Archive for December, 2007
Last Sunday of 2007
OK…We have completed an amazing year of service! Tomorrow night we will have a time of coming together for prayer and inspiration but our Sunday services are completed for 2007. I can only pray that as we look ahead into 2008 that we will be just as blessed as we were and that [...]
Fresh Start
Last Sunday of 2007!
I am excited to be getting done with this very busy year. I was just getting things printed for service tomorrow and began crunching numbers and I was surprised to see that we have had a little over 46% growth in attendance this year! The exciting part is that [...]
Take Time for Familiy and Friends!
I am feeling a bit more inspired and energetic this morning after reflecting on the great time I have had over the last week. Camille and I got away and went skiing for Christmas which has really become a tradition for us now. This year was the most fun I have had doing [...]
Dixon
It was great getting into town last night and seeing that people were at our old church in Dixon. Catching up with old friends is always great. We had no idea that they would have anything happening there so as we were getting to the exit we saw cars over at the church [...]
Kids
I went to a school Christmas program today and my heart was touched in a greater way than I could ever imagine. First off the kids did such a great job with all the songs, dances, poems and skits. The outfits brought joy to all those in attendance. During the performance I [...]
Christmas Gift Give Away 2007
We had over 450 people come out to recieve gifts and blessings for the Christmas season! Thank you to everyone that made this possible!!
Fast and Pray
The time is quickly approaching for one of the biggest events of our year! The Christmas Gift Give-Away is simply grown way beyond my imagination. This year we have 500 toys, 800 bears, 24 bikes and many adult gifts as well. Now that is great in itself considering that our church is [...]
Unbelievable!
Unbelievable! Simply unbelievable! With the tremendous support that we received we were able to wrap all 500 toys in just three hours!! We had many people last night and we got 260 done in 2 hours then tonight the turn out was just UNBELIEVABLE and we got the rest of them wrapped in [...]
Gift Wrapping
Last night was such a great time! We were able to wrap over half the gifts and at this rate there is a great chance that we could be finished tonight! I am looking forward to going this weekend and really letting God bless the community through us as His servants!
PRAY
I have just heard about the threats at the NIU campus! (See full alert below) We need to pray for our students in every institution of education. The stress of finals can be overwhelming enough and now to have the threats of shootings and violence added to it is more than our [...]