Happy New Year!

This is just a short message from me (Pastor Jason) as I pray for you and your family to have a blessed new year.  May you enter 2010 expecting the incredible, the impossible made possible by His grace and faithfulness.

This is an important season to reflect on the year that has passed and shift priorities and expectations for the coming one. I hope you are doing just that.  I wrote on Connecting to Impact about taking inventory. I challenge you to go read that and use it as a spiritual exercise (just click here to read it).

Through all the ups and downs, setbacks and triumphs, frustrations and fulfillment--I am certainly glad that God has put us together as a church. I trust that divine wisdom and I know that He will guide us to the most amazing places, accomplishing impossible things.

I was reminded of this passage in Acts 17 and I am so thankful for who He is:

24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. ²⁵And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. ²⁶From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. ²⁷God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸'For in him we live and move and have our being...'

May we each know and understand this more fully in 2010 and all the years ahead.  May you be flooded with revelation from the heart of the Father.  Blessings and grace to you in Jesus' name!

Jason Stasyszen
www.breakthroughalaska.com

Christ our Savior is born!!

All that we have been planning and preparing for, hoping and dreaming of for the Christmas season is upon us. On tomorrow we will again commemorate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He comes to bring us hope, love, peace and joy. And our prayer is that you and yours will experience all that He is and all He brings as you celebrate.

As you know, many of our church family are vacationing and celebrating outside of the city & state this Christmas season. Added to the list of travellers is the Paddock family (Bill, Liz, Dante', Kaleb and Abigail). We ask that you continue praying & speaking God's best for everyone.

Please be reminded that Pastor Danny Fisher from Seminole, OK will be with us again on this Sunday, Dec 27 at 10:30am. We had a wonderfully blessed time on this past Sunday and look forward to another anointed word of the Lord from our brother. Please invite family & friends to share in what God will do during our Sunday time of worship.

Have a Merry, Merry Christmas and see you on Sunday!!

Merry Christmas and Be Expecting!

Hello everyone,

This is Pastor Jason. We're headed out on our vacation very soon, but on behalf of Andrea, myself, and our family, I wanted to wish you all a very merry Christmas. You are a blessing in the most profound ways to us and we are humbled to be a part of such a beautiful, diverse expression of the Christ's Church.

Enjoy your families and friends this holiday season and also take the necessary moments to recognize His presence in our lives.  Thank Him for His blessings and worship Him.  In everything, be expecting more!

Please remember to come ready to receive these next two weeks as Pastor Danny Fisher from Seminole, OK brings the message.  This is not an accident he's here, but I truly believe it's a divine appointment.  He will bring a timely word that will prepare us for the next season.

If you are in town, do not miss it! Also don't forget to invite as many people as you can to experience what God wants to do.  

Prepare your hearts in advance.  Be praying for one another as God puts someone on your heart and mind. Come ready to worship as Sherry leads you in praise to God then trust Him that He has a great word to speak into your life.  It's a new season, a new day, and we have to have a new expectation.

May God's blessings rest upon you and thank you for your love and prayers as we travel. Merry Christmas and as always, we'll be praying for you and your families as well!

All our love,


Jason and Andrea Stasyszen
www.breakthroughalaska.com

this week's reminders

Good morning to everyone! We only have a couple Breakthrough announcements and reminders for the weekend and they are as follows:

• Pastor Jason, Andrea and kids, Pastor Daymond & Jenny, Jon & Jessica and kids, Deb & Blue, Lyndsay, Jesse and many others are either travelling, getting ready to travel or at their destinations. Thank you for your prayers for His traveling graces to cover and protect as they vacation and get some much needed rest. Jesse will be travelling to Belgium to be with his fiancee' and her family. God's blessings as you go Jesse. May they fall in love with you! You all have awesome trips!
• Dan Fisher (Kristi's dad) from Seminole, OK will be ministering on this Sunday and next Sunday at the morning services. Please come ready to receive the anointed on time word that God will speak through our brother. Please invite family and friends to come and be blessed also.
• Many blessings to you all as you continue to plan and gather with family & freinds in celebration of the love, joy and peace of this blessed season! See you on Sunday!

weekly updates

Good morning to you all. Here are a few Breakthrough reminders and announcements.

Breakthrough Family Christmas Celebration - This Sunday evening, Dec 13 at 5:00pm at the church. This is a potluck style dinner. Sign-up list is posted at the church. If you have not gotten a chance to sign-up for a dish or other items listed, it's not too late. Please contact us and we can get you included! This promises to be a fun filled gathering of food, games, laughter for all. Please invite your family and friends as we celebrate this season of love, hope, peace and the joy that only comes from our Blessed Savior.

All regularly scheduled small groups meetings are cancelled for the month of December.

Breakthrough Youth Group has scheduled their Christmas party for Wednesday Dec 16 at 6:30pm at the church. Parents, please see Bethany or Jesse for details.

Many among us are travelling this holiday season. Please pray for Jeannita, Nate & Sarah and the children as they travel this week (Dec 10) and also for Brenda who is away visiting with her children. God's blessings and travelling graces to you all. Have a wonderful trip!

Sunday mornings - Pre-service prayer 10am and Sunday morning worship 10:30am.

Celebrating in December

Kristi - December 11

Jayme - December 24

Andrea - December 25

Justin - Decmber 28

Have a wonderful birthday celebration and

may His richest blessings be yours!

To our knowledge, no wedding anniversaries in the month of December

An Immediate Prayer Request

I just received an email from Meghan that said Andrew Hohenthaner went to the ER this afternoon.  here's what she wrote,

Mom just called me and they are taking dad into the emergency room. I guess he aspirated something into his lungs and they need to run tests and see what is going on (he’s starting to run a fever). Mom is very worried! Please pray for him... he could use all the support he can get.

Thank you all for your prayers and we'll do our best to keep you updated on what's happening.

Blessings,

Jason