| (Pastor
Steve Mayfield)
I count it a great joy being in the
house of my God and as He has allowed me the joy and
pleasure of pasturing this church Immanuel Baptist.
I wanted to give you a heartfelt welcome and say thank
you. As we come together as a city to pray, the blessings,
power and strength that that brings is amazing. It is
my pleasure to also introduce Sam Tillery, many of you
know him, but I am grateful for him, so Sam come on
up.
(Sam Tillery)
Welcome on behalf of the Sonoma County
Pastor’s and Prayer Ministry Alliance. We have
been meeting the first Friday of every month for a very
long time now, and Harry Skandera and I represent the
Pastor’s Prayer Alliance and this aspect and with
many aspects of the unity of the body of Christ in this
county.
God has done some phenomenal things
which I will share a little bit more a little later
on that should encourage and excite you, but first for
some instruction about tonight.
City Reach Prayer is about prayer
and it is about gathering with the various representations
from the body of Christ around the County to pray on
a consistent basis the first Friday of every month.
We travel throughout the county, various churches and
cities and are calling the body of Christ together.
We meet on a weekly basis every Wednesday morning as
Pastor’s and spiritual leaders to pray. City Reach
is our opportunity to extend that to the body of Christ
to come together. It’s not about how many people
come, but it’s about us being faithful to come
together and answer the prayer of Christ. Remember Jesus’
prayer in John 17 that we would be one so that the world
may know. So, as we come together as one in prayer,
seeking the Lord, we first focus on the prayer needs
and concerns of the city that we are in.
There is something different when
we represent different aspects of the body of Christ
and we come together and we agree. That is different
than just one section. It’s kind of like one local
church might be the horn section if you are talking
about a symphony or an orchestra. Another church in
the city may be the violin section and they have a unique
distinctive voice and expression to the Lord. As we
come together in our prayer, that is when the Bible
says, where two or three agree, well the word agree
comes from the word symphony. That is a whole different
idea, when you think about when two or three come together
in symphony, that it has diverse sounds and expressions,
but when they play the same song it sounds different.
Our song is that we would lift up the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That we exalt Him, that He is the way
the truth and the life, and when we do that from the
various expressions of the body of Christ, it blesses
the heart of God and it pushes back the works of darkness
and makes a way for the Gospel to go forth.
We must couple our prayers also with
actions, so what we have been experiencing is as we
pray together and then begin to care for the community
in acts of kindness and love and such, then it opens
avenues, doors, ears and hearts for us to share the
Gospel.
We’ve often got it backwards
in Christendom, we go out and share and we really haven’t
bathed the community in prayer and we certainly have
not demonstrated the consistency of caring. The caring
may be self seeking and saying, “We love you if
you come into our building”, well they are not
in our building typically. So, what this is, is the
very nature and fact that we come together as one is
spiritual warfare. As we agree together and come together
in symphony in diversity in expression.
Tonight we are going to be praying
together and we will be giving you direction in your
prayer. When you pray in your small groups, don’t
pray long prayers, this is not about you. Get to the
point. What is it that we want God to do for this city.
Your detailed prayers about your life are to take place
in the closet or somewhere else, but tonight is us agreeing
together, “God, do something in our city and in
our churches.”
The second half we will focus on Immanuel
Baptist. We from diverse churches in the county come
together in agreement come together to pray blessing
upon this church and it’s leadership and vision.
We will be hearing from Pastor Steve about some of the
challenges and dreams that they have, so that we can
agree together to see God release things in this ministry
that perhaps have not been released until the body comes
together in agreement. That is kind of how things will
flow tonight. We will maybe start by praying as a large
group and then we will break up into small groups.
We want to encourage you that when
you break up into small groups that the idea tonight
is not that you pray in a safe context of just the people
that you know and are familiar with, we want you to
break up and connect with someone that you don’t
know. Now you’ve got symphony. If you pray with
just those that you know and your like kind, then your
not loving the Bride of Christ. The Bride of Christ
represents the diversity in the body, so tonight is
an opportunity for us to express ourselves to other
aspects of the Bride that we are meeting, because they
are the expressions of Christ. Does that make sense?
So, we are going to mix it up a little bit tonight and
I’m just letting you know ahead of time, ok.
Please take your Bible for a moment
and turn to Romans 14. Verse one starts out, “Accept
him whose faith is weak.” Isn’t that a great
attitude? Now, maybe one of the things that the city
has not been doing is accepting those that are weak.
