Brian Kamstra

Dear Friends,

I can’t believe it’s time to reflect on another year at SoGF! Looking back, it seems that we packed so much into 2025.

Thank you to everyone who invited friends and family to our church this year. We welcomed more visitors than ever before, and we hope they heard about the saving power of a relationship with Jesus and how His grace covers everything.

Is unity an impossible dream?

Look around and you’ll find people who are different from each other: different political beliefs, different ethnicities, different cultures, different socio-economic standings, different religious beliefs, different priorities, different mindsets. And isn’t that great? Embracing diversity, rather than resisting it, makes us stronger and helps us grow.

Greetings, fellow Bible readers!

We have now experienced our third week of our special Bible study that eventually will get us through the whole Bible. This will take 3 years. The journey will be life-changing.

There will be many weeks when we reach sections of the Bible, like Isaiah chapters 13-18, that are hard to understand and difficult to read. I encourage you to work VERY hard to slow your brain down and read every word of the chapters, whether you understand or not. We need this kind of discipline as disciples of Jesus.

The first three chapters of Isaiah were filled with judgements and warnings to a stubborn and rebellious Jerusalem. Remember, Isaiah prophesied to Jerusalem throughout the reigns of 4 Kings.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I have tremendous hope that our new SOGF Bible study is going to change many lives, while also pulling us closer together as a church community.