April 03rd, 2019

​We invite you to participate in activities at the Evangelical Free Church of Yucca Valley where we encourage a multi-generational community of followers of Jesus Christ. There is something for everyone.
Sunday:
​Adult Sunday School - 9 am
Join us for fellowship, coffee and snacks 
     at 10 am
Worship Service 10:30 am
**April 21st Easter Sunday Sunrise Service- 6 am
Tuesday: (all Tuesdays this month)
Ladies' Bible Study 6 -7:15 pm
Wednesday * no study Wed April 17
Kids Quest - 6:15 - 8 pm FREE - ages 3 years old  to 6th grade
Adult Sermon Discussion and Bible Study - 6:30 pm
Friday * no Youth Group April 19th
​Youth Group  - 6-8 pm
Second Saturday of Each Month:
Men's Breakfast and Bible Study 7:30 am
Next Women's Brunch March 9th 10 am-noon

Good Friday: April 19th -  Pastors Fellowship Community Good Friday Service at the First Baptist Church, Joshua Tree - noon
Easter Sunday:​
​Easter Sunrise Service 6 am
Pancake Breakfast 7 am
​Sunday Service 10:30 am
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See weekly bulletin
 
For
 additional information call the church office Mon-Thurs, 10 am - 2 pm -  760 228-1747

 The United States of America.
 
Throughout its history, the US has experienced crises that threatened our very existence. The Revolutionary War, by all human accounting, should have ended in a British victory…but it didn’t. The War of 1812 should have seen the British reverse their defeat from our war of independence…but it didn’t. The Civil War could easily have ended this ‘experiment in democracy’…but it didn’t. And just one more: in World War II, the Axis alliance was poised to bring the world under its control, including the United States…but it didn’t.
 
In pride, we espoused doctrines like manifest destiny and American exceptionalism as ways to try to take credit for our seemingly miraculous survival. But in fact, the only reasonable explanation for the survival of this great country of ours is the providence of God. As Proverbs 21:31 says, “The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory belongs to the Lord.” God’s grace has been looking out for us these two-hundred-forty-two years (and counting).
 
I say all this because as a nation we are, right now, at a remarkable, unique, scary place in our history. Will we continue as a bastion of freedom and liberty (the afore mentioned experiment in democracy)? Or will the electorate finally cede their authority to govern to a political establishment bent on identity politics and self-perpetuation?
 
Since God has shown His hand in support of the US in the past, then it is for God’s people to pray. Did God save us from England because His people prayed? I don’t know. Did God save us from ourselves in the 1860’s because God’s people prayed? I don’t know. But I do know this, that during World War II, when my father found himself more than once in the middle of horrific naval battles in the Pacific Theater where his was the only Allied ship in the flotilla that wasn’t in flames from enemy bombardment, that my Grandmother Olive and Grandfather Vern and their church prayed earnestly for my Dad.
 
Are you concerned for our country, wondering what the future holds? Then it is for us to pray! Pray for our nation, for God’s sovereign and gracious hand to protect. Pray for revival! That a mighty move of His Spirit would begin among His people to move us to pray, to love and to proclaim the Good News. Pray for our leaders on both sides of the aisle; for their salvation and that they would govern with a view to insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
 
Yours for making disciples of every nation (including the US),