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Limits And Margin

Posted: July 5th 2011

Our Leadership Team just saw a great vidio series about limits by Andy Stanley. Here are a few things I learned.

Everone has limits, if you don't set them someone else will and you won't like the results.
Our limits should reflect space for us to have some margin. Margin gives us room to do other things like relax and receive the unexpected and have a quiet conversation with family and others withour being pushed. Also margin gives us time to see what God is doing in our lives.

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Temporary Change

Posted: May 31st 2011

And now for a commercial announcement....... We are getting the word out in as many ways as possible.

Sunday Worship will temporarally change to a new location for a few weeks this summer while the Middle School is being remodeled.

Starting Sunday June 5th 10 A.M. we will meet at Nichols Elementary School at 1301 S. Crescent Ave. This is very near the Carl's Jr. on Kettleman St. In fact Crescent runs into Kettleman at Carl's Jr.

Most Sunday's we will meet at this school for June and…

Sad Day You----- Know What I Mean !

Posted: May 25th 2011

What a sad day for Christians. The May 21st fiasco was so very sad for believers. No one knows the mind of Christ or the day of rapture or day of judgment.

The atheists, comedians, skeptics, journalists and all doubters in general had a big day making fun of very serious coming events on God's calendar.

Yes, Mr. Camping was so very wrong! Yes, he brought ridicule to the name of Christ!

Yes, we need to pray for him!

One good thing! Mr. Camping did believers a favor by reminding us t…

Weird

Posted: May 10th 2011

Yes "WEIRD" that's the name of the book I'm reading by Craig Groeschel. The first few chapters are about the use of time. Most people are normal and spend 28 hours a week in front of the TV and 16 hours additionally each week in front of their computers. That is an enormous amount of time. Craig says believers should be "weird" and use their time more wisely.

Craig wrote " we have enough time to do everything God wants you to do", wow! When I complain about not having time maybe my prioriti…

Results Of Resurrection

Posted: April 20th 2011

The writing of the four gospels including 30 chapters on the last week of Jesus life.
The boldness of the apostles to preach the gospel everywhere inspite of persecution.
The beginning of the Christian church which spread very rapidly.
The proof that Jesus is who He claimed to be.
The miracle of multitudes of transformed lives throughout history.
The promise of our own resurrection in the future which may be soon.
The joy of experiencing Jesus promise to no…

Looking Back On Haiti

Posted: April 6th 2011

We had so many blessing of that trip. I wanted to detail just a few

Working with the Haitian Pastor Marc was great . Seeing his dedication and diligence. He started the church from zero and now five years later has approx 100 faithful believers including some who left the Voodoo cult.

Meeting Haitian villagers as we visited from door to door and seeing how they actually live their lives on a daily basis. Several of them were ill and just lying outside on a mat spread out on the ground. Li…

Back From Haiti

Posted: March 21st 2011

It was another world. We traveled outside the city of Port au Prince, about a one and half hour drive. It seemed like we were on another continent. It felt like a different cosmos. Our experience was totally new from last year where we lived in the earthquake ravaged capital city.

Our trip to the village of Merceron was a total shock. This is what we saw. I will just give you a list of things and let you absorb it the way we saw it when we were there.

Women carried water in buckets …

Getting Close

Posted: March 2nd 2011

Only a week away and our Haiti Team leaves for an exciting adventure with God.

Thank you for praying. Please continue to pray. God is answering prayers for the team. Our team members Justin and Nina Fischer are now only a few hundred dollars short of the needed amount.

Our airfare went up at the last moment and each member of the team had to come forth with another 300. dollars. But all money has come in except the last 300. dollars for the Fischers. Please pray and God will hear no doubt!…

Helping Haiti Heal

Posted: January 20th 2011

As you know Haiti is still in very desperate need of much help and prayers.

Our Haiti Team will leave rather soon , Mar. 11-18 for an important ministry there of evangelism, orphan care and encouragement to leaders and Pastors.

Will you pray now and until we leave for a great outreach? Pam I and are truly grateful that our financial needs have been taken care of. However, some of our six team members really need financial assistence. Would you pray for them? They are really stepping out …

The Nutcracker

Posted: January 11th 2011

Over the holidays Pam and I went to see the Nutcracker at the historic Paramount Theatre in Oakland.

We had a special reason for making the trip. My niece was dancing in the starring role as Marie. Also my sister from West Virginia came many miles through winter snow storms to see her daughter perform the lead role.

We were all bursting with pride and excitement to see our beautiful family member achieving a life long dream (she is the ripe old age of 21 years) come true.

But no one j…