Missouri Restorative Ministry

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The CPF family are saddened to learn of the passing this weak of a great man, Vernon McGarvey Pastor of Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Moberly Missouri was a wonderful man of God, a wise Pastor and leader of various capacities for the UPCI Mo Dist including Home Missions Director. He was a friend of and a believer in prison ministry. But more that he was a sweet spirited servant of God, that always had a smile for those he bumped in to.

The Missouri District Christian Prisoner Fellowship and Restorative Ministries joins the McGarvey Family in the sadness that comes with such  a separation and the celebration that comes in knowing that such a great man has received his reward in glory, and taken his place in heaven, and the blessed assurance that  In the sweet by and by,
We shall meet on that beautiful shore;  and worship together again.

Christ's 12 step program to recovery

We use the word Recovery- But God as evidenced in His word thinks of it as restoration. If we look at the Mirriam-Webster definition we can see how the two words are efficiently interchangeable.

Recover- To bring back to normal condition. To rescue

Restore: to bring back into former or original state. To bring back into proper place ie  After he healed from his injury he was restored to his original position at first base.

To put back into possession. 1 Cor 6:19-20, 1 Cor  7:22-24

God is a restorer, that is to say he is hard at work to recover humanity from its fallen state and restore the communal relationship that was enjoyed in the days that he walked with us in the garden during the cool of the evening.

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