Quite a few things have happened and other events are coming,
so I will just give you a random overview:
- We have spent several days helping a family in our church whose home was flooded on Tuesday morning. The lower portion of their sheetrock walls had to be cut out and the insulation removed. The carpet was ripped out, the doors and trim had to be removed, much of their furniture and mattresses had to be trashed. They lost so much in this flash flood that was not in a flood plain!? Our church reached out to help them (probably 50-75 members over the last few days) and helped their neighbors in the process. Tonight we took up a great offering to help them be able to rebound from this. While we took this offering for the flood situation tonight, we sang a new song, "Rain, Lord!" I thought that was quite ironic! Of course our song was about the Spirt raining down, not literal water! Please be in prayer for the Pursel family as they struggle to recover.
- Our Spanish service had 10 brand new visitors and the Lord moved in a mighty way.
- We started a new nursing home service today and will be baptizing a resident tomorrow afternoon. We will also be baptizing a gentleman on Thursday morning.
- Our Pantry of Life is back and functioning, in fact, we helped three families with food on Friday.
- We had the largest crowd in service this morning since we have been here. We are looking forward to September when everyone is back in town!
- We had a lady delivered from cigarettes in a our prayer line a couple of Sunday's ago. She has not had one since and says that she has not even wanted one!
- Our Back-to-School service was tonight. Bro. Joseph spoke to the children, Bro. Trevon spoke to the youth and Bro. Curtis spoke to the college students. School starts tomorrow in Wichita Falls, so we prayed for all of the students and teachers to close the service. I believe that this year is going to be a great one for each of them.
- This coming Sunday, August 31st, is Fifth Sunday Fellowship. We will have our 11am service only. No Sunday School or Evening Worship. It will be followed by dinner in the Fellowship Hall.
- Bro. Mark Green will be speaking on Wednesday, September 3rd. He will be introducing the Junior Bible Quizzing program to our church. We are beginning this exciting program this fall.
- Our installation services will be the weekend of November 14th. Friday night, the 14th, Bro. David Bernard will be speaking and a reception will be held for everyone who attends. Sunday our morning speaker will be Nathan Hurst and the evening speaker will be Wendell Elms. We would love to have any of you be a part of this weekend.
Have a great week!
4 comments:
It sounds like you hit home running.
Hope the boys adjust well and God keeps blessing Wichita Falls church family and your family. Love yall
Bro. Holley I wanted to add that even though our back pack ministry could not be big this year We have helped 6 children with complete school supplies for the school year. Some of the saints in the church had given me several items after Bro.Todd spoke about outreach in Sunday school. And several area business gave me vouchers to help children. I talked with the principal at our school and let her know that if there was a need to let us know. She gave me 6 names this last week and we were able to help every child. There are 6 families out there that have been given info about Life Tab and those back packs have been prayed over.
A seed has been planted!!!!
Sounds like a church on the move!!! Keep us informed.
Sis. Julie,
Thanks so much for the update and all of your hard work! We really do want to do more for this need next year.
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