Unity – Partnerships (God’s Our Drug)

While you pour into this ministry and our family we wanted to share how this fountain of blessing continues to extend further.  We have been pouring not only into our own community and church, but into other churches and communities as well.  We want to support others.  We can do more together—unity is powerful.  We are reaching out to see these new partnerships develop so that more people can know Jesus and grow in Him.

We have hosted prayer meetings with other area pastors. We have visited other churches and offered trainings to churches much larger than our own and even worked with some of them to put on outreaches in the park. We have had prayer and strategy meetings with Christian teachers that taught at the public school a few blocks from our church.  These teachers already know hundreds of the high schoolers that walk by our church every day.  We have opened the doors of our church so that through these partnerships we can reach more of these youth and help build a bridge in this community between cultures, languages, ages, and even rival gangs.  Together we can reach more youth for Christ. 

“That’s like your drug, huh?” said one of the youth with eyes wide open as he observed a prayer time.  “You guys just got high, didn’t you!?” he shouted out – amazed at what he had just witnessed.  This youth was trying to contextualize that peace that passes all understanding and that inexpressible joy that comes with being with Jesus.  The disciples were accused of being drunk after their prayer meeting in that upper room and now our youth are witnessing the internal change that takes place when our real, living God comes and meets with them.  We want more people to observe and experience that God is real and get to know and grow in Jesus. 

Lastly, we wanted to thank you for praying with us for marriages and families. As you may already know three couples from our church have gotten married in the last few months.  We held our first wedding at our church at the end of February (see picture in the last post) – it showcased powerfully the transformation that the Holy Spirit is causing in our community.  This couple was also baptized on the same day as their wedding!  It was a great day of celebration for our church family. 

Please pray with us for more baptisms and salvations – especially in this strategic Easter season.  We will be starting a teaching series on the family after Easter, so please pray for that to have a lasting impact as we penetrate deeper into enemy territory to proclaim that “Jesus is Alive!” 

We are thankful for Jesus giving us life and that He has given us you to partner with so that together we can reach even more people for Him! 

The Wolyn Family