One receives the Holy Ghost!

We are SO EXCITED to have a 12-year-old girl receive the Holy Ghost today! I could tell through church that God was dealing with her and when the call to come was given, Sis. McClain asked her if she would like to come and pray. She said yes and she began to weep when I put my hands on her head. Within in a couple minutes, she was speaking in tongues! She came with her aunt. This young lady's two younger brothers came also and were a part of our new Sunday School class!

We had 36 today! That is one more than our normal Sunday record (excluding Easter). We also are minus the family of 5 from Bro. Bernard's church who have gone back to the mother church now! So, there is progress.

Our ensemble sang "Goin' Up Yonder"(the old song) and did awesome! The Spirit was really moving in our midst today. I believe that the Friday night prayer intensified the response of the church.

Speaking of that, our Section came on Friday night for a Prayer Service and on Saturday morning for outreach.

Sis. Esther Hunt, our section's prayer coordinator.

Sis. Flo Shaw, the South Texas District prayer coordinator.

Binding together in prayer.

It was great to have Trevon Norman (seen on the left here) and Cosme Ojeda (not pictured) with us this weekend from Wichita Falls. They joined in with us for prayer and outreach.

Pastor Dwayne Shaw, New Life Temple - East Austin

Bro. Shaw finished out the night with his comments. He felt a prophetic word that this church would be a mighty revival center and felt so impressed that things greater than we can even imagine are on the horizon. We are believing...and it is happening!

On Saturday, we were able to distribute around 700 doorhangers to houses in the neighborhoods near our new location. We are planning to send postcards to these same houses in a couple weeks using a mailing service here that is Apostolic-owned and then going back to these houses a few weeks after that and knocking on their doors to invite them. Maybe it will help "soften" the ground a little or give us some name recognition when they open their doors. It was great to have our presbyter, Pastor Charles Stephens, to help us put these doorhangers out!

Following the outreach on Saturday, we took Trevon and Cosme downtown to see the bats fly at dusk. Our boys enjoyed so much having the guys here in town. They laughed a lot!

As we were waiting, boats started coming to watch the bat flight. One of them in particular caught our eye and ear...they were playing live country music on a raft of sorts! It was pretty neat.

There's more to tell, but I will keep it for another post.....