Monthly Staff Meeting - July 2009

Every last Tuesday of the month we gather all of our staff together for lunch and to make sure we have communicated to them everything that needs to be distributed to our church body. Yesterday was such an event...only we played volleyball before eating and discussing a new program we are launching. Three teams among the staff competed and the winning team won movie tickets. Everyone had fun and as far as I am aware we came through the games without any serious injuries...PTL!!

Summer Celebration 2009

It's Monday morning and I am reflecting back on the week leading up to our 2nd summer celebration at Camp Highroad. Almost 1,000 people came (more than double 2008) and we baptized 239, 108 more than last years celebration. The week leading up to the event showed us first hand that Satan was not happy with what was about to happen. Many frustrating moments throughout the week, drove us more to our knees as we realized. Not sure how many people crossed over the line of faith these last three weeks leading up to the celebration but 8 crossed over in my office just this past week. PTL for His victory.

My devotions this morning from The Christians Secret to a Holy Life included, in part, some of the following. It was taken from a letter to a friend. I was also reading from John 14 and found that several verses (mainly 16, 21 & 23) enhanced my readings this morning. Enjoy…

Don’t be discouraged at any form of temptation which threatens you, but always look to Jesus, and ask Him to meet and overcome it by His own wisdom and power. I think I am learning more and more of what utter trust means. Having naturally some feeling of personal ability and good sense, it has always been a temptation for me to rely on these and to feel that I wouldn’t be likely to lose my balance whatever happened. But I have seen recently that even my natural abilities must be laid aside in this life of death to self, and that I must really and practically have all my resources in the Lord only.
I do not know whether I am making myself clear, but in my experience this has been very real. It has cost me something to lay aside my old dependence upon my own judgment and good sense, and to let myself be a helpless in the Lord’s hands. But it is unspeakably sweet when it is done. And I believe it is to me the opening up of a life of conscious union with my Lord such as I have never known before. I seem to have sunk into unfathomed depths of littleness and nothingness, and to have found the Lord there in a more real and actual consciousness than ever before.

I am almost finished with Joel’s Rosenberg’s book…Epic Center. I finished a book given to me by Betty Ringeisen entitled Sheep in Wolves Clothing by Valerie McIntyre. Anyone in Care Giving should read and take to heart the testimony of Valerie. Very well written and very informative. Blessings to you today…

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