It's a shame to hear about how other churches treat people and how people just go there on Sunday to get their fix or do their time. It is so true. I have been to many churches like that myself and it makes it hard to go there and worship. It's even tougher when you go there and do not feel the Lord in it.
Thank you, Jesus that's all over for me. I have finally found the....Jesus led me to the perfect church.
It is called the Potter's House Family Worship Center located in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
It is awesome. You can really feel the Lord moving in that church and I wish you could all experience it just once. You don't have to wear a suit to be accepted or have a doctorate either.
You can wear jeans and a t-shirt and even bring your bottled water in with you. We have almost an hour of praise and worship music and then an hour of service. Forty-five minutes to an hour anyway.
Pastor Ron Ives is very cool and laid back. It is the first church that I have actually looked forward to going on Sundays. I even stay for both services sometimes. He delivers the same message but its not verbatim. One service starts at 9:00am and the second starts at 11:00am.
His wife, Pastor Carla Ives runs the Reach the Children World Ministries and is a wonderful woman. They know everyone in the congregation by name and I am not exaggerating when I say that. The ones that he doesn't know by name are the visitors or newest people to the church.
In fact, he just invited my wife and I over to his house for a cook out in two weekends from now along with some other couples. I have been only going there for just over three years and already am in charge of the Dinners and Socials ministry. My team is in charge of getting and making food for special events. For instance, "Homecoming" dinners, (I had him change the name from funerals to homecomings), or church picnics and such like that. This Sunday is the Youth Missions Fundraising Dinner and my team has to make the spaghetti dinner for it.
Lets take that dinner for example. It doesn't cost anything to attend, they are taking a freewill donation after the dinner and you don't have to donate if you don't have any money. You can still attend the dinner if you'd like without donating money. We are not a money hungry church. No one is looked down upon for not having or tithing money either.
We have a food storehouse and hand out food every first and third Friday of the month and there are no pre qualifications to get the food. Anyone can come and we give out fifteen pounds of food per person. I work on that ministry team and I am on the hospitality team. The hospitality team are the ushers and such.
It is a very family friendly church and I am truly blessed to be a member of it.
I think you can learn about the Reach the Children World Ministries on the web and if you can't you can reach them at
Reachthechildren@msn.com for info.
Anytime you get to Mount Pleasant Michigan where Central Michigan University is, stop in and see us. You will be pleasantly surprised and your heart will be full of the Lord's love.
We have guest speakers alot and recently had Tommy Tenney of the Godchaser's Ministry there. What an outstanding time that was.
Sorry for the long post.