission’s Conference with Dr. Don Sisk this coming October. 

Below is a picture of Lake Tahoe taken from the iPhone. 

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Ashlyn’s First Professional Haircut

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We recently took Ashlyn to get her first professional haircut. She thought she was a princess. She did very well, and didn’t complain a bit. We saved some of the hair for memories sake. Thank the Lord for children, they are such a blessing.

Published in: on April 21, 2009 at 6:48 pm Comments (1)

Resurrection Sunday ‘09

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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!

Published in: on April 14, 2009 at 5:27 am Leave a Comment

Ambassador’s 2009 Stewardship Video

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.

Published in: on April 10, 2009 at 4:10 pm Comments (2)