Ohh ain't life grand?!!!

Howdy all! I am just sitting here on the futon, thinking about life. God is so good. Our church has grown so much recently. I look around and there are new faces everywhere. I really enjoy that. I think that God has called us to a higher place here in College Station. I just wanted you all to know how happy I am to be apart of this AWESOME church family!! I love you all dearly!!

A pretty busy week...

We had the SALT Campus Connection last Friday and Saturday and all I hear is good reviews. Our students loved it and people from other areas must have really enjoyed it as well. We had folks from Alexandria, Hillsboro, Trinity, Huntsville, Beaumont... and I don't know where else. We had a great time with all of our guest and we had several from the local campuses!
Sunday we had good church (of course it could have been better) but I think everyone was really zapped from the previous days. We have a great team of leaders with good ideas constantly being fowarded. It really is amazing what difference a good team can make! I will write more on this later:).
We are getting ready to go into another phase of growth at the church. Not only in the physical building but also in our managment style. I am supposed to take our new plans by the bank today to get our loan approval for adding on a new Sunday School wing. It will add four more classrooms which is desperatley needed. We've been having to keep all of our 2 year olds all the way up to 11 year olds in the same class. Now I don't teach the class, but they tell me that this is a challenge; I can only imagine. Not only the group age difference, but we are also stuffing anywhere from 15 to 20 kids with two teachers in a small 12X20 room...
This new wing will allow is to divide that class into more age appropriate material, settings and lessons. It will also open up the old nursery to be used by the church secretary and the Sunday School superintendant, when we get one. That should be soon actually.
Looking forward, things look good... I believe that we should be able to get this addition built before Thanksgiving. Then we will probably have to build a new sanctuary around mid summer of next year. How? - I have no clue, God can make a way where there is no way. We have seen that done many times before, haven't we class!!! That building probably needs to seat about 250-275. Right now we can literally put about 140 people in our current church building. That is counting every seat in the house, even on the platform, etc... So in reality, we might can get 115 to 120 in there without having guest feel overwhelmed by a hot body sitting right next to them. We have been running around 100, but our regular people add up to about 125-130. I guess you can't get everyone there at once:). That may be a good thing for a little while... Just playing guys!
So - - - We continue to trust God! Our God can do ANYTHING!

Victory Church Life

This is the day that the Lord has made...
But we have the opportunity to make it what we want it to be:)! God created the day, we create the attitude of the day. When we realize that our attitude determines our success, we will maybe wake up to a whole new day.
Today is SALT Campus Connection, today we will attempt to reach out to some of the 50000 college students in our area. The actual enrollment is around 55,300... What an incredible opportunity for the church. What an incredible Obligation for the church. If we would ever realize the desire of our youth to learn, not just of technical or scientific matters, but of spiritual things as well. They are like walking sponges:). When we recognize that most people decide their spiritual direction in life before the age of 22, we also will recognize our need to be more productive and more faithful than ever before. The world we live in is changing, will be be the changers or the changees? IS that a word?

All For Jesus

Pastor Castleberry

Excitement Fills the Air...

We are just a few days away from one of the largest events that we have hosted prior to this point. Well, kind of... Church-in-a-Day was a pretty big deal to us as well.:) Three days from now we are going to host our first Campus Connection. So far we have Singers coming from Alexandria, La, a band coming from Hillsboro, Texas and our speaker is Andrew Cox also from Alexandria. We have a room that is legally limited to about 400, but we hope to pack it out. All of our SALT crew is working as hard as they can to host a great event. Kate and the SALT Campus leaders, Richard Hammer 3 and Emily Smikal are working like crazy to "git er done"... This last week at church we baptized two, the week before last we baptized one and two were filled with the Holy Spirit! The church is steadily growing and we are glad, it would seem that God's does everything in his time... Isn't that scriptural??? :)
All For Jesus
Pastor C

This is the Victory... In Jesus Christ!

The beginning of another all new adventure... The Victory Church Blog. The people of Victory Church is where it all starts. We are a very active and alive Jesus Name Church in College Station, Texas; full of wonderful people that really live what they believe. We can't wait to see more people begin living in VICTORY! We believe that after Jesus has changed your life you can live in Victory too! We have a great time in church as well as in fellowship.
I will stop here and add some more later - When I have more time of course. I really hope that our church people can fill in some of the big empty space of this blog and over time it will give all the world an insight into what living for Jesus is really supposed to be! All For Jesus
Pastor Keith Castleberry