Friday, January 30, 2009

some praises and some craziness

whats up everybody!!!!  

so i got some really cool things that i need to let you know about...
1st.  so two weekends ago, we had a second winter weekend at rockbridge for kids in cities on the east coast....this year..we had washington, dc...stauton, va...lexington, ky...charlotte, nc...salisbury, nc...greensboro, nc...and roanoke, va.  it was amazing.  sophia cox was our speaker and i haven't been thanked more about bringing a certain speaker in ever.  she did a fabulous job of proclaiming the truths of Jesus Christ through the story of her life and through scripture.  kids crossed over from death to life...i'm so thankful God allowed me to be apart of such a great weekend.  we ended up with about 275 kids and leaders there.  please pray for these kids and leaders as they are back home walking through life together.  shout out to dj promote.

2nd...i had probably the best meeting i have every had with a pastor on thursday...pastor manny from spirit and truth fellowship in north philadelphia.  i encourage you to check him out...he was the type of guy you just know you want to follow around and watch live...he is doing so much in the community and has such a long legacy of kids he has reached out too now in full time ministry themselves.  21 kids so far of the streets and now ministers/pastors...cool..isn't it.  he is also a professor at westminster seminary...i'm praying that he comes on our committee...please join me in that.  i was meeting with him about the latino student program we got approved for...(he is a latino pastor)...so yeah..really good guy and a guy i will hopefully see each week now through some stuff we are going to pray through and try with his church and the church plants from his church.

3rd...we had our first volunteers meeting last night....YEAH...me and one other guy meet at his house and prayed for kids in philly...it was a really cool time....pray that our numbers continue to grow and that God just leads us to right people....men of the peace.

craziness
so yesterday i spent the day in the city...so i was hanging around the school that we want to go to first...william penn high school on broad st....well, the school is huge..so i was walking around it and praying.  this isn't odd because its on a main road and so people are walking there all the time.  you know...so when i was coming around to the front...there were alot of students going into the school and there was this older gentleman yelling at them.  i don't know what was going on but he was yelling things about Jesus Christ and stuff like that.  it was really bizarre...please pray for the hearts of kids...that God will change their hearts...will soften their hearts...that they will be receptive to the Gospel and that these odd perceptions that they may have about Jesus won't get in the way...that those perceptions will be broke down as leaders walk beside them telling them each day..the good news of Jesus Christ.

thanks again.
please be praying for more support and committee and leaders....pray that we continue to meet with the men of the peace...as well as the peace and prosperity of the city(jer.29...God wants us to pray for that wherever we live.)

thanks again...grace and peace in abundance to you.
mike



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