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Dear friends,

Vincent van Gogh had hoped to follow his father into ministry. When the Dutch Reformed Church declined to approve him as a candidate, he served as a lay missionary among the desperately poor coal miners of the Borinage in Belgium. There, he gave away his clothes and money, slept on straw, and worked alongside miners in the pits to understand their suffering and to bring them the gospel.

His radical identification with the poor shocked church officials, who dismissed him. Feeling a complete failure, Van Gogh turned to painting at age twenty-seven. Nurtured by the Bible and Christian classics, he began to portray the glory of God in ordinary creation and in the quiet dignity of struggling people. With bold, luminous brushstrokes, he painted hope amid hardship.

Although he produced over two thousand works, selling only one in his lifetime, his art became a profound expression of Christian compassion and wonder. Van Gogh’s story speaks powerfully to every ordinary Christian. Most of us will never see the full fruit of our faithfulness in this life. Yet God can take our quiet obedience, our unnoticed service, and even our apparent failures and use them to reflect his beauty and love in ways we may never know until eternity.

In Christ’s love,

Pastor Randy 

Join Us This Sunday

May 3, 2026 

Old Testament: Psalm 55:1-2, 12-14, 16-17, 22

New Testament: 1 Peter 2:21-23

SERMON: “Entrusting Ourselves to the God Who Cares”

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“I always hope of being able to express something of that which is in the heart of God.” -Vincent van Gogh