iServe Missions Week

We just finished our iServe Missions Week - an amazing nine days of radical love poured out on our community. We introduced Jesus to others through practical service, sharing the Gospel message and our personal stories of salvation, music, a week of sports ministry, relationships and food in a combination of events out in the park, in homes and at our church.  Phew…we are exhausted!  Both our family and our church know and feel that we have been lifted up in prayer by many people around the globe and want to encourage you that those prayers are being answered as people respond to the Gospel, are healed, and set free.  Let’s keep praying! 

Crouching down beside a very young mother, one of the ladies from our church plant shared her story of how Christ took her out of alcoholism and depression and then prayed with the woman.  We spent the day with her children teaching them about Jesus.  

Another woman, out of desperation and despair in her darkness, came to Christ and has now spent time with our church being comforted, ministered to and is growing in faith and character.  She reached out to the family she sees every week at the laundromat and made sure everyone of them knew that God is real and that He desires a relationship full of love and forgiveness with each one of them. 

We prayed with people for freedom from fear, addictions, sin and know that God has answered those prayers.  We were able to teach and empower people to share their gifts and their unique God story with people – our church is growing stronger and larger.  Maybe our church should have several thousand people in it by now – if we went by the number of people we have shared with, but the reality is many people do find their way back into the drugs, alcohol, violence and pain – a life far from God.  Our heart breaks for the city and these people.  We know God died for them!  The grace of God is too amazing for many to accept – if only they could earn God’s love they think.  Please pray for people’s hearts and minds that they may have spiritual eyes that see and ears that hear the truth.  Pray, too, for our endurance – that as a family of five we may continue to minister and raise up this next generation of world changers. 

This is our month of summer camps.  We are sending three groups of children/youth to camp this year and ask that you would pray for them to have a lasting, life-altering experience with God that affects their mind, their heart and their whole being.  We are believing for powerful transformations in their lives and deep relationships forged between the groups of kids too.  Later in August we will take our entire church up to camp for a weekend retreat.  Soak this event in prayer.  We are believing that deep healing and restoration will take place.  New paths will be laid for huge victories in the lives of these families during that weekend.  Please also pray that the men who have not been coming to church will join their families and connect with God. 

Thankful for your partnership and prayers as we love and serve Jesus,

Chad, Fabiola, Rebecca, Justice and Beniah