Old Friends.
Tonight was the missions service. Great Worship. Great Message. Great altar call. God give me missionaries was my prayer as my boys responded. Here are a few of our IL missionaries who are home on furlough and in the area for Family Camp.
Then we ended the night out on the patio by the fountain with our former senior pastor Kent & Judy Anderson. We were their youth pastors in Milford, NE when we were right out of grad school. They are great friends, taught us a lot, and we were blessed to work with them.
Thanks Kent & Judy for taking a chance on a couple of green, wet behind the ears, young people. We are blessed by your lives.
Be Refreshed!
Proverb of the Day: Proverbs 30:5-6 5 Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. 6 Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
Scripture of the Day: Acts 13:2-3 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." 3 So after they had fasted and prayed, they placed their hands on them and sent them off.
Quote of the Day: "I have seen, at different times, the smoke of a thousand villages - villages whose people are without Christ, without God, and without hope in the world." William Moffat
"And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." Nate Saint (He was later martyred)
"Today Christians spend more money on dog food than missions." Leonard Ravenhill
"'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world." WIlliam Booth