Would you say that’s the case? Sometimes, those
that are weak in whatever form, we tend to judge. The
scripture then goes on to say, “Without passing
judgment or on disputable matters.” This says
don’t pass judgment on disputable matters and
yet many churches in the community are divided over
disputable matters, in other words, they don’t
know how to measure on the measures. The disputable
matters happen to be in the context that God is a diverse
God. If I play the trumpet so to speak, that is my sound.
I don’t have to sound like the violin if I am
a trumpet. The Bible likens our body as the body of
Christ with many members, so my hand doesn’t have
to act like a foot, because it’s a hand, and so
about the body of Christ he says, “Without passing
judgment on disputable matters.” Now, let’s
take a moment and I want you to listen to what disputable
matter may be within the community today that we could
pray that God would bring healing to and then I am going
to give you and opportunity to speak that out.
(prayer)
Lord, help us now. We invite you to
lead us as we offer our prayer to you, that you would
release your blessing. Father, we take a moment and
we listen to your still small voice to what you would
have us to pray into these things that have been disputable
matters that we may experience your healing and that
we would identify them and walk differently. Father
we are wanting to align ourselves with the scripture
that tells us if we confess our sin, we come representing
more than just ourselves, but he body of Christ tonight,
so as we identify things that have been snags and stumbling
blocks that have been sin, Lord we speak them out together
and ask that you would bring healing.
Go ahead and speak some of those things
out loud that came to your mind.
- Acceptance of gifts of the Spirit.
- Historical barriers
- Not putting others before ourselves
- Different worship styles
- Outreach styles
- Church styles
Father, we place these things that
we have mentioned at your feet and we ask that you would
move throughout Santa Rosa and Sonoma County and bring
healing where these things have been mentioned that
brought hurt, division, pain and un-acceptance. Father,
we on behalf of the greater body of Christ, confess
that we have been judgmental. We would ask that you
would help us to repent of these things and to walk
differently and uprightly. As your scripture says Lord
that we ought to stop passing judgment on one another,
instead making up our mind to not put any stumbling
block or obstacle in his/her path, so Father, help us
as a church. As we are one body with many congregations,
help us to stop these things and move forward in getting
on with the business of loving our community for Christ.
May our community see that we are disciples, because
we are loving one another, so help us in this. Amen.
(Sam Tillery)
I am going to read another passage
from scripture then I am going to have Harry come and
lead us. Romans 15:1 – “We who are strong
ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not
to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor
with his good to build him up.”
So, Father help us to see how we can
build one another up. How we can pray even tonight to
build up this city and community. As we build one another
up and bless one another, they will see that we are
your disciples and will be drawn to an irresistible
church that displays the acceptance and the love of
Christ, so help us in these things Lord and we give
you thanks. Amen.
(Harry Skandera)
It is so good to be here tonight at
Immanuel Baptist. We have a clip board that should be
getting passed around and if you could be sure and sign
that, we would appreciate it. Please put your congregations
name and an e-mail so that we can let you know when
and where the next City Reach Prayer will be meeting
at.
Sam talked about how we can really
build up our city by praying for one another. One of
the unique opportunities we have when we are here with
many different congregations, is we not only get the
opportunity to pray together, but we get to pray for
each other. Sometimes that is a little bit intimidating,
but that is what we are here for, to pray and to build
up the city. We are going to do that right now and there
are 36 of us here tonight, so if we cut that in half
that gives us 18. So, I am going to count from 1 –
18 and when I am finished go ahead and match up with
your number and that will be your prayer partner for
tonight. You can join with another partner group so
that there are 4 to a group.
Here’s what we would like to
do tonight. Scripture tells us in Proverbs 15:29 that
He hears the prayers of the righteous. I know that in
a group with this many people there may be many needs
and even tragedy’s that have occurred that probably
needs prayer, but I am going to challenge you tonight
to in these next few moments to build the body of Christ
by, number 1 taking a few moments to get to know your
partner just a little bit, then I want you to thank
the Lord for that person. After giving thanks for them,
I want you to pray for them and bless them. I would
like you to consider blessing them by praying for them
that God would bless them with the very thing that you
desire others to know you by and what you desire that
God bless you with. What is the one thing that you would
have others remember you by and that God has poured
into your life and pray that same blessing into your
partners life, because you’ve been given that
to bless somebody else.
