My name is Ray and I along with my wife Jackie and Daniel and Sora are part of Life Baptist Church of Pasadena. We all met in college many years ago and we have been ministering to college and graduate students ever since.
The problem with college and grad students are two-fold. One, they are boring because they have limited life experience. Two, they don’t know they are boring and think they are so interesting. And they think they have life figured out so they don’t have to listen to older, wiser people like me. Some college students even think they are God’s gift to humanity – we’ve all met people like that who thought they could do no wrong.
I am very excited to be here and I am eager to get to know each of you and hear your life stories. I am sure God has just as much to teach me through all of you as I have things to share about God.
We moved here to Alhambra a year and a half ago to plant a church in Pasadena. And in recent months we have been praying about how we can reach out to this community. And that’s why we are here.
All of us actually live about 2 blocks from here and it is our prayer that we will end up doing far more than provide a sermon and a few hymns once a month. We pray that we can get to know one another and develop friendships in the Lord.
Please turn with me to Psalm 139:13-16
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me
were written in your book before one of them came to be.