Welcome to Kootenay christian Fellowship, we are glad you are here!

As a community of ordinary people, we believe something extraordinary: that God loves us as we are, has a plan to not leave us as we are, and has made a way for us to be with him, to know and experience him in our lives. This literally makes all the difference in the world. We believe that he loves each and every person, and our desire is that we might be able to serve you in knowing him more, either to introduce him to you for the first time or to fuel the fire in your ongoing journey of faith.

As a community, our vision is to be GATHERED together around Jesus, to be FILLED with his Spirit and to be SENT on the mission of the Father; to bring hope and restoration to the world around us. We would love for you to join us on the journey.

We look forward to getting to know you and please let us know how we can help.

May you experience the peace and love that he has for you.

 

Andrew and Rachelle Freeman (on behalf of Kootenay Christian Fellowship)

 

Latest Blog:

A Big Neon Sign

 O, how exciting to be setting off up the hillside together to listen to the greatest message ever given, ‘The Mountain Sermon’!  And to hear it from the greatest preacher that ever lived… Jesus himself!  This Sunday we are going to begin a new series called ‘A Kingdom People’, looking at Jesus’ longest recorded teaching from Matthew 5, 6 and 7. Here Jesus has words that will form a group of ragged followers into a people who are alive with the essence of the new Kingdom. His purpose is for a people who look like him and act like him in the world, a people who will carry these seeds of Kingdom, planting them wherever they go, filling the earth.   

 If you want to know how to live - here it is written down on paper. All good then! No problem! Let’s just get on with it... But as we read it, we have a growing realization, a sinking feeling, a desperation… I CAN NEVER LIVE LIKE THIS! Jesus says things like, “Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.” Oh, Shoot!  There are things written here that I fail at every day it seems… What hope do I have? And then the real clincher, “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” I am lost!! Without hope! Doomed!

 But, wait a moment - on the mountainside, there is one speaking, the preacher on the mount, full of grace and truth. It’s as if, the dawning revelation of our helplessness is meant to point us to the helper, our poverty a great neon arrow lit up in the night, pointing to the savior. Right at this moment of history dawns a new day! What we could never do before is met by the one who can do it perfectly and invites us to draw on him and lean our full weight on him, to live ‘in him’. This is a moment of great excitement, thrilling joy!

 This mountain sermon is something that we can never live and yet something that we can totally live and must live. In ourselves… impossible; and yet our total lack, points us to the savior, and coming to him starts a new creation, a new being, we become new - and the promise of old becomes a living reality… “And I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules… and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.” (Ezekiel 36:26-28). Is this not the most incredible thing ever!!

 So, as we come up the mountain, to see a new way of living, let us keep our eyes firmly on the preacher on the mount, the one who has given his very life to enable us to walk in his ways. I’m excited… Are you??

Love to all,

Andrew

(pastor/team leader at Kootenay Christian Fellowship)

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