Good Sunday

We had 33 in attendance with 3 first time visitors. I am very happy that God was in control, cause I certainly was not! I got a cal from Chrissy at 1030. She told me Ella Blair had burned her hand on the iron. I rushed home to help with bandages, and Chrissy had to stay home with Ella Blair. It was just Glen and I leading worship and I was a wreck. Glenn offered up some encouraging words and we made it through and everyone said the music was great. THANKS GOD! Ella Blair is doing good. Brother Chuck Fernandez did an excellent job. We took up a love offering for him and he was headed to INWOOD this afternoon. We also had someone commit to come out to our midweek home group! People are diggin deeper! Hope all is well, I really missed being in the pulpit.

Guest Speaker this Sunday

I completely forgot that I am not preaching this Sunday. Oh well Ive got my message ready for next week. Brother Chuck Fernendaz (Missionary to Africa) will be with us Sunday morning. I met this brother while doing deputation. I beleive God is going to great things through him. The building is coming along very well. We just ordered all of our new media equipment (NOT CHEAP) we spent 10 gran! I am so excited that our building is beginning to look ALIVE again. I spent the day cutting 10 acres of grass with the new mower we just purchased. The property looks great. I continue to see the community stop and stare as they drive by to try and get a glimpse of what is going on. Our new sign should be ready in about two weeks and Robbie Myers (Cave City) is working on our flyers and posters for the community. We will start door knocking in about 3 weeks. Hope all is well with everyone! 

GOING TO A PHILLIES GAME

Well Sat I will be going to the Phillies / Dodgers game. Glen (One of our worship leaders) got some tickets and asked me to come along. I am very excited! The work is going well on the building. As of today the sanctuary is about finished, and the outside work is on going. We had a good teen group out tonight, about 20. Hope everyone is doing well. 

THEYRE HERE!

I arrived at the church this morning at about 7:30am to find the painters busy at it (in the sanctuary) and also the exterior guys starting to put up our new siding! I am so excited to see how things are going to turn out! Ill take some pics as the work continues and post them. Im gonna go work on my student lesson for tonight, LATER

Still waiting on the Construction Workers to Get started

Hurry up and wait! I thought the outside construction was going to start today but, well they say tom... We'll see. Painters will start tom. I spent most of the morning cleaning out the rest of the rooms downstairs. I finally got rid of the last bit of "junk". But something was different today and that was the fact that I had help! A couple from our church came out and helped Chrissy, Ella Blair and I!!! I got my sermon finished up for Sunday, CANT WAIT TO PREACH! I have to meet the carpet guy at 9 tom to give him the deposit for the work he will start after the painters are finished. I had an awesome meatball sandwich for dinner tonight! MMMMM gotta love them Jersey sandwiches. 

SIT DOWNS WITH PEOPLE

I had the chance to sit down and talk to an awesome couple whose son I baptized last month. I was able to talk to them about their faith and let them know exactly what Grace Baptist was all about. Please pray for the seed that was planted into this families life. I also am having lunch today with another one of our teens father. Please pray about this appointment as well. I am trying to plant seeds and I am praying that God will bless these seeds. Hope everyone has a good day! Also our new church sign is being constructed and the building will start going thru its "face lift" the end of this week. We will be...

 - Painting the entire inside of the building

 - Getting new siding on the exterior

 - New lighting in the sanctuary

 - New carpet thru out the downstairs

 - Having some minor construction done in various places in and around the building

The purpose is to allow Gods House to reflect the True Beauty of who God is, If that is at all possible.

Good Sunday and a Good Huddle

We had 30 in services this morning. Attendance is hanging on in the low to upper 30s. We did have a first time visitor. Yesterday we had a Huddle to discuss our official first OUTREACH attempt that will be help this Fall called Community Day. Plans are being made to let the community know who we are and what we are about.

Good Worship

We didn't have 62, we had a total of 32 but man we had a wonderful time giving praise, worship, and glory to God! I preached on the subject "How Important Is The Church?" Alters were filled with people who were getting with God. I love the POWER of Gods Word and His great and wonderful church! We are making progress. We just ordered our new logo'd sign for the front of the church building. We will be having a work day on the property in the coming weeks. The goal is to paint the entire downstairs. We are in the process of getting ready to give the building a much needed face lift. Thank you for your prayers as I am praying for all of you!

New Phone Number

Heres my new JERSEY number. 1 856 217 5636

Check this out

 Check this out. A play off of the MAC/PC commercials, pretty cool

WOW

We had a wonderful Service Today! 62 in attendance and 4 baptized!!! I was in AWE! God did it and I was just a spectator of His Work! I know there will be ups and downs but this Sunday was def an UP! God rocked the house!