We are so excited to be here at Calvary Chapel Bible Fellowship, learning and growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior. Our family "grew up" in Orange County and attended Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa for 25 years, 10 of which I was on staff as an assistant Pastor overseeing the Children's Ministry. For the past three years, we were in the Midwest involved in ministry. In those three years, a few Scriptures became very real in our lives, one being 2 Corinthians 3:5, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God." God used this time to reveal to us in a greater way that we are not sufficient for anything. He also showed us that He was abundantly sufficient for every need that we have. The other Scripture that He personalized for us was James 4:6 "...

God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." God has shown us our great need for humility, causing us to understand more fully that we can't, but He will! Our greatest need is Him! Once again, God has shown His great grace to us, allowing us to be here at CCBF. My wife, Barbie, and I love being involved in the Children's Ministry. Children are so very precious to Jesus, and it is a wonderful privilege that He has called us to minister to His little lambs. The Lord has also blessed us greatly with our 2 sons, Matthew and Drew, and our 2 daughters, Annie and Rebekah. God is working in so many ways here at the "barn." We are excited about what He has been doing, what He is doing, and what He will continue to do in the Children's Ministry. How blessed we are to be a part of watching the grace of God at work in this fellowship. "For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure."

In His love and by His grace,

Pastor Larry