Pictures....how fun!

Here are some pics from Family Fun Night.....enjoy!!!!

Family Fun Night really was Fun

Well, i thought that the FFN was a real success! I enjoy working with everyone so much. I think that we are moving in the right direction!!! I feel that God is taking us to the next level....of anointing, of unity, of friendship, and ect... I am so excited to see what He is going to do with us. I have some pictures so i will put them on asap. I really love yall so much!!! Hope everyone is having a good day!

I thought this was really cool and wanted to share.

So when I graduated from High school, Pastor John and Jan both got me the same book, My Utmost for His Highest (the classic edition) by Oswald Chambers. (Do you think God was trying to tell me something when I got two copies of the same book?) So I started reading it and thought, ok, I really don't want to read this book it is too confusing. (Since it is the classic edition, it is the original version from like 1930 and was just hard to read even though I don't have problems reading.) So onto the bookshelf they both went to get covered in dust and mostly forgotten.

So now zoom ahead about two years to the present, or back a few weeks, however you want to look at it, when I was talking to my friend Gary. He was mentioning the stuff he was getting out of the book and how great it was. So I thought why not give it a second chance.
I started on March 12th. (the book is set up so you read a little devotion each day of the year) What I read has been really going through my head. Here is part of that days devotional:

“Abandonment is not for anything at all. We have got so commercialized that we only go to God for something from Him, and not for Himself. It is like saying, “No, Lord, I don't want Thee, I want myself; but I want myself clean and filled with the Holy Ghost; I want to be put in Thy showroom and be able to say-- ’This is what God has done for me.’” If we only give up something to God because we want more back, there is nothing of the Holy Spirit in our abandonment; it is miserable commercial self-interest. That we gain heaven, that we are delivered from sin, that we are made useful to God--these things never enter as considerations into real abandonment, which is a personal sovereign preference for Jesus Christ Himself.”

That's growing inside me...“It’s a good thing.” (that's what Martha Stewart always says; but yeah, it really is a good thing)

EXCELLENT-A

Spanish for really good job.. I was impressed with LEXI'S presentation this eveing. Grace, Truth and a very good content.. Lexi Great job talking about respect, having the youth groups back and grace for new believers you did a very good job. Guys didnt she do good.

Leadership Thought:

Principals govern our interaction with people. Love, grace, gentleness, truth, principles, repentence. To mix these 6 things together into a perfect mix it to be mature in our dealings with people. Our goal is to provide an enviroment of love and grace where the principles of truth can produce repentance.

( You guys are doign great!! Keep it up!! )

Thank you! You are true leaders.

HIDEE HOOO Neighbors:

Long time no blog.. not for lack of thoughts but for lack of sitting down and typing..

I first would like to express my appreciation for all you are doing. I know you are all going far beyoung the call of duty. I see your care, and love for the kids. That is the thing that we most have to offer. I have been told by parents that they appreciate your reaching out to their kids, and the care they know you have for them. They as parents are seeing results and I wanted you to know that. Thank you. Thank you for your reaching out to them, which in turn causes them to grow and reach out ... and so on and so on and so on..

Leadership for the most part is a process if putting the right food in front of the sheep PATIENTLY waitting for them to eat. Most of the time they eat small bites from those who feed them every day and great amounts from visiting farmers. It is amazing how many times we have been teaching something from many angles and then have someone come in who says it just a bit differently and WOW what NEW revelation. This is a good thing. Farming, raising children and leadership are all slow, consistant processes of doing the right thing, having the right attitude and service, expending yourselves for the sake of others over long periods of time.

Something I have been wrestling with this past month is this: I believe we are pressing against the door of the supernatural power. I am grappleing of the knob not knowing where to reach or what it feels like but it is close. I feel the power and prescence of God like never before but it is not to be felt, but to be delt to be asked for and to be seen. We are not a good 'bible teaching' church we are to be a good 'bible living, experiencing' church.

OH GOD I want your presence I want your cry to be my cry. Change me GOD TO reflect you, your love, your power, your purposes, your passion.

I almost forgot.. Clayton and Dustin will be joining us on this blog so as a way for us to communicate with them (by the way their baby was born recently) everything went well. a very proub poppa..