On Sunday, January 1, 2023, VLC gathered in person which was also broadcasted online via YouTube. Today, Pastor Stuart Nice shared a message encouraging us to make the most of the new year by focusing on our relationship with Christ, asking for the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, and renewing our faith commitments. Pastor Stuart shared with us these journal prompts to help us with our faith commitments in the new year.

What's one thing you can do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?
What's an impossible prayer you can pray?
What's the most important thing you could do to improve your family life?
In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year?
What's the single biggest time-waster in your life, and how can you redeem the time?
What's the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?
For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?
What's the most important way, by God's grace, you will try to make this year different from last?
What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?
What single thing can you plan to do this year that will matter most in ten years? In eternity?

So we keep on praying for you, asking our God to enable you to live a life worthy of his call. May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do. Then the name of our Lord Jesus will be honored because of the way you live, and you will be honored along with him. This is all made possible because of the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 (NLT)