XTreme week!!

We had a photo session of our family and took over 400 pictures!!!  We are needing pictures for several purposes and we were pleased with what a great job Kassie Dutton and Priscilla Venegas did with them.  They are wanting to get into photography and they really have an eye for the settings!  Above is a sample.

I have lots of stuff to share...

Last Sunday was an incredible weekend.  The Lord is calling us to a place of stretching... because the miracle is in the stretch.  It always seems that before our miracles take place, we must stretch as far as we can go and then He steps in and does His sovereign work!  We had a blowout Sunday night with two refilled with His spirit (after being away for over a year), but I still felt to preach.  I told the staff before going into service that they could shout if they wanted to, but I had a message that I was going to preach.  So, I did.  God did a work and it has continued to work on me all week.

Our pantry was restarted this week with Barbara Loveland (and her family) as the director.  God has opened several doors just this week to minister around Wichita Falls through this ministry.  One was a family who just had a baby and living in a motel.  Another was an elder couple who have lost everything due to physical sickness, which you can read about here.  We are being salt and light to our world and it WILL make a difference. 

Monday morning was a meeting with Linda Howell, our Sunday School director and Joseph Ouellette, our Children's Minister to plan for our upcoming "XTreme Kids" on Sunday mornings.  We will be suspending their regular Sunday classes and having "XTreme" through January 2009.  Monday afternoon was meeting with our Youth Minister, Trevon Norman, about upcoming youth activities and his vision.  I am excited about both of these departments and the plans we have for the future!

Tuesday we had a three hour lunch with a neighboring pastor, Kendall and Dawn Graves, catching up on all kinds of things and had dinner with, Brian and Gloria Pursel, a minister in our church.

Wednesday was preparing for the Word for Life and then getting ready for our Spanish service on Saturday.  

Thursday, our church hosted a community funeral for Pamela Brown Walker.  Our church lovingly cared for every detail and their concern was warmly received by all who attended.  Our building was filled with people from the community.  

My family and I left before the funeral was over to head to Pflugerville.  We had to go catch up on some things and meet with the new Pastor in Pflugerville, Chad and Cassie Harper!  We are so excited about them taking over the work there!  Wonderful things are already happening and we can't wait for them to double in size again!  It won't be long.

We had lunch with Rodney and Stacy Shaw and family on Friday and Cameron got to spend some time with Lindsey!  

Today, we got the house ready for an Open House on Sunday and then headed back to Wichita Falls to arrive just in time for, Tabernaculo de Vida, tonight!  We had an awesome crowd again and God moved in a mighty way.

Tomorrow is a full day and I cannot wait to see what God is going to do!  I pray that you have a blessed Sunday and see miracles take place.