Happy Mother's Day to all you moms and wives out there!
I must say that I am blessed with an incredible wife who is an unbelievably awesome mother to our kids. Thank you Katie for putting up with me and taking such great care of Emily and Josiah. I love you baby!
Praise God for a wonderful, hot, funny, caring, loving, hot, nurturing, protecting, hot, wife! I definitely married up!
He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the LORD. - Proverbs 18:22
Our internet has been down for a few weeks..., mostly because of our provider's (Windstream) lack of customer service...
Okay, I'm done venting now...especially since we just got them to refund us for the service we were paying for but were not receiving!!!
Anyway, our travels have been extremely busy lately and extremely rewarding. We mixed in traveling with the Hubbard's and on our own through out the last few weeks. We started off holding revival services at First A/G in Parkersburg, WV, then we were off to Carlisle, PA to do worship for a women's conference. We stopped at First A/G in Harrisburg, PA before being home for a few days. Most recently we held revival services at Evangel Church in Scotch Plains, NJ before coming back towards home to be at East End A/G in Pittsburgh, PA. We finished it all off by speaking to the youth at my home church, Gospel Tabernacle A/G, here in good ol' Mt. Morris, PA just last night.
In the last few weeks we've seen nearly 100 people decide to follow Christ, at least a dozen definite healings, and have seen the spiritual atmosphere of churches supercharged with the resurrection power of Jesus! All in all, we