Friend Day

We had a successful "Friend Day" today! We ended up having 3 first-time guests with us for service and for our fellowship dinner following service. The service was touched by God and hearts left changed by His presence.

We added three part harmony to our worship service today! It was great! We now have a soprano, Sheree Robertson, and an alto, Kendra Younkin. I sang tenor and Karla sang along for punch! It sounds so much fuller. We borrowed two microphones this weekend, so we will have to get our own to keep the praise group going.

Sis. Jennifer Crawford's sister, Carolyn, joined us for today along with Darin Cash and his fiancé, Carla Davis. We enjoyed visiting with all of them.

Darin and Carla were my guests! I was so glad to see Darin and meet Carla (he was a member of our youth group who moved from Wichita Falls about 10 years ago!). They are both graduating with a doctorate in Music from the University of Texas this coming Spring. She is a concert pianist and he is a professional trombonist. They are getting married in December.

We had three other commitments to be in service that backed out at the last minute, but we were so happy to have the three that were there! Karla sang "The Alabaster Box" and I preached about "The Friend" - the one that can reach to the soul, where no one else can. A definition I read explained what a friend is: "One who comes in when the whole world has gone out." When the whole world forgets about you - a friend will be there. This Friend, Jesus, will only come in when the whole world has gone out! We had a good prayer time at the end.

We left about 2:00pm, after a great time of fellowship, laughing and EATING! That is Pentecost, right? Breaking bread from house to house!

We are taking a church van over to the Austin Church with our people on Friday night for REVIVAL with Evangelist Mike Easter. We enjoyed his ministry tonight and will probably go to service (just our family) this Thursday, also. He and his family are pictured here.

Our first outreach day is this Saturday at 10am. We plan to start subdivision by subdivision getting the word out about our church. We also have had a donation given to put an advertisement on the church page for several months in the weekly newspaper just for Pflugerville - "The Pflugerville Pflag"!

Cameron and Chad went on a youth trip Friday night to a Youth Rally in the section. They had a great time getting to know the youth from Austin. Their youth leader, Seth Simmons, is the sectional youth leader also and was in charge of the service. I think Cameron actually enjoyed having Chad on the trip since he didn't really know anyone very well. That would have been a different story in Wichita Falls!

Off to another week....