Looking Forward to our Dec 14 Celebration
Christ Fellowship of Memphis is a dream yet to be fulfilled.
The dream is for a church of black and white to become a City of Hope within this divided city of Memphis.
The vision is expressed best in our singular core value of love. Scripture teaches that Love only happens in hearts and minds that have been captured by Jesus.
The breadth of the vision of Christ Fellowship is demonstrated by love which overcomes the barriers that divide this demarcated city. Each Sunday our city is divided along comfort lines – I hang with the people with whom I feel safest, most comfortable, and with whom I have the most in common. Love mandates that I reach beyond my comfort into a world which creates discomfort, because each of us is to be an ambassador of Christ. Ambassadors don’t serve in their own land, but in a land that is foreign to them. This vision is for more ambassadors to cross into foreign lands.
The antithesis of this vision is seen in the followers of Jesus who protested at him stepping across His racial and cultural and spiritual dividing line into wilds of Samaria to touch the heart of the woman at the well.
The challenge to this vision is that it is not yet comfortable because we are wholly incomplete. God’s work has only begun in us and we would prefer to remain comfortable in our imcompleteness.
Satan hates this vision and throughout what people call the “Bible Belt” he has successfully dissuaded followers of Christ from meeting together as one body, in a fashion that reflects the diversity of worship found in heaven itself.
Christ Fellowship is seeking a few mature believers, white and black, who are prepared to serve outside their comfort zone. We’re seeking white families willing for your children to go to Sunday School with black children. We’re looking for black families who are willing to become prayer partners with white families. Please don’t join this effort to be served. Come in order to serve our Master, Jesus Christ.
On Sunday morning, December 14, at 10:45 we launch our first multi-cultural celebration at a cross-road of our city, where white meets black. We meet at 4000 Riverdale Road at Union University’s Olford Center Campus. Riverdale Road is an approximate dividing line where Hickory Hill ends and Germantown begins its trek down Winchester Road toward Collierville.
Christ Fellowship is led by Lead Pastor Kelvin Bowen as well as Pastor Mark Morris.
If you are interested in knowing more, contact us at missionleader@mac.com.
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