Thank you for being a Greenhouse Builder. Your gifts to, prayers for, and promotion of Greenhouse are vital to our mission.
This month we invite you pray for the Logic-level program for students in grades 5-8. Please pray for the new students who will join Greenhouse in January. Pray that our students will not fall prey to undue self-centeredness or cliquishness in their middle school years. Pray that they will serve as encouraging big buddies to their younger buddies. Pray for skillfulness and discerning hearts for their teachers: David LaPlaca (Art), Heidi Appleton & Stacie Johnson (History/Lit), Ellie Tate & Robin Wiper (Performing Arts), and Jan Geiger & Laura Johnston (Science).
Familiarity with the Christmas story occasionally blinds us to the extraordinary wonder of what our God has done. Consider the following passage, spoken by an angel, and later referencing a prophecy made hundreds of years earlier. Allow yourself to be amazed.
Matthew 1:20-23 (NKJV)
“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
One can scarcely take it in. Not aloof or distant, our God is with us; in Christ He lived among us. It is He who saves us from our sins. We are told His Spirit indwells us even now. In fact, Jesus assures His followers that He will never leave or forsake us. In what area of your life do you need to be reminded that God is with you? In holy confidence, resting in Christ, claim the reality of Immanuel. Pray that God’s close presence will comfort, encourage and embolden all of His people connected with Greenhouse this season.