Saturday, November 19, 2005

MUCHAS GRACIAS

Thank you to OREACH TEAM today who decided to GO4GOD in Apple Valley!

I don't even know how many showed up, so many! If I could address all of you as God's child~ God's servant, God's messengers~ All of your names~ WOW. Thank you for being doers, not hearers only of the WORD!

Thank you also to the Holl Family and their daughters Evie (8) and Gillian (6) who saved all their money and donated it to be used for OUTREACH. Thank you for HOPE CHAPEL CHILDREN who don't get why us adults hesitate to serve but GO4GOD and encourage us parents and adults to throw away our excuses~ affirming and motivating us into action for JESUS!

Thank you especially to Bobby and Dot Chance who took their "free" afternoon up here to join us in bringing our love for Jesus through worship and ministry in Apple Valley!

Thank you for all the clothes, food, face paint, worship, prayers, bbq, set up, clean up, hugs, handshakes, introductions, photography and love given out today to our neighbors.

Dear Jesus,
We stand in faith with our neighbors, your children who are seeking you. We lift up Johnny and Francis who we have made contact with today in Apple Valley. Lord, we ask a special blessing on them and all the children there who witnessed your love for them through an ordinary afternoon. We thank you Father in advance of the VICTORY, your VICTORY of winning their hearts and minds! We praise you for each conversation, each blessing that once again came to our home and we are overwhelmed at your blessings ten fold, constantly reaching this doorstep. Lord, I ask for protection of these families, of their minds, of their homes. I ask that you will be merciful to them, strengthen them, lift them up that all of those children who prayed you into their hearts today Jesus, that they would arise and become mighty young men and women of God. That they would rebuke the enemy and turn their hearts and minds and focus on YOU, Father God. Dear Jesus we ask that more teams from Hope Chapel East, Hope Chapel West, Hope Chapel Windsor would come together to serve you through OUTREACH right here. The mission field is inside our homes, outside our cars, in our neighborhoods, down our streets...let us arise and be present shouting your name with boldness and truth and grace~ your truth, Jesus, let it be known in Sonoma County. Lord, thank you for the glimpse of your love today in action~ In Jesus POWERFUL Name! AMEN

1 comment:

tonie~ said...

Thank you for all that came out to Apple Valley to witness in the name of Jesus our Savior. Let us not let this go to the way side during the holiday season. A season that can consume us with duties of family and friends.Let us think of the new friends that we made Saturday. Let us remember the faces of the children as they echoed Bobby in his call to the Lord. The gentle smiles of the mothers as they shyly approached, and the men as the stood off to the side with the tough exteriors. Let us not forget, but let us return to deepen those relationships, to further witenss to the poeple of Apple Valley. Let us not forget!!