August 8-10 Weekend at LIFE

WOW! If you missed last weekend at Life Church, you really missed it! Starting Friday at 6:00PM, we began a 36-hour prayer vigil in our new church offices. There were stations of prayer for the church, for friends, for the nation, for the world, for special requests, a station to take the Lord's Supper, a station to write down and then shred your sins, and a kneeling station for prayer. Our folks signed up for an hour or more at a time and prayed those 36 straight hours! The presence of God was powerful in that room!

Sunday AM, there was such an awesome sense of expectation. (Duh . . . do you think the prayer time had anything to do with that?) Our worship room was PACKED too. We watched video clips from Centri-Kid and Snowbird camps this summer, had some fantastic worship, and STIX (our movement-dance-drama group) closed out our worship time with a powerful performance. In the sermon, I used a big whiteboard and talked about the differences between "fishing" activities and "boating" activities, then challenged the church to leave the boat to go and become fishers of men. At the altar call, we gave everyone who made a commitment to get out of the boat (TONS of people!) a copy of the book, "101 WAYS TO REACH YOUR COMMUNITY" by Steve Sjogren. In each book, we put in an envelope with 10 one dollar bills with instructions to share this money in the community for the sake of the kingdom. We can hardly wait until testimonies of how people responded begin to trickle in.

After the service, we had a killer cookout! Hamburgers, hot dogs, slaw, beans, chips, and DESSERTS! This was a GREAT day! To GOD be the glory!

Pastor Tim
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