THROUGHOUT MY TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS of being affiliated with this church, there has always been a very special group of people who gath-ered together to study the Word of God, to pray, and to have some great times of fun together. This group has gone by various names, there was the Pilot Class, and the Anchor Class and now collectively they are known as the PrimeTimers. But, I think the class name that describes them best is the name they have used of late: The Berean Class.
That name is taken from Acts chapter seventeen and refers to a group of people who heard the Gospel preached by the Apostle Paul and who took the Gospel to heart, but not without first “checking it all out by God’s Word.”
Luke, the writer of the Book of Acts, says that these people were of noble character and that they received the message with eagerness, ex-amining the Scriptures everyday to see if the message was true. I be-lieve that the name Bereans fits well that part of our church family we often refer to as senior adults.
In this season of thanksgiving, as I take time to contemplate all of God’s manifold blessings, I once again give thanks for the blessing our senior saints bring to this church family. Throughout the history of this local gathering of God’s family we have been honored to have noble, ea-ger and Scripture saturated senior adults. They have been the prayer warriors, the pastoral encouragers and yes, the financial supporters throughout our almost forty-five year history. We are blessed!
As we move forward as the Church seeking to reach out to an ever-changing, increasingly fast-paced, post-Christian world may we ever be thankful that God has given us those who have walked long with the Lord and you will help us stay on course as we ply through new uncharted wa-ters.
For these blessings we give Thee thanks!