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FIFTH SUNDAY OFFERING

As is our custom, our fifth-Sunday church school offerings go to support the ministry of Nancy Cox in Belize. The Session encourages us to continue to share in Nancy's ministry. On March 30, we will have the opportunity to show our love and support of Nancy. Pray for the Lord's guidance in this matter.

"In speaking of the Spirit's work in revival these evangelical leaders [of the Great Awakening] were not disparaging the reality of his normal and regular work in the church. They were far from believing that true Christianity can only spread in the manner that it did in 1740. They were simply affirming that there are times when the Spirit is given in exceptional measure and that such times may come suddenly, even when deadness is general in the church and indifference to biblical religion prevails in society at large. There are eras, said [Samuel] Davies, when only a large communication or outpouring of the Spirit can 'produce a public general reformation.' Thus, preaching on 'The Happy Effects of the Pouring Out of the Spirit' from Isaiah 32.13-19, he argued that 'the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the great and only remedy for a ruined country -- the only effectual preventative of national calamities and desolation, and the only sure cause of a lasting and well-established peace.'" -- Iain Murray, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism, 1750-1858.

Ebenezer continues to support Nancy Cox by sending our Sunday School offerings from the fifth Sundays to her work in Belize. Pray for this missionary outreach endeavor, and pray for Nancy's ministry.