(Prayer)
(Harry Skandera)
I wanted to mention about a movie that
is out right now called, “One night with the King.”
The message that is in this movie I think is for us
in this time right now and is not accident that it is
now in our theatre.
You know, there are windows of opportunity
in the history of a nation.
God is coming to America again, knocking
on our hearts door and the key of His coming here is
not the un-believers. It’s not the sinners who
don’t know any better. It’s the church,
it’s us.
This is a very important election
coming up. This isn’t about politics. There is
enough unrighteousness in both party’s right now
that we need to clean house, but we need to vote. As
Christians, we need to vote. To pray into something
and not exercise the right and the authority that we
have been given is contradicting. We need to vote and
we need to pray. Do I prefer one party over another?
Yes, but I prefer the Lord and God is cleaning house
right now and we’ve got to pray.
We are in such a critical time right
now. If we allow all of the negativity that is out there
discourage us at this time when things are so weak,
then we deserve this.
This is a time to cry out, to stand
for what is right and to go to battle for what matters.
Who is going to do it? It’s not the people out
there who don’t know, it’s us. So, I want
us in our prayers to pray for one another, but also
to pray for this election. I am not going to tell you
how to pray. God knows, but we need God’s hand
to move here.
We now have 15 justices that are on
the right side of abortion and there is going to be
another one that is to be selected, but what happens
in this election is going to determine who that person
is and so we need to pray, so let’s pray into
this election. It says in Proverbs 14:34 – “Righteousness
exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.”
We also need to pray about something
that is a great opportunity for this city. Nicky Cru
is going to be coming to our fairgrounds this next Friday
and Saturday and it has been a while since there has
been a big time evangelistic endeavor in town. I believe
that that is an answer to prayer in regards to the city
and the gang issues here, as Nicky’s testimony
is very near to the heart of gangs, since he was delivered
from that lifestyle himself.
Last City Reach Prayer we had a man
with us that has planted over 100 churches in a Muslim
Country, but has spend a huge portion of his time coming
here as a missionary, because he has a burden for America
and the thing that breaks his heart the most, is that
he can’t understand why Americans
don’t love America. That is God’s
mercy to us, sending people like that into our county
as an indication that God is wanting to help us. Let’s
pray for the lost.
(Prayer)
(Harry Skandera)
There are four other things that I
would like us to pray about tonight.
I really appreciated the worship tonight.
It reminded me and I am sure many of us, of songs that
our parents knew and used to sing more often.
How many people here are over 50? I
would like everyone who just raised their hand to come
right out here to the middle aisle.
We are not supposed to be retiring,
but we are supposed to be re- firing. This is a Joshua
generation, holding up our arms so that the young warriors
can win this battle. Pray for us, because we are not
going to go the way of what’s happened in some
of our previous, older generations. You are here to
usher in the kingdom of God that is going to come through
you and your children and we need your prayers. There
is something here about entitlement and retirement that
needs to be broken in our country. We need the hearts
of the children to turn to the fathers and the hearts
of the fathers to turn to the children.
We would like the younger folks to
lay hands on the older and bless them and pray for them.
(Prayer)
(Harry Skandera)
Listen, before I turn it back over
to Sam, I have one more thing that I would like to say.
Many of you are used to praying, but we need you to
pray for your pastor and we need to lift up our leaders
and we need to learn to receive God’s answer to
our prayer. Many of us have gotten in the habit of asking
God for things and either not testifying when He answers
or not expecting His answer. We just keep on going and
ask for the next thing and the next. This is a time
where we’ve got to receive what the Lord is bringing.
(Sam Tillery)
Before we move to praying for Immanuel
here, I want to share something. I pastor Foothills
Community Church and we are doing something I would
like you to pray for, something that relates to the
community as a whole and that is this Nov. 19th, which
is the Sunday before Thanksgiving, we are going to be
having a different kind of a service where we are going
to be inviting various representatives from native American
tribes to come. We want to just bless them with a meal
and to honor them, get to know them and to hear from
them. We don’t know how many are going to come
and that doesn’t matter. We are going to start
to walk the way that we believe that the Lord wants
us to walk as a church and will hopefully spark others
to treat the indigenous people of this land with the
honor that they are due and that is in the heart of
God that we do. We are cursed and we are judged as a
nation, because we have racial issues throughout this
country, because it goes all the way back to the early
years of how we did not treat people right. We cannot
change history, but we can do something about right
now. I would like you to pray for us, that it would
not be just a Foothills thing, but it would be a spark
that others would begin to hear the Lord of how they
can reach into the community.
