Welcome to the Neighborhood

"Sharing Our Lord, Our Love, Our Lives"

Where is home?  If you are in the military, that can be a difficult question to answer.  In our Neighborhood, we believe home is where God wants you to be.  So we call this home - a place where people like you and I can gather together and worship God freely, grow by his grace and experience His love every day.  In our Neighborhood, there is a church family waiting to love you and encourage you as you seek after God.  We're not just a church, we're a Family!

Services

Sunday Prayer 8:45 AM

Sunday School 9:30 AM

Sunday Service 10:30 AM

Monday Men's Ministry 7:00 PM

Tuesday Japanese Ladies Bible Study 10:00 AM

Wednesday Family Night; Bible Study, Missionettes, Royal Rangers, Youth 7:00 PM

3rd Saturday Men's Breakfast

4th Sunday Holy Grounds Cafe 6:00 PM 

Nursery Available for ALL services

Japanese simultaneous translation

Men's, Women's and Children's Ministries

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Weekly Devotion:  From A Pure Heart

As Jesus watched people place their offering into the temple treasury, He noticed a poor widow who put in two coins valued at less than a penny.
 
Mark 12:43-44
"Calling His disciples to Him, Jesus said, 'I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything - all she had to live on.'"
 
This passage gives us a wonderful example of faith and how God must be the Lord of our finances - but the real message actually goes much deeper.
 
We have all been blessed in so many ways; and we are called to be good stewards, or managers, of all our blessings.  As a good steward, we must present all we possess back to our Heavenly Father as an offering of love.  Yes, this relates to our financial resources, but it also means we are to offer our gifts, abilities, talents, and time back to God through
service and ministry to others.  God created us (the complete package of who we are) for a purpose. We will need to spend good quality time with God to fully understand our purpose, but we can be absolutely sure that God has NOT blessed us so we can advance our own selfish agenda!
 
Every one of our blessings, no matter how small, are given so we can bless God in return.  We often hold back from ministry opportunities because we
feel our "offering" is insignificant.  We feel inadequate to serve or unworthy to make a true contribution to the work of God's Kingdom.  But God
is never concerned with the magnitude of a gift; He is, and always has been, concerned and blessed by the condition of our heart: "Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams" (1 Samuel 15:22).  How we give is much more important than what we give.
 
God does not need our money, time, ability, or anything we accomplish or produce.  But He loves us dearly and desires to receive the complete love
and devotion which is given with our offering. Jesus was blessed by a widow who gave from her heart, even though the actual gift carried very little earthly value.
 
If we want our service or ministry to have significance in the eyes of God, we must focus on the One to whom we are giving rather than on the value of the gift in the eyes of man.  With our eyes focused, we must then give with all the love in our heart.  If our heart is pure in the giving, God will
receive our offering as a true blessing.  There are no worthless or insignificant gifts when the gift is given from a pure heart.
 
Have a Christ Centered Day!