Michael Harrison's e-devotion

  Pray for back2school 2026.  Why back2school?  Over 20 years ago a missionary to the mountain areas of Appalachia spoke to our church about making a huge difference in the lives of kids living in places of poverty.  One year later The Community Fellowship began.   That first summer, right before a new school year began, we served students helping them prepare for a school.   It was incredible as we served about 75 students.  The next year we served 500 students.  The next year we went to 1,000 students.  It started with just school supplies.  Then we added backpacks and soon after added new shoes and socks.     And the rest is history, as the old saying goes.  Since that humble beginning in 2007 we have served for 20 years and over 46,000 students.  Each student will receive a new backpacks filled with school supplies, new shoes and socks as well as have their feet washed by a volunteer.  Some location...

  Before I move in to today’s e-devotion I want to say a huge THANK YOU to all who prayed for an supported me during the Cuba mission trip.  I plan to share from the trip later this week. Yesterday we began a new series at The Community Fellowship.  We are studying John 3.  We began by looking at the conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus.  It was eye opening and even pointed to some of the things true of each of us. I talked about God’s love, but one of the things that God’s love reminds us of is how God is and has changed our lives… 2 Corinthians 5:17-21  NLT   This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us t...