I was driving to town from the lake
this afternoon and the Lord prompted me to go by a man’s
home that I met a few weeks back. I had bought a truck
for my son from him and he happens to be a native American
Indian. I couldn’t remember exactly his last name,
but all that I could remember was somewhat of where
his house was where we had gone to make that transaction,
but the Lord just prompted me to go and invite him to
the 19th. So, I drove by where I thought it was and
he happened to be in the yard. I pulled up and said
hello to him.
He came over to me and we started chatting
and I told him that I just wanted to invite him to our
church for the event that I just mentioned to you all,
and I told him that we just want to honor him and the
blessing he is as an indigenous person here, and he
was just blown away. He took out a pen and wrote down
on a piece of paper when it was and this was just confirmation
to me that we are doing the right thing. I was busy,
I was traveling somewhere else, but the prompting's
come and if you don’t do it at that time then
it just gets washed away by life’s business, so
I am glad that I responded with that and so I would
like to just pray that he will end up coming to the
event and others as well.
God is bringing healing to the land.
We were in Yosemite last May and we
had gone as a church and Pastor Ben Mindell, a native
American pastor that many of you know, was camping with
us. That is no accident, you see if you are going to
build relationship and your going to love people, you’ve
got to be outside of a formal service, so I had invited
him to go camping with us.
I didn’t realize that the original
inhabitants and stewards of Yosemite where the Miwok
people, of which he is Miwok. Ben called the chief of
the Miwok’s and asked him to come and meet Sam
Tillery and some of the people from Foothills. This
man drives four hours to spend 45 minutes with us. He
was sharing some things with us and one of those was
how his adult son was going through a divorce.
We then prayed with him and blessed
him and he is the head man of the Miwok’s. He
goes back and speaks to his son and invited him to promise
keeper’s just a few weeks ago and they went and
he gave his life to Jesus. God is moving.
So, I don’t know if the will
be there at Foothills on the 19th, but would you just
pray that God would begin to move on their hearts. The
problem is not them, it is us, the white folks. We come
in and we dominate, take over and we push around and
that is just who we are, but in Christ we ought to not
be that way.
Pray that God would stir up the church
to rise up and be a blessing and show honor and respect.
To stop sending all of our missions money overseas and
forget that there is a mission right here.
It’s a lot more than money, but
it’s your time and your heart to connect with
a people group that I believe that as we do that, we
begin to release in the spiritual realm a healing of
reconciliation and restoration with the breakdown with
the various racial issues across our country. It starts
with us getting back to the fundamental. Does that make
sense?
Just pray out where you are a short
prayer and we will then move on to praying for the people
and ministry of Immanuel Baptist Church.
(Prayer)
Lord, may we pray continuously for
your love to be made known to all peoples and may this
be the beginning of a new movement that will result
in reconciliation.
Father, we want to speak salvation
over the native American people. Lord, your original
intent when we came across this land, Father was that
we would represent you. We pray back into your original
intent Lord, that we would actually represent you and
that they would come to know you. May they profit from
our gifting's and may we profit from theirs.
(Sam Tillery)
Ok, you folks in the back, are you
a part of this church? I want to tell you that you have
a great pastor. We have been starting to get to know
pastor Steve here through the Pastor’s Prayer
Alliance as he has been praying with us and you can
be proud. Steve, you are an answer to prayer, not only
for your congregation, but for us as the Pastor’s
Prayer Alliance. As new pastors come into this community,
we really pray that God would bring ones that have a
heart to answer the prayer of Christ. When you came
in and articulated yourself and have really been in
the trenches, has really been an encouragement to us.
Eventually all of you will get a chance
to see our new DVD. I have brought some copies here
if you would like one, it is called “Breakthrough
Sonoma County”, and Steve is in there and articulates
very well what God is doing, so I just wanted you all
to know that your pastor Steve is not only a blessing
to you, but he is a blessing to this county and I am
going to ask you now Steve to come and share some prayer
points and how we can pray for this specific ministry.
We are shifting gears now for God’s
purposes and blessings for Immanuel Baptist. So, please
come now and share what are your struggles, visions
and some ways that we can be lifting you up in prayer.
