Dennae meets Jesus and a new church is born!

This week has been momentus for the DeVries family. The most significant events include the fact that our oldest daughter, Dennae, made a profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior on Thursday night. She has been struggline spiritually for some time, making very poor choices and evidencing very little of the power of God to resist sin and temptation. We have been concerned. Some of her poor choices created a need in our hearts to delve a little deeper into her heart to see what we could discern about her walk with God. (Proverbs 20:5 - Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. ) After some conversations with Noel and me, we discerned that she never had come to possess what she has so long professed: a personal knowledge of God's saving grace in Christ. So Noel and I kneeled by the couch, and Dennae confessed with her mouth "Christ as Lord" and believed in her heart that God has raised Him from the dead (Rom.10:9-10). We praise God for His amazing grace!

Also, on Sunday the 6th, we officially chartered our church plant and Northern Ridge Baptist Church became a New Testament local church organized by covenant with each other to be and do what God has called and empowered us to do. We had over 150 people in attendance, many from other churches in the area. They came to encourage us and to witness the birth of another Bible-believing church in the Front Range of Colorado. We have 58 charter members and are very, very excited about what God has in the days, weeks, months and years to come! Soli Deo Gloria!