Friday, January 30, 2009

CHRISTMAS 2008

We wanted to share with you the pictures of the wonderful time that we had this past Christmas at the Park Forest Library/Faith Church Mini Church...We started off with our shared meal which consisted of delicious appetizers and desserts...after the feast...we had our 10th annual "photo op" with photographer George of the Park Forest Library....we exchanged Christmas tree ornaments...and then had our Christmas Play...the actress this year who played the beloved baby Jesus was Lois' new Granddaughter....Juliana...What a way to set the tone for the Christmas season...this years play was based on the new book by Rick Warren called the "Purpose of Christmas". To read a review of this great book click the link below:

http://www.rca.org/thepurposeofChristmas

Hope all those of you out in BloggyLand had a most blessed Christmas remembering the real reason for the season: JESUS

Matthew 1:23"The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel"—which means, "God with us."

Monday, January 26, 2009

Partner in Prayer Coordinator

We are so excited to announce our first official volunteer position is filled...that of Partner in Prayer Coordinator!!! We are bursting with joy to introduce her to all of you that are connected to this ministry....her name....Mrs. Nancy Dykstra....this lovely women has agreed to sign up new folks to be Partners in Prayer.....to send out re-commitment forms when they expire....and to do the mailings to all our current Partners in Prayer which includes quarterly update letters as to what exactly is going on with us and this wonderful outreach ministry to the medical patient WORLDWIDE ...Welcome aboard Nancy....and fasten your bonnet this ministry thing is a wild ride....WooHoo!!
May the Lord continually pour out to you, Nancy....Heaven's blessings as well as human joys...Psalm 128:5

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Urban Praise!! LIVE

Today we were scheduled guests to speak about James 5:16 Ministries at Moody Radio for the Roy Patterson show called Urban Praise!!! What an exciting day...we wrote notes for this adventure and THANK THE LORD we did...we were told that we would be doing a taping that would be broadcast on FM 90.1 on Mr. Patterson's show either this Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon...we arrived in the studio to find out...we were going to do this interview.....LIVE!!!! on his 3 o'clock AM1110 show!!
The whites of Lois' glassy eyes turned red and the rise in my blood pressure almost sent me off the stool I was perched on in the studio...we surely thought they were joking until the studio got quiet and the show engineer, Eric Townsend started reading the weather...It all turned out fine and we rose to the occasion...Mr. Patterson gave away two of our Tenacious PrayerBooks to listeners in his radio audience...What a fun day...and we even got an invitation to return...our prayer always is that hearts be encouraged and souls be won for the Lord....what more could we ask???