(Pastor Steve)
Something that I have shared with Sam,
Harry and others is that I have prayed for a number
of years that God would allow me to be in a community
that has a unity that is Christ centered. A unity that
proclaims the hope and the life that is given to all
peoples. A willingness to say, “You know what,
for a period of time, I am going to set aside my personal
agenda’s for the greater kingdom call”,
and that is the passion that I have. It isn’t
a passion that I have sought after, but it is one that
He has given to me.
For us as a church, some of the struggles
that we have is that we are a church that next year
will be celebrating it’s 60th birthday. As exciting
and as wonderful as that is to look at the history of
our church and how God has used us a church in the past,
it has been wonderful and incredible, but sometimes
you know that history sometimes acts as shackles for
us as congregation to be an effective catalyst for Christ
in the future. I would ask that you would join us in
prayer that God would bring a unity for the body with
the diversity that exists here as a congregation.
We have, as you have seen, quite a
few that are fifty years and more and we also have very
young people as well, and that brings with it challenges.
Sometimes it brings exciting, fun and wonderful challenges
and other times not quite so fun challenges. Also, I
believe that it is not by chance that we are directly
across the Middle School. I would ask you to pray for
and join us in ways that we can be a blessing to the
school in ways that will cause them to wonder, “Why
are you doing that?” Then we can be quick and
ready to respond with the answer which is Jesus. Those
are the issues that are a burden on my heart.
Families park in our parking lot Monday
through Friday dropping off kids.
Some exciting things that are happening
in our life, coming up we are going to for the first
time that I know of, provide a Thanksgiving meal here
for those that don’t have families. Those that
during the holiday season, the Thanksgiving season may
get left out and so, I would just pray that God will
use us on that day.
Also, please pray for an incredible
connection that I have made with a man from Georgia
who God has called to come here as a missionary. God
has seen fit to connect him here and his heart for the
lost is going to greatly impact this community and it
is going to be infectious, so those are a few things
that I see God moving in and how my heart is pulled
in this church right now.
I really want Immanuel Baptist to
be used to impact the kingdom of God and for that to
happen, I know that it is really going to take obedience
and a willingness to trust in Him. I do not want to
be a people for the Lord that go into following Him
by shrugging our shoulders and smirking our faces with
the attitude of saying, “Well, I guess if you
want me to I will”, but I want us to be going
about it with great joy, passion and compassion.
(Sam Tillery)
I am going to ask those of you who
are a part of Immanuel Baptist church to come right
here in the middle with pastor Steve. You are all standing
here as proxy’s standing here to receive blessings
from the body of Christ. If the rest of us here could
gather around them and lay hands of them and pray for
them.
(Prayer)
God, I pray that you would raise up
more men here to be passionate for  Christ
and that they would be the men of God that they are
supposed to be in their homes and in the community.
May they desire to help him and to hunger after the
word of God. Help them to be humble before you. Give
Steve those that he can mentor and trained up those
to multiply the ministry. God give him the ability to
have the freedom to do what it is that he is designed
to do and renew him vision and use him in a great way
in this community. I pray that he would not get discouraged,
Father and that you would strengthen his faith. Father,
bless his wife and kids. Lord, we pray that you would
give him health and God we thank you for his wife and
that you would use her in mighty ways in their home
and in his heart. We pray that you would strengthen
this church God and what a testimony we can have in
this place, God.
Lord, we pray for generational blessings
to flow through this place and a breaking of hearts
that would prepare them to have your love and healing
to powerfully flow through them and that reconciliation
would be obvious in the family of the church.
Lord, we pray for vision from the oldest
to the youngest, that they would move and flow and that
any hindrances that have come up would be broken off
in Jesus name.
We pray for the school across the street
and every person that is there, that their hearts would
be turned towards you and that your love and destiny
would be accomplished in each life. Draw them to you
and for your through this church across from Slater.
Bless them and make them a blessing. May this be a habitation
for the Lord’s presence. Judgment will come on
all the earth and this community. There will come a
time when men and women will come streaming in this
door looking for meaning and looking for a sense of
meaning and refuge from the world and may the presence
of God be here and will still be standing. We pray that
this will be a place where the spirit of God dwells
and people will find that this is what is lasting and
the only God to put your hope and refuge in.
Lord, we pray for intercessors to be
praying for this church and for Steve and his family.
Father, guard and protect them we pray and give them
the fuel that they need to keep their vision and hearts
strong for your kingdom.
