The Touch of Prayer

A few weeks ago, we my wife and I had a chance to go visit friends in DC. One of the sites we saw was the National Cathidreal. Found there, is the resting place of many famous people. One of those is Hellen Keller. She was an amazing woman. from nine months on to her death, she couild not see, or hear. How can a person in that condition know or learn about the world she lives in.

With the help of a dedicated teacher, she learned through the means of touch. With touch, her world became large.

Our lives are much the same, when we say yes to God, we enter into a world that is dark and silent. How we discover this world is through the touch of prayer. Wow, think of it, prayer is the way we know about God.

Do you want to know Him, talk to him, today!

Have a great day!

David

Resurrection Day

Churches all over this world taked about new life . . .Wow . . Don't you love it! Well, for the first time, our church staff defined what would be an Easter Win. There was a lot of discussion that went around the table, but they landed on three wins for the day.

1) To run out of coffee! The reason for this is on the back of our visitor cards, we gave our first time visitors a free flavored drink. So one way of knowing if visitors came, the coffee was gone . . .will the results are; we ran out of our free coffee, we ran out of water, and we started off with 4 gallons of products for coffee's and we only had 1/4 of a gallon left . . .not bad!

2) 10 or more visitor cards. Well, we came close, we had seven. Which represented about 29 first time guest. Now it's up to us to do a good followup with these fine folks.

3) 10 Stories of transformation. This is a hard one to evaluate . . and it might take a few weeks to shake out. But I can tell you of a couple I know of. One new couple came to church because their parents evented them. It had been about one year since they had visited the church . . .one family member had lost a close friend, but after the service, felt like like her hope had returned. Another individual made some major decisions to remove themselves from some addictive behaviors. One family that had been with us off and on over the last several years, made a new commenting to attendees more often.

I'm sure there is more but all in all, God was good to us at the Chapel and we had about 100 more people then what we normally have which is a jump of about 30%.

All thanks goes to God

David

A wild Email

Many of you know that our church "The Chapel" here in Troutdale Oregon merged with another local church. It's been a wonderful experience and a God thing. In the process of this merger, we made great effort in communicating this fact. We talked to our congrations about it, we got the paper involved and we placed it on our web site.

Well, I got an interesting email today, it was from a pastor back in Mississippi who had found our web site, read the article and had some questions about our merger because he was thinking about the same thing. So he emailed me.

I was was honored to talks to this man, (over the internet) about our merger. About half way through, I came to a realization, God is so Good. Well sure He his, David, didn't you know that . . .Well yes, but having His goodness in 3D is a good thing.

God is good . . .All the time and with this merger, he is good.

Thanks God for being so good.

David

Jet Lag

It's been a long time since I have been in a different time zone for any length of time. Adjusting to East Coast time wasn't bad . .Since I'm a early morning person . . Waking up early wasn't bad . .But coming back to the west coast . . .It was a killer being dead tired at 7pm at night.

I don't like being out of sink. The tempo, the rhythm, the schedule is all out of wack and I don't like it.

It would be nice to feel that in the spirit as well. Oh but many times it's there . .We just ignore it, or come up with excuses.