Monday, March 3, 2008

Saturday

Midnight - 1 AM Troy Strahan
2-3 AM Joshua Vance
3-4 AM Aaron Holmes
4-5 AM
5-6 AM
6-7 AM Donnie Miller
7-8 AM Brian Roberts
8-9 AM Melissa Billings
9-10 AM Philip Wheeler
10-11 AM
11 AM - Noon Caleb Wood
Noon - 1 PM
1-2 PM
2-3 PM
3-4 PM
4-5 PM
5-6 PM
6-7 PM Debbie Sidusky
7-8 PM
8-9 PM Andy McGee
9-10 PM Sarah Holmes
10-11 PM Michael Palmer
11 PM - Midnight Andrew Phelps

1 comment:

Donnie Miller said...

Dear Heavenly Father,
You are a very good God. You are worthy of everything good we could say about you and so much more! Take my praise. Please know that you're the Ultimate. Please be that in my life, you're already that in our universe. Thank you for your love and mercy, for your righteousness and holiness. You deserve our entire life. It's the best we can do when you've given us everything of you. Thank you for being an others-centered God. Thank you for the ultimate gift, the life of your Son.

What a great night last night! We've never had that many people show up for a church event, it was amazing. I pray specifically for the families that received an invitation that aren't a part of a church. I realize not all of them will respond to the invitation but there are some whose hearts you're working on. May they please respond to the invitation.
And all of the other people who have been invited by TF people; keep their hearts tender. May they accept the invitation.

We have such a HUGE responsibility on Sunday. For a lot of first-time guests, it will be the one shot they give church for awhile. Help us to be effective. Help us to be communicating your love, grace, acceptance and mercy in everything we do.
Bless the children's ministry volunteers who will be working their tails off. Thank you for their service. I pray for the new kids, that they would sense your presence. That it would be such a good experience that they would want to come back. I ask that our regular TF kids would experience the power of the Resurrection. Help Pastor Andy as he teaches.
Be with our greeters, may they communicate your love.
Communicate through the band as they play. May their please be a sense of worship. Help them as they play Come Alive, may that please be a time of response for the congregation.
Help Travis as he gives his testimony. There's no better 'proof' of the Resurrection than a changed life.
There was such a huge crowd on Friday night, surely there are some people among that crowd that don't yet know You who can soon come into a relatioship with You. That's why we do what we do.

Lord, I'm sure there are some people in the congregation who are feeling pretty close to how the disciples felt on this Saturday 2,000 years ago; completely hopless. I don't know who they are and I'm not sure what all to pray for them. But I know the tomb is empty. I know that even the most hopeless circumstances are not outside of your miraculous power. Dear God, I pray that you could please grant them your Resurrection hope. As Christ-followers, we've got the ultimate hope. The Resurrection is our ultimate hope in this world. Thank you for Jesus' death. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your grace and mercy. Thank you for your power. Thank you for the Resurrection. Wow.

Thank you for what happened last night with Love Wins. What a powerful evening! You've helped Erin and Jaymie to make such great strides in their relationship with the people there, the security, the bar tenders, the dancers and now even some patrons. Wow, we'd never expected that at all. That couple that wants me to do their wedding, give me wisdom in that situation. It really is right, isn't it, to stick to my policy of requiring counseling? It's the best thing for them. Love isn't just granfatherly condoning everything. Love is looking out for what's best for the other person. I pray for the people that will read "The Shack." The fact that there were people there saying they'd wanted to read that book shows that it wasn't a coincidence that we bought copies of the book. You placed this on Erin's heart for a reason. Your prevenient grace is working in the hearts of people there and your love is prompting Erin to do what she's been doing. Thank you that all their hard work and consisent presence has opened up these opportunities for conversations. Amazing.
I know you will bring fruit out of this. I don't exactly know what the response will be, I'm learning how you work in so many different ways. I don't know if people will visit Erin's blog, who all will read the books or what the responses will be. But you're moving, that's completely obvious. Please keep doing it. Please keep working in the hearts of everyone touched through this ministry.
I thank you for all the other people who work so hard to buy stuff and prepare the bags.

Good Friday stands as the ultimate picture of how far You'll go to reveal to us your love. The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin and the seriousness of Your love for us. There was NOTHING that would stop you from reaching us in our sin, not even pain and death. Thank you for that love.
I pray that our church would go after people with that same relentless love. We are not going to stop with anything! Wherever you call us to go next, we'll do it. Whoever you ask us to share your love, we'll build those relationships. Your guidance has proved to be faithful and good over these 2 1/2 years of our church and I know that you'll continue to guide us.

I pray that EVERYONE in our church on Sunday, new and 'old' would please experience the power of the Resurrection on Sunday. For some it will be the first time for others it will be another time but still timely and powerful. Speak to those needing hope. I pray that everything that happens on Sunday will help people hear the Echoes of the Resurrection. Please help me as I communicate. I am clueless without your guidance. Take the work I've done, as I've tried to hear and follow your guidance and may your Spirit speak directly into hearts. Speak in the way that only you can.

Christ is Risen!