Cabinet Unanimously Endorses New Faith Community in Amelia

The Holy Spirit is moving in Amelia County. Two years ago in this rural community a tiny band of believers heard the call and opened a mission outreach, the Amelia Thrift Store. Blessings of the Holy Spirit brought diverse people together, over 100 different people by now, to sort and sell donated items and to return every dollar to meets needs in their community. Their faith has grown, their bonds are strong, and now they desire to worship together to celebrate the good works of the Holy Spirit in their midst.  

This new faith community plans to build a congregation and begin worship within the building that houses the thrift store.  Their greater vision is a new regional facility housing a congregation of 500 in the east end of Amelia on Route 360 near Route 153, Military Highway where commuter traffic is the most robust.

They have no doubt that the Spirit who has brought them this far, will lead them on to this exciting future. They see the Amelia Thrift Store as only the starting line of their work in missions and are bursting to find what other missions are awaiting them.

According to District Superintendent Rev. James Tongue, the establishment of a new faith community has historically created excitement and revitalization of the churches in the vicinity of the new plant.  Hope is growing that this new faith community has the potential for making “all things new” throughout rural Virginia.  Rev. Dr. James Moore, respected and successful United Methodist pastor and author, has identified what vital congregations of the present and the future must have. Number one is  “a strong servant theology” and number two is  “a strong mission heart”.   The most important need of this new missional faith community is to build excitement of serving as the hands and feet of Jesus Christ in service to others through mission outreach.

This missional faith community will be the first new faith community in the Farmville district in over 70 years and will need all of the love and support that our connectionalism as United Methodists can muster. If you desire to be a part, through prayer, gifts, or service, please contact our Farmville District Chair of the Church Development Team, Rev. Mike Davis at 804-304-0256 or mtdpastor(at)me.com

 

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