Welcome to Oak Springs Community Church!
Thanks for visiting our website! Oak Springs Community Church is a group of believers dedicated to loving God and the people in our lives, for His glory. Our mission is to get the good news of Jesus Christ into the lives of the people we live with, work with, play with, and interact with. These relational connections we have are the ‘live wires’ God uses to transform lives! We hope that your visit here will be inspiring.
We meet together on Sunday mornings for worship and study of God’s Word. We welcome you to venture out to Grand Isle Senior Apartment Homes in Murrieta each Sunday at 10 AM to experience God in worship and to study God’s Word with us as we equip one another with the truth.
To say, “our doors are always open” would be a little misleading, for our “doors” belong to the Grand Isles. But it is an understanding of Oak Springs’ that we are ‘open doors’ to the love of God and His grace by the sheer fact of His open arms to us. We’ve been embraced by our Heavenly Father and we are just one of many of His open doors to the world He loves and gave His only begotten Son to rescue. So, we welcome you with open arms!
Good Monday morning...
… and for the last Monday morning of 2025, my encouragement for you is to peer into the rearview mirror of your life and ask yourself what lessons you’ve learned and how do you intend to live forward into 2026. This is a self-imposed review, as the clock will tick at the same clip it always has… and in many ways, the new year is just a continuation of time passing. But, as it is with life in general, and the Christian life, more specifically, we’ve been given this time as a gift, and from time to time it is good to evaluate our use of it.
Culturally speaking, 2025 has been a year of some crazy happenings. The top 10 Google searches for news stories over the past year (an easy but unfortunate way of measuring what people are most interested in) are: One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Government shutdown, Charlie Kirk assassination, Tariffs, No Kings protest, Los Angeles fires, New Pope chosen, Epstein files, U.S. Presidential Inauguration, and Hurricane Melissa. While this is only a snapshot of interest coming from the U.S., it does speak to our collective interests.
But personally, what are you looking forward to in the new year? For me, I will be evaluating the past and planning for the future under the metrics of faith, home, work, and health. I know I can improve my faith, the journey toward Christlikeness is one that keeps me moving forward and striving for improvement in my walk with the Lord. Home has evolved to just Lisa and me, so we will be evaluating what we need to do to best fulfill our roles as parents of adults, grandparents of one, and proximity to family. Work is, thankfully, steady and I plan to continue working as the pastor of Oak Springs Community Church and Director of Spiritual Care and Bereavement at Hospice of the Valleys. Health is higher on my list of priorities. For the past couple of years I have been saying, “my comfort foods seem to be causing me a lot of discomfort!” So, I need to make some dietary adjustments to improve my health.
That is my brief outline of what I hope to spend some time on this final week of 2025. I pray that you will find some time to learn from what’s in the rearview mirror for you, and plan wisely for 2026. The beauty of our relationship with Christ is that He is with us all the way! It will be good to do this review with Him leading the way.
For His glory,
Pastor Mike