Easter is one of two days during the year when families who are “cultural Christians” are most likely to check out church. This is a good thing. After all the church is in business to share the Gospel and the minor inconvenience of having to park a little further away than usual or to find some one sitting in our customary seat are well worth it.

After you get home from church, I want to challenge you to ponder something beyond which family at church won the fashion show. (Don’t ask me how I know about that one…let he who is without sin cast the first stone.) Consider this…Who wasn’t there? Do you have friends and neighbors who couldn’t come to church because their kids have emotional, behavioral or developmental issues that make church attendance and participation nearly impossible. My guess is that you can quickly think of several families who couldn’t come to hear about the Good News of Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Jesus died and rose from the dead for everyone. That’s why the work we do at Key Ministry is so important. We think it’s completely unacceptable that there are families who can’t regularly come to church to learn about Jesus, grow in faith and ultimately, put that faith into practice by sharing His love with other people in practical ways.

That’s why we do what we do at Key Ministry.

He is Risen! Happy Easter from our entire team at Key Ministry.

Note on the picture: This is from Easter, 2007 when we were driving back from Florida and had this picture taken before visiting North Point in Atlanta. We felt really bad for taking a close-in parking spot when Easter temperatures were in the 20s and the natives were freezing.

We’re pleased that our teammate, Harmony Hensley, will be offering two presentations at this year’s Orange Conference in Atlanta. She’ll be accompanied by Katie Wetherbee. E-mail Katie (katie@keyministry.org) or call (440) 247-0083 to meet up at the conference.

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