The sTory of noah and the ARK
In Genesis, Noah built the ark which was designed to save people from the imminent flood. Only a few, eight, in all were saved and those were his family members. Our belief is that through the building of your ark, through the various acts of random kindness, salvation would be the result of your service. The scripture tells us that the “goodness of the Lord will lead them to repentance.” Romans 2:4 Possibly, like Noah, the salvation may come from family members and relatives.
As Noah’s sons involved themselves with the building of the ark, they bonded with each other and their father by serving on such a large project. In the same way, we believe individual families and whole church families will grow together in Christ as they take on building a mammoth sized ark by A.R.K.
God also instructed Noah to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, along with every kind of food to be stored as food for the animals and his family while on the ark. Noah obeyed everything God commanded him to do.
After they entered the ark, rain fell on the earth for a period of forty days and nights. The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days, and every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. As the waters receded, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Noah and his family continued to wait for almost eight more months while the surface of the earth dried out.
Finally after an entire year, God invited Noah to come out of the ark. Immediately, he built an altar and worshiped the Lord with burnt offerings from some of the clean animals. God was pleased with the offerings and promised never again to destroy all the living creatures as he had just done. Later God established a covenant with Noah: "Never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." As a sign of this everlasting covenant God set a rainbow in the clouds.
