Eastern Iowa FCA

Save the date!

Fields of Faith is coming to Linn-Mar High School on Sunday, October 11! 🙌

Join us for an evening of worship, fellowship and hearing the Gospel as we gather together and point our hearts toward Jesus.

📅 Sunday, October 11
📍 Linn-Mar High School
⏰ Gates open at 6:30 PM | Start time: 7:00 PM

Bring a friend and make plans to join us!

We can’t wait to see you there! 🙏

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation

1 Peter 1:3

Save the date!

Fields of Faith is coming to Washington High School on Sunday, October 11! 🙌

Join us for an evening of worship, fellowship and hearing the Gospel as we gather together and point our hearts toward Jesus.

📅 Sunday, October 11
📍 Case Field at Washington High School
⏰ 7:00 PM

Bring a friend and make plans to join us!

We can’t wait to see you there! 🙏

Friday Devotional | Already Loved

There is a hole in our heart that only God can fill.

In the world of athletics, the pressure to prove is relentless. Athletes try to earn starting spots, coaches try to build winning programs and everyone hopes to earn respect from teammates, fans, and parents. The message is loud and clear: Prove your value. Earn your worth.

What if the most important things about us (our worth, identity and value) have already been proven? What would it look like if we competed, coached and lived not for love, but from love?

Here is the good news: We are loved wholly and unconditionally by the One who created us. We don’t need to earn His love or chase approval through performance. Christ is love, and in Him we have an identity we could not earn ourselves and can never lose.

Trying to prove our worth through love or success will always leave us empty.

God never designed us to live that way. He didn’t create us to earn love. He made us to receive it. There is a hole in our heart that only God can fill.

Scripture reminds us: we don’t work for love; we work from love.

“But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” - Romans 5:8

God offers us the same love. His love is not based on what we do, but on who He is. Understanding the depth of God’s love is where freedom begins.

God loved us first, not because we performed well, prayed hard or lived perfectly. He loved us in our weakness, failure and insecurity. That’s real love, anchored in His nature, not our track records.

While the world chases after approval, we rest in Christ, who calls us His Beloved.

Article by Mindy Lee Hopman, FCA Florida Regional Director of Field Ministry

Fields of Faith is coming to Eastern Iowa! 🙌

Six opportunities to gather together, worship, hear the Gospel and point our hearts toward Jesus.

📍 Liberty High School — October 7 | 6:30 PM gates open, 7:00 PM start
📍 Washington High School — October 11 | 7:00 PM start
📍 Linn-Mar High School — October 11 | 6:30 PM gates open, 7:00 PM start
📍 Fairfield High School — October 17 | 4:30 PM gates open, 5:00 PM start
📍 Vinton-Shellsburg High School — October 18 | 6:30 PM gates open, 7:00 PM start
📍 Cornell College — October 21 | 6:45 PM doors open, 7:00 PM start

Swipe through for all the details and find a Fields of Faith near you!

We want to see you there! 🙏

Save the date!

Fields of Faith is coming to Liberty High School on Wednesday, October 7! 🙌

Join us for an evening of worship, fellowship and hearing the Gospel as we gather together and point our hearts toward Jesus.

📅 Wednesday, October 7
📍 Liberty High School Football Field
⏰ Gates open at 6:30 PM | Start time: 7:00 PM

Bring a friend and make plans to join us!

We can’t wait to see you there! 🙏

📖 BRING YOUR BIBLE TO SCHOOL — TOMORROW!

Thursday, October 1, is Bring Your Bible to School Day!

Take God’s Word with you to school and be ready to live out your faith—in the classroom, on the field and in the hallways.

📖 Bring your Bible.
🙌 Bring your faith.
✝️ Be a light.

Let’s bring God’s Word with us!

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

James 5:16

Friday Devotional: Called to Love

Choosing to love others like Jesus loves us, even when it’s hard.

Have you ever been on a team where it feels like a battle to love your teammates? Or have you ever competed against teams or players who seem impossible to love? Maybe they have a poor attitude or are unkind in how they compete. Perhaps their actions show they do not deserve your kindness and love.

Let’s be honest; we, too, can be hard to love at times. But as followers of Jesus, we know that God loves us even when we do not deserve it. As we seek to become more like Jesus, we are called to love others as He has loved us.

God's love is powerful and transforms us from the inside out.

God loves us with a sacrificial love.

As disciples of Jesus, we are commanded to love others as God has loved us. Jesus tells us in John 15:12, “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.”

The Holy Spirit ultimately empowers us to love like Jesus and to become more like Him.

When it feels like an uphill battle to love those God has placed in our path, remember how Jesus has loved you. Remember the calling on your life to become more like Jesus, and the gift that you have with the Holy Spirit to love others as Jesus has loved you. Loving others may seem challenging, but when it comes from the overflow of your walk with Jesus, it is not only possible, but life-changing.

Quarter Verse:
“This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you.” - John 15:12

Questions for Reflection:
How have you been loving others as Jesus has loved you? How can you show God’s love to your teammates?

Challenge:
Commit to showing God’s love to those around you this week by choosing to love others in challenging moments.

Article By Hannah Campbell, FCA Georgia Regional Director of International Advancement