OUR PURPOSE

What is our purpose?  First in all things we seek to give glory and honor to God and his Son Jesus Christ and submit to his reign and rule in our lives! We seek to follow the great commission and carry the gospel into the whole world. The church of Christ in Mary Esther, Florida has a specific purpose for this web site.  We are seeking to provide resources that will be helpful as one endeavors to grow to spiritual maturity in Christ. We hope the resources will be helpful to all our brethren and please feel free to use any of the resources on this website to grow in your faith and service to the Lord. We are a congregation that is surrounded by military bases specifically Hurlburt AFB and Eglin AFB and therefore another purpose of this website is to provide resources for these members when they are deployed.  Our congregation has many military members and often times these members are deployed to foreign countries and go to remote areas where the church does not have a strong presence so we wanted them to have access and a connection to their home congregation.

We have just recently reconstructed this web site and during the time this site has been under construction we have had some military members deploy for military service in Iraq.  People who have served the Lord here at Mary Esther get sent to all types of locations overseas for their military service. It is our desire for them to be able to stay in touch with us and even more so to remain faithful to the Lord.  We have members who have been sent to South Korea, Turkey, Afghanistan, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. All of these countries do not provide the same religious freedoms and privileges we enjoy at home, which sometimes makes it more difficult in their service to God.

In an effort to help these men and women who fight for our freedom and to follow the great commission as laid out by our Lord to his disciples in Mark 16:15-16 and Matthew 28:18-20 we are launching this site in an effort to give you and our military men and women overseas access to Bible resources.  If you are aware of people who are serving our country and are in difficult situations such as those mentioned above please let them know about this site and the information available. 

All of the material on this site did not originate from me, but it has been edited, organized and put in a useable sequence as a result of my work.  The articles in the Bible, Authority, Salvation and Worship pages of this web site were written by David B. Brown. The Bible Study on the book of Revelation by Bob Dodson. Thanks also to all those who have willingly supplied Bible material on different subjects and topics. Feel free to use any or all of these resources to give glory to God and spread the borders of his kingdom.

We hope you enjoy the web site and if you are visiting this beautiful part of God’s creation in the Ft. Walton Beach - Destin area of Florida stop by and worship with us.

In His Service – Joey Rankin