Blog: April 2020

Hi Goshen Families, We miss you and are thinking and praying for you! Please feel free to be in touch if there are specific prayer requests or ways that we can help to support you and your family during this time. This week in our Sunday lesson for kids we continue to follow the life and ministry of Jesus. Below are some resources that you can use with your children for the lesson. Worksheet for the lesson: John pointed to Jesus: https://sharesync.serverdata.net/us/s/CiFB7vCU1BS9uEegTdzluF003d1554 Video of the lesson: John pointed ...

You’ve heard the PA motto, “Stay calm, stay home, stay safe.”  These words convey the common sense challenge to do what we can to slow the spread of Covid-19.  And in many communities it’s been working; stay-at-home has helped “flatten the curve” and keep the medical establishment from being overwhelmed.  It’s good advice. And yet, we chafe at this counsel.  Stay home?  We weren’t made to live under quarantine.  Staying home may be the right thing to do for the moment, but not for too long!  God designed his church to walk by faith together ...

Hi Goshen Families, We hope you are finding the strength and patience to make it through these days as you have established new routines with your kids! I've enjoyed seeing many of your children's faces through some Zoom and Web Ex calls! Below are ideas for 4/19 Sunday service: Worksheet for the lesson on Jesus' Temptation: https://sharesync.serverdata.net/us/s/DqdOZgvV1WG14J4w7NGyK7003d1554 A video for the lesson on Jesus' Temptation: https://sharesync.serverdata.net/us/s/wfhMG7hIUYt0Ie3fpsrsbt003d1554 Some wording that you ...

What is God up to in the midst of affliction?  That’s a big question, and a good one.  And the first response would be to admit that we may know very little about what God is truly intending and accomplishing through our trials.  Can you be at peace with that—with recognizing that the Divine Mind is wise and purposeful and ingenious far beyond our comprehension?  Beware of the attitude that challenges God and demands answers that fully satisfy our aggravated curiosity right now. In 2 Corinthians the Apostle Paul is inspired by God’s Spirit ...

Happy Easter! During our Goshen worship service for Easter this Sunday, we will be sharing the Resurrection Easter Eggs! This is an activity that we have done every year during our Sunday school hour with the kids on Easter Sunday. They seem to love guessing what is inside the egg they are holding! I wanted to share some Scripture that you could read together as a family that would accompany the different eggs as their opened. Please preview the Scripture as you will want to consider the age/maturity of your children as you share the ...

Our brother in the Lord Jesus, Bill Zane Sr., passed away on April 4 after a long battle with cancer.  Please continue to be in prayer for his wife Robin and the entire Zane family. The following are tributes by the Zane children to their father which they shared on social media: By Bill Zane Jr.: Many of you knew him, many of you didn’t. I am the man I am today because of this man’s faithfulness. This morning as I stood next to him, my beloved father breathed his last and finally saw Jesus. He’s been saying for weeks he’s ready ...

During Holy Week we commemorate world-changing events that took place 2,000 years ago.  But we do more than look back; we also stand in awe of how the Lord, in his grace, brought those events to bear upon our lives today.  Holy Week is a time for worship—for quiet and reflective praise, as well as exuberant celebration. The main events of which I speak are the death and resurrection of Jesus.  In Romans 6 the Apostle Paul describes how we are affected by the hand of God through these events in this way: “Do you not know that all of us who ...

Happy Palm Sunday! We are so disappointed to not be able to meet at church for our annual Palm Sunday processional! We hope you'll be able to enjoy your own personal family processional perhaps through your living room or across your front yard! Below is the lesson for your kids for 4/5 - Jesus' Baptism https://sharesync.serverdata.net/us/s/LocQeBwv7cUbaWjUKSbfVb003d1554 Scroll down for some text to accompany the lesson. Here is the worksheet for the lesson on Jesus' Baptism: ...

Politics was dominating the news until a few weeks ago--and then the Coronavirus flooded the media radar 24/7.  Now it's wall-to-wall virus-tracking and infection stats and prognostications of how all this COVID-19 business will play out. Like it or not, the present moment confronts the world with big questions about God and life and the reality of suffering.  How can we make sense of it all (here's a podcast that speaks to the issues)?  Question is:  are we able to handle such questions and challenges?  Are you "prepared to make a defense ...

Over the years it has been my privilege to have known some strong, Godly, women. Helen Reid was one of these ladies. Not long after we began attending Goshen Baptist Church I met Helen.  She introduced herself and began to share with me who she was and her role at the Church.  I was amazed at the wide variety of things that she had done and was involved in.  The more I got to know her the more amazed I was at her energy level and how far she would go to help someone in need. I was very pleased to find out that Helen would be my ...