Well my brothers and sisters here we are 3 weeks into 2016 and from the surface it sure doesn’t look like much has changed around here but please hang on! Change is coming soon! The leadership is busy working on the new building and it’s progressing in a behind the scene manner. Very soon folks we are going to see progress at the new Property and we’ll be meeting there before you know it. But there is a lot of paperwork and things that need to be taken care of first.
Dennis and Juli should be in tonight some time! That’ll be a fantastic blessing and a giant leap forward on the building project. It is exciting to me to see a young couple feel God moving in their hearts enough that they will pack up and leave the comforts of home and head out West on an adventure that they have no clue where it will land them in the end. It’s pretty much like a New Testament missionary journey where the missionary’s feel God pulling at their heart to go minister to a people group so they get up and go! Remember when God told Abraham to “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about (Genesis 22: 1-2).” The Bible says that Abraham got up early the next morning and set out to do what God had asked him to do! No hesitation, no whining and no arguing with the Lord, he just did it.
Would you be willing to do that? Would you be willing to move out if God asks? Are you willing to get out of your comfort zone and do something that God wants you to do? I’m not saying that you need to kill your kid or move across the Nation, but how about teaching a Sunday school class? When we move to the New Property in a few months we are going to need folks to step up and help out in that manner because the church is going to grow and we will have an opportunity to change these kids’ lives.
We need to teach these young people folks because they are our future! All I’m asking for you to do is pray about it and let Him lead you!
Please let me know if you need anything. Naomi and I love you all.
-Pastor Steve
About the Canelo Cowboy Church
Canelo Cowboy Church held its first service Easter Sunday April 16, 2006. It was a Sunrise Service celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and was held at a historic building on the pastor’s family ranch. May 15th, 2016 was the last service at this adobe building that was a one-room school house from 1913 until 1946. Currently, we are meeting at our new building on our 17 acres of land in Sonoita, Arizona. You can get DIRECTIONS HERE.
Our purpose is to reach the lost in the community and to support missions around the world thus fulfilling Acts 1:8. Our desire specifically is to reach the working cowboy, and others interested in the western way of life.
Our biggest outr
each right now is our Ranch Family Fun Days (RFFD). We meet at the church arena in Sonoita on the 3rd Sunday of the month and have rodeo events all day long. We stop around 11:30 just long enough to have church and lunch and then we’re back after it in the arena! The church property is located at mile post 24 on Highway 83. This event draws crowds of over 200 attendees, many of whom are not church goers and have never made a commitment to the Lord, but they like to rodeo and come to the Canelo Cowboy Church to hear the Gospel.
Our vision has been to construct a multipurpose building on our 17 acres of land and finish the arena. Here we can host more RFFD’s, ranch rodeos, roping events, rough stock events, gymkhanas, have a Bible study beforehand and reach this culture for Christ. Please hold up the Canelo Cowboy Church in prayer as only through prayer will we reach the goals God has given us. Feel free to contact us because everyone is welcome and we hope to see you there!