This teaching is from the 2025 Central Area Pentecost Picnic.
We look at how God isn’t looking for perfect people, He is looking for those who will believe. We cannot earn all of things that we have been given, and God doesn’t call people by mistake. The teacher emphasizes how our pasts don’t matter to God and aren’t up for discussion by others or by ourselves. We are instructed that, since God has forgiven us, we are to forgive now. God has called us to be His family for eternity.
After the teaching, the song “On My Way” by the Harbor Light Fellowship Band is played.

In this first of two Married Couples’ Nights for 2025, 40 couples gathered on a Saturday night at the Fellowlaborer House, with more than 100 more connected online for an evening of fellowship and two teachings, one by Mrs. Diane Carr and the other by Rev. Joe Armstrong. The teachings were simultaneously translated into Spanish so that couples in South America could participate also. The topics, both very practical, were designed to meet important needs and were handled with love, insight, humor and clear examples.

In the first part of this teaching, Rev. Armstrong sets God’s heart for marriage and the importance of following His design for it instead of the world’s. He covers how the marriage relationship is to be a living example of the Great Mystery in action, with the husband and wife’s roles being different but complementary, just as it is with the members of the Body of Christ. In the second part, he covers three things that can ruin a marriage: anger, lack of forgiveness and selfishness; and then three things that can bless a marriage: edifying words, kindness and unconditional love.

This teaching was subtitled “Looking for the heart of Saturday night” and emphasized throughout the need we have to keep that sweetness and unity and companionship that Christian marriage is designed by God to provide. Included are a number of warnings about things that can threaten that unity and mutual care one of another, as well as practical ways from God’s Word to avoid that happening or how to recover it if it has been lost. Because we have God’s Word and God’s love available to us, we can continue to change as life and marriage change, overcome obstacles, and enjoy the intimacy and fellowship of the marriage relationship.

This teaching is from the 2025 Northern Area Pentecost Picnic.
God works with imperfect people. This teaching looks at the events of the Day of Pentecost recorded in Acts, Chapter 2 and at Peter who spoke on that day. We are shown in the Gospels how Peter made plenty of mistakes and would at times be fearful or react emotionally to situations. However, he spoke the right words on the day of Pentecost as God worked in him via the holy spirit that he received. God will work with imperfect people like us as well.

This is the Fellowship Songbook we use in our fellowships, but in an electronic version that can be carried on your cellphone or computer, as well as be shared online during fellowships. There is a clickable index, both alphabetical and by song number, that allows you to go quickly and directly to any song.