Community Day 2009!

What an awesome time we had this past Sunday! We planned a Community Day and publicized it only by word of mouth with postcard flyers. We had 4000 of those flyers, canvassing neighborhoods and apartments all over Wichita Falls.  Ken and Julie Cook have been with us for two weeks,  teaching and preaching about the missing souls in our city.

Our sanctuary was filled with new souls.  We had at least 403 in service, including 67 in our Kid's Xtreme Service!  We had 301 the Sunday before, so it was a huge increase.  Our vans were filled to capacity and many saints used their cars for transportation.   The picture above is of the altar service, where everyone repented.  This was followed by 13 souls being baptized in Jesus Name and at least 4 being filled with the Spirit.  (I just heard of another one this morning!)  It was incredible!

The baptismal tank was busy!  We ran out of robes and had to reuse them!

Outside, we had the inflatable bounce houses/slides, burgers and giveaways.

God is really opening doors into the lives of these souls.  Words cannot describe the awesome experience!  More of these times are on the way.  The harvest is NOW!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to my beautiful bride of 20 years! I have finally been able to sit down, find a picture on the laptop and put a post up. We have been packing our things all day and we don't have internet service, but....somewhere around us does! ;)

Karla, this year been a little different, but what a wonderful ride it has been! My wish is for an even greater year for you this coming year. You are a wonderful and fun-loving person who loves to be around others! In fact, our time with the Shaw's and Frazier's tonight was just what you love! I love you for who you are and am so proud of all you do. Your mother and daddy would be even more proud of who you are today. I love you!

We enjoyed a great dinner at The Cheesecake Factory and it even included cheesecake! Now we are all full and ready to get some needed rest. More packing tomorrow...

Exciting times!

This morning we had 1 filled the Holy Spirit and 3 baptized in Jesus Name!  

God is continuing to give us a harvest.  We now have 20+ new disciples of Christ that are being cared for.  It is quite a responsibility to nurture these new ones into a complete relationship with Jesus, but we are enjoying it!  Ken and Julie Cook, our evangelists, have been so awesome and have become a part of the body here.  We are so excited to see the church on the move.  Our crowd in the sanctuary was awesome this morning, back to what it was with the children in there with us.  Our kid's church, Xtreme, was full, too. They had a whole van load of new children!  Spanish church last night was packed out!  My heart is overwhelmed to think of what God is doing in our midst.  

Next Sunday is Community Day and we are looking forward to a large number of visitors.  We passed out over 1800 flyers yesterday and will give over 2000 more this coming week.  A waiter in Red Lobster came up to us today and told us that he will be coming next week with his whole family.  He still has our card that we gave him over two months ago!  God is leading the hungry into our paths... all of us.  Expect it, Life Tabernacle!

We leave after service tonight to go pack our things in Pflugerville.  The movers will pick up the boxes and furniture on Wednesday and we will finally have our things on Thursday.  We have almost forgotten what we have!  We will get back with you soon.

Okay...

I have to at least say something here!

Life Tabernacle is in the midst of MarchImpact with 24 hour prayer and fasting each week. This past week was our technology fast. This meant that we put aside all technology (non-work related), so I did not read or post blogs. It has been quite an eye-opener and has made an impact. This week we are fasting food for a day, next week we are fasting negative talk and the last week of March we will be doing the Daniel's Fast - no meat, sweets, etc. We are desparate to move beyond normal.

We started a time of training and harvest with Evangelists Ken and Julie Cook this weekend. They will be with us for three weeks. Yesterday we had two filled with the Holy Spirit and two baptized. Tonight during Choir practice, we had two more baptized! This is the just the beginning of what God is going to do. We have pictures that maybe we will find time to post soon. We will be having Community Day March 22nd and a bilingual service on March 29th. God spoke to us three times last weekend and again yesterday morning. Yesterday He told us that it was happening. Paraphrased— "Get ready for our backsliders to come home, our coworkers to begin to respond, those we have been working with for so long - they will make a move!" UNREAL! UNCOMMON! But happening. He is the God of this city! "Greater things have yet to come, Greater things are yet to be done in this city!" That song we now sing sums up exactly where we are. "He's the light in the darkness, the hope for the hopeless..." We enjoyed Keith, Carla, Mallory, and Taylor being with us last night at church, spending the night and having some fellowship time today.

Our house is in contract in Pflugerville!!!! YEAH! This means that must move our stuff out during the "harvest time," but God is going to help us. Our new home is getting floors laid this week and our kitchen wood floors are being redone at the beginning of next week. God worked a miracle to get our baby grand piano here! Sam Gibbs Music, here in Wichita Falls, sold pianos to someone in Austin and this meant that they had to deliver them. Then on the way back they stopped and brought our piano home! Thanks, Bro. James and God. He knows just what we need. The last two weeks have been non-stop painting and finishing at the house. Thanks to my Dad, Rita Frazier, Felicia Frazier and my wife for kickin' in and helping get things accomplished! The office staff at the church is incredible - Kenny Frazier and Priscilla Venegas are invaluable.

Right now, I am going to get some sleep....