Updates…
Reaching Ex-Prisoners: The Unwanted
& Despised
Please be in prayer with us as we
continue to pursue God’s will for a potential amazing way to continue
training-up more leaders and planting more churches. We are considering obtaining a house near our
church to create a men’s home where 3-4 handpicked ex-prisoners could come and
be mentored, trained-up and then empowered and released to plant more
churches. This would be a 2-year
internship type program and we would partner with other agencies, such as
Prison Fellowship, to help us with the administrative and other practical sides
of things. These men will have already
been identified and begun their Bible school studies while inside the prison
system.
For the men’s house to be set up
we’re looking at probably a year out, but there are a handful of men to be
released as soon as this summer that Chad will be visiting with during the next
month at the state prison. There are a lot of details and questions that still
need to be worked out, but we wanted to include you in the prayerful process to
discern what God would want to do through this ministry and through the church
we are currently planting.
Thank You!
·
T.V. Last
month we asked for help and we received a great new large screen TV for one of
our children’s classes at the church. It
has already been used a lot and really helps as they now can all see the screen
when they do their worship videos and other teaching and fun material that they
use there.
BEFORE
AFTER
· Yard Sale. We
also received some donations for our yard sale – thank you to everyone that
participated. We had a very successful
yard sale – the first one run solely by our emerging indigenous leaders. Yeah!!!
They were able to welcome everyone into our property and invite them to
come out for our services and Easter programs.
·
Lobby/Youth Room Transformation. Currently
we’re still waiting on everything to come together for the couches and other
elements to transform our youth room into a more comfortable and versatile
space. The goal is that the youth who
meet on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays have a nice space that can also be used
for our pastoral counseling times, prayer times, as a reception or lobby space
after service and for the parents of our tutoring program to have a nice place
to be while their children are in classes.
Also we will be starting an ESL (English as a Second
Language) class for adult in this same space in May with or without the
transform!
Web Page Help
Do you know how to design or
create web-pages? Would like to donate
your expertise to our church plant? We would like to get our web-site fixed up
and running so that it can be another tool to connect us with more people.
Family News:
Our son Beniah is here! We
are so blessed to have Beniah Benjamin in our lives. Rebecca and Justice love to hold him and give
him lots of kisses. They have great
plans for what they will do with him when he is a little bigger. He was born on March 21st – so he
is just about 1 month old and seems to grow every
single day. We’re taking lots of
pictures so you’ll probably see at least one in the next few updates. J
Fabiola’s Birthday….is just
around the corner! [March 26th
to be exact.]
Please
Pray with Us…
·
Pray that we may
effectively engage, equip and empower our church while we do outreach and
ministry in the park, community and during our special services this
weekend. Pray with us that we would see
our church engaged, matured and trained-up in God’s love to reach more people
for Him.
Good Friday service
Easter outreach at the park (Saturday)
Easter Sunday service
·
Please pray with us for salvations! We had a great evangelism training time last
Sunday after service – the majority of
the church stayed after for the training!
Pray that we might effectively share our faith with friends, family,
neighbors and even people we've never seen before – so that God might get the glory.
·
Family Series - One of the biggest needs in our community is
teaching, guidance, help and healing for the families. God has such a great plan and purpose for us
through the family and we will be teaching about that for the next few weeks. Please
pray for a lot of new visitors and for families to be healed and transformed by
the Word and the Spirit.
We are excited about this season,
the Easter season, where we are able to really focus on what Christ did for
us. We have new life! We have left the old and embrace the amazing
new life that He has given to us….now let us pray together and labor together
so that more people may exit their old ways and encounter this amazing life!
Happy Easter!
Chad, Fabiola,
Rebecca, Justice and Beniah
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