The  manse family

Having started up two new ministries in the last few months – Thirsty and Cameo –

I feel we start this coming year with a feeling of anticipation

and excitement as to how God will work through us a fellowship. 

Holding to our motto text we will seek to hold unswervingly to all God calls us to be in Christ,

and also strongly encourage one another as we work together and also reach out, knowing our foundation is firmly in God’s love. 

As we move forward this year we need our roots to be firmly in Christ,

so that we may branch out further and further as His people, and also grow within our individual lives. 

Christ Himself is the vine and we are the branches;

we will bear fruit only with Him as our guide, and so we need to look to Him. 

His own words are true for us as we go through 2010:

“Remain in me, and I will remain in you.  No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. 

Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.” John 15: 4.