(Sam Tillery)
If you are in your 20’s or younger
if you will come up here. I am going to ask if all of
you young people will surround pastor Steve. I want
you all to pray and understand that you represent your
age bracket and pray that God would bring into this
congregation an awakening to the young people and that
God would just bless pastor Steve with the ability to
speak into their lives and be a place of refuge for
them as well.
(Prayer)
(Sam Tillery)
If you are wondering where to go to
get information about the next City Reach Prayer you
can find that info by going to the web site www.unitedprayer.org.
We don’t know yet where we will
be meeting next month, but January we will be in Windsor
and February will probably be in Healdsburg, so we are
on the move. We thank the Lord for that. If you are
interested in one of our new videos, they are inspiring
and encouraging on what God is doing.
The DVD is free or you can make a
donation to Pastors Prayer and Ministry Alliance (PPMA).
This is just like any ministry is our home mission that
we are uniting for the cause of Christ. We encourage
you above and beyond the support of your local church
to support this as you can. This is to inspire and encourage,
so if you take one you cannot let it sit on a shelf.
Please watch it and share it with your congregation
and pastor.
There are four videos on this single
DVD and they are self explanatory on what is going on
and the various issues.
We recently went to St. Louis for
a Missions America gathering where cities and communities
and leaders that are working as we are to see the body
of Christ work together and communities broaden to a
greater awareness of Christ, come together to learn
from one another at this conference. We showed this
breakthrough video to show what God is doing here, and
just to be of encouragement to you guys, the place erupted
in applause when they saw what the Lord is doing here.
We are talking about leaders from all
over the United States and it inspired them to what
they might like to see happening in their community.
Now, we can be thankful for what God is doing here,
but we cannot sit back and think that we have arrived,
because we haven’t, but God has done some wonderful
things.
It is because of our prayers, through
caring and sharing, God is using this to actually inspire
the city. It isn’t actually designed for the un-churched
community, but a few of the city leaders had heard about
it and wanted to see it for themselves, so I gave them
a copy. I met with one of the administrators yesterday
and he said that he thought that it was phenomenal and
wonderful.
As a result, the city has asked us,
we do have an alliance, an immediate ministry which
we are endeavoring to develop media and put what God
is doing in the community on television and so that
is in a growing process. The city has asked us to put
together a video and work together with them for disaster
preparedness for the community, and so we have accepted
that.
While sitting there in their offices
yesterday, I said, “Why are you asking us to help
you? Why not somebody else?” They answered that
the united churches have already made such an incredible
difference and have had such a positive power and force
in this community, and so they want us to help them
tell the story of how people can be prepared, because
we will tell a deeper story than simply being physically
prepared for an earthquake or whatever, but also the
deeper things.
I said, “You know what is happening
here, there is a merging of church and state.”
They laughed and said that they are coming to realize
that they don’t have anything to be fearful of.
We still have to be careful how we word things and such,
but as a result at the end of the conversation there,
two of the men one for the county and one representing
the city, raised right there on the spot 10,000 dollars
towards the project and he said,
“Would ten thousand
dollars help you to produce the video?”
I said, “Well, sure.”
Then another man piped up and said that he could probably
get another five thousand to help. We are in the process
of teaming up with them and we will start next week
working with the city again.
This all has stemmed out of the relationship
we have had because we prayed that God would give us
favor, and we have stepped out in caring. In fact, Spring
Clean this year is branching out into Petaluma, Windsor,
Sonoma and others are wanting to come on board with
Spring Clean this year in their city, because they heard
about it here and the city officials are getting excited.
It has been that caring and sharing
that has opened the doors for us to now share. In their
offices I speak about Jesus Christ and I make it very
clear, not in a deceitful way, but they understand exactly
what we are about and they appreciate the fact that
we don’t shout it from the rooftops, but there
is that earned virtue of the caring to where we can
speak into their lives.
As a result, last Thursday at Foothills,
the city came and presented how we as a community can
learn and be prepared in any kind of an emergency. We
invited all of those living around the church and the
city gave the presentation.
I then handed out flyers that said
what I was going to be teaching on for the next 4 Sundays
and it is a series called, preparing for life’s
disasters and one of the city officials came and then
came to church, because we are showing interest as the
body of Christ for what the city is interested in and
now we are moving in partnership. The city, county and
the churches to say, how do we let the community know
that we care and want to do our part to help in these
issues.
So, all of that to say that God is
really at work here and let us continue to work, pray
and serve together to the glory our Father above.
Special Thanks to Christelle Eddy
who transcribed this document. |
