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Joy Fellowship Church is a full gospel non-denominational church located in Slidell, LA. Here at Joy Fellowship, God's Word is preached without compromise. We have services on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evening.

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Welcome to Joy Fellowship Church

Then he said to them, "Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength." Nehemiah 8:10 (NKJV) .

Egon and Hannah Falk

Coming to Joy Fellowship Church at 7pm on May 9th.

Lower Ninth Ward Blues

June 14 - 18 Lower Ninth Ward Blues Jam 7pm nightly at our new orleans Lower ninth ward campus at 6022 N. Claiborne,corner of Tupelo st "An invasion of Christian Blues artists including Landon Spradlin and Pastor Larry Roques

If you would like to volunteer to work for this "major evangelistic event". Contact Pastor Joe Badon at 504-287-5731

Pastor's Corner

“14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!" 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Ro 10:14-17 NKJV) People of faith are getting harder and harder to come by. We have been handed so many things in these hi-tech times. We have become drive through, instant, one step, microwave, mass produced images of what religion wants us to look like. There have been so many slick Willie slight of hand artists to invade the ministry that people now look for what is more entertaining than what is in fact reality. In college, through osmosis, I managed to squeeze off a double major with philosophy and ethics my secondary forte’. I was exposed to the likes of Kant, and Neitzsche, Whitehead and Kierkegaard. The thing that stuck with me the most was the general consensus that religion would suffer its own undoing. And so it seems to be happening. People now shop church like they select health clubs. They follow ministers not by Biblical truths, but almost using idyllic criteria believing these men and women to be beyond falling or failure. The televangelist scandals of the eighties should have taught us a valuable lesson, that being, without integrity; you are finished in the ministry. So now, we march toward some of the greatest times in history. We live in the season that Paul, and John, and Ezekiel, and Daniel wrote of in the scriptures. We press in for the great harvest of souls that is the end time revival. Still we see pompousness permeating the ministry. Ambitious men and women using pulpits and sacred offices for personal gain, as Paul the apostle so eloquently put it. The unsettling thing is that believers see these traits and sit under these lies, and yet like sheep to the slaughter, they follow, mesmerized by plastic preachers with tin foil tactics. The Bible tells us that Iron sharpens Iron. When we try to sharpen Iron against plastic, or foil, it will fail to do anything but fail. We know that Jesus will return for a bride that is without spot of wrinkle, how can that happen when some shepherds wouldn’t know a wrinkle from a deep gash. The stage is set saints of God. As we live and breathe, the enmity of the world sneers and snickers at a church it sees as a powerless, lazy sloth eating chocolates while the world goes to hell. We now see clearly the political corners being taken, the power being grabbed, and decency vacating and running for shelter. The brave souls that are still manning the front lines write you emails and send you warnings. As lovingly as they can they try to explain that the time is crucial and the stakes are astronomical. As we enter this spring, think about spring cleaning your spirit. If there were poisonous chemicals in your home’s attic or garage emitting noxious fumes…you would remove them immediately. We need to do that in our life before God. We need to check the label on what we receive as spiritual nutrition. I remember the story of a woman who murdered her husband. It took many years to figure out that she did it. The police were baffled by the mysterious death and could never connect her to the crime. Till one day, a sharp police detective was examining their home and asked to see her late husband’s clothing. The detective carefully combed through the closet and the dresser. Finally, the police sleuth asked the wife about the green stain he noticed on some of her late husbands shirts. She said… “oh that! That’s lime Jello, bless his heart, he loved lime Jello.” The detective asked the woman if he could take some of the clothing with him for closer examination to which she agreed. The crime lab got the late hubby’s shirts and upon further investigation, discovered that in those green stains was indeed lime Jello…and just a trace of Cyanide. She is now serving a life sentence. What about you….what are you being fed? Is it being masked in green Jello. The Gospel is the Truth…it does not have to be flavored, de-boned, or minced. It goes down just fine with a swallow of integrity. In His Wonderful Service, Larry Roques JFC Senior Pastor Posted 2/25/2010 10:10:42 AM

“14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!" 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Ro 10:14-17 NKJV)

People of faith are getting harder and harder to come by. We have been handed so many things in these hi-tech times. We have become drive through, instant, one step, microwave, mass produced images of what religion wants us to look like. There have been so many slick Willie slight of hand artists to invade the ministry that people now look for what is more entertaining than what is in fact reality. In college, through osmosis, I managed to squeeze off a double major with philosophy and ethics my secondary forte’. I was exposed to the likes of Kant, and Neitzsche, Whitehead and Kierkegaard. The thing that stuck with me the most was the general consensus that religion would suffer its own undoing. And so it seems to be happening. People now shop church like they select health clubs. They follow ministers not by Biblical truths, but almost using idyllic criteria believing these men and women to be beyond falling or failure.
The televangelist scandals of the eighties should have taught us a valuable lesson, that being, without integrity; you are finished in the ministry.
So now, we march toward some of the greatest times in history. We live in the season that Paul, and John, and Ezekiel, and Daniel wrote of in the scriptures. We press in for the great harvest of souls that is the end time revival. Still we see pompousness permeating the ministry. Ambitious men and women using pulpits and sacred offices for personal gain, as Paul the apostle so eloquently put it. The unsettling thing is that believers see these traits and sit under these lies, and yet like sheep to the slaughter, they follow, mesmerized by plastic preachers with tin foil tactics.
The Bible tells us that Iron sharpens Iron. When we try to sharpen Iron against plastic, or foil, it will fail to do anything but fail. We know that Jesus will return for a bride that is without spot of wrinkle, how can that happen when some shepherds wouldn’t know a wrinkle from a deep gash.
The stage is set saints of God. As we live and breathe, the enmity of the world sneers and snickers at a church it sees as a powerless, lazy sloth eating chocolates while the world goes to hell. We now see clearly the political corners being taken, the power being grabbed, and decency vacating and running for shelter. The brave souls that are still manning the front lines write you emails and send you warnings. As lovingly as they can they try to explain that the time is crucial and the stakes are astronomical. As we enter this spring, think about spring cleaning your spirit. If there were poisonous chemicals in your home’s attic or garage emitting noxious fumes…you would remove them immediately. We need to do that in our life before God.
We need to check the label on what we receive as spiritual nutrition.
I remember the story of a woman who murdered her husband. It took many years to figure out that she did it. The police were baffled by the mysterious death and could never connect her to the crime. Till one day, a sharp police detective was examining their home and asked to see her late husband’s clothing. The detective carefully combed through the closet and the dresser.
Finally, the police sleuth asked the wife about the green stain he noticed on some of her late husbands shirts. She said… “oh that! That’s lime Jello, bless his heart, he loved lime Jello.” The detective asked the woman if he could take some of the clothing with him for closer examination to which she agreed. The crime lab got the late hubby’s shirts and upon further investigation, discovered that in those green stains was indeed lime Jello…and just a trace of Cyanide. She is now serving a life sentence.
What about you….what are you being fed? Is it being masked in green Jello.
The Gospel is the Truth…it does not have to be flavored, de-boned, or minced. It goes down just fine with a swallow of integrity.

In His Wonderful Service,
Larry Roques
JFC Senior Pastor

Posted 2/25/2010 10:10:42 AM

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