56205 713th Road, Fairbury, NE 68352
Zion Countryside Church is a small country church in a rural setting in the southeast corner of Nebraska.
Strengths or Positive Qualities of Our Church:
We are a friendly, loving church family, where you can be yourself, and grow with God. We celebrate the love of Christ by serving others, and encouraging each other.
We believe that we are to be witnesses to the world in which we live, through deeds and actions.
We love serving our community through outreach events, that in turn allow us the opportunity to discover our gifts and talents.
We not only support many programs in our local community, but also across the country. Many of our members have served on mission trips around the world.
We have had an outstanding youth program and sponsors. Our youth have traveled to Joplin and Kansas City, MO for mission work and have attended Dare to Share in Kansas City as well as Lincoln, NE. Others volunteer to work auctions, pancake feeds and other fundraisers that support Five Star Bible Camp, a summer Bible school program that is held for a week at Camp Jefferson outside of Fairbury.
We enjoy fun and fellowship together. This includes fishing trips, fish fries, hayrack rides, caroling, soup suppers, and ice cream socials. We love to sing and have had a Christmas Cantata with members from 5 community churches.
Strengths or Positive Qualities of Our Church:
We are a friendly, loving church family, where you can be yourself, and grow with God. We celebrate the love of Christ by serving others, and encouraging each other.
We believe that we are to be witnesses to the world in which we live, through deeds and actions.
We love serving our community through outreach events, that in turn allow us the opportunity to discover our gifts and talents.
We not only support many programs in our local community, but also across the country. Many of our members have served on mission trips around the world.
We have had an outstanding youth program and sponsors. Our youth have traveled to Joplin and Kansas City, MO for mission work and have attended Dare to Share in Kansas City as well as Lincoln, NE. Others volunteer to work auctions, pancake feeds and other fundraisers that support Five Star Bible Camp, a summer Bible school program that is held for a week at Camp Jefferson outside of Fairbury.
We enjoy fun and fellowship together. This includes fishing trips, fish fries, hayrack rides, caroling, soup suppers, and ice cream socials. We love to sing and have had a Christmas Cantata with members from 5 community churches.
Pastor- Doctor Howard Law
Dr. Howard Law
Doctor Howard Law comes to us from the Wichita Kansas area, by way of Seattle Washington, where he and his wife Karen had lived for the past twenty years. He began serving the church soon after settling in the foothills of Mt. Rainier and has served in men’s ministry, youth outreach, homeless ministry, prison ministry, evangelistic outreaches, mission endeavors, and much more. He began as a youth pastor in 2007, serving in that capacity while attending Oral Roberts University graduating with a Bachelor Degree in Pastoral Ministries. Pastor Law went on to complete his Master’s Degree in Urban Ministries from Grand Canyon University in 2013 and recently completed his Doctorate in Transformational Leadership in 2016.
He has five children and four grandchildren and is excited to be near their relatives still living in Kansas.
Doctor Law is involved in a number of opportunities to serve the community including the FYI center, the Ministerial Meetings in both Fairbury and Thayer County, and is currently serving as TeamMates, and CASA volunteers.
On June 10th 2018 Pastor Law was ordained by the Evangelical Association, and is a proud member.
Sadly and suddenly Karen L. Law beloved wife of Dr. Law, lost her battle with breast cancer on Feb. 6, 2019. Her obituary is below
Pastors Statement of Faith
Biblically speaking
1. I believe the entire Bible to be the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God and the only standard for faith and conduct.
(2 Tim 3:16)
2. I believe in the living and true God, creator of heaven and earth, one in essence, yet existent in the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Matt 28:19, John 14:26, 2 Cor. 13:14, 1 Pet 1:2, John 10:30,Gen 1:26)
3. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s only Son and Savior of the world. I believe that He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, died on the cross for the sins of mankind, was physically raised from the dead, ascended to heaven, and is exalted at the right hand of the Heavenly Father and that He is true God and true man. (John 1:14, Matt 1:18, 2 Cor. 5:21, 1 Pet 2:24, Acts 2:24,Luke 24: 39, Luke 24:50,51, Mark 16:19, Php 2:9, 1Tim 2:5)
4. I believe in the personal salvation of believers by placing their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and turning away from sin, which results in right standing before God and eternal life. Salvation is obtained by the grace of God rather than through any human efforts or works. (John 3:16, John 3:3,Gal 2:16)
5. I believe in the sacrament of water baptism by immersion in order to fulfill the command of Christ. (Luke 3:21, Matt 28:19, John 3:5, Acts 2:35, Acts 10:47, 48)
6. I believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit and that all the gifts of the Spirit are active and available today and given to believers by the Spirit for the edification of the church. (Acts 2:4, Acts 19:6&7, Acts 8:17, Matt 3:11b)
7. I believe in celebrating our covenant relationship with Jesus by the sacrament of Communion. (1Cor 11:23-26)
8. I believe in the Great Commission of Jesus Christ to His church to proclaim the good news of salvation in Jesus, making disciples among all ethnic groups, with signs and wonders following. (Mark 16:15-18)
9. I believe in the second coming of Christ in power and glory. We believe that at the final judgment the righteous will be physically raised from the dead to live and reign with Christ forever and that the wicked will be physically raised from the dead to eternal separation from God’s presence. (1Thes 4: 16, 17, John 5:28, 29, Rev 22:12)
10. I believe that the Christian Life will be characterized by spiritual growth and sanctification with the evidence of the fruit of the Holy Spirit in the believer’s life. (2 Pet 1:5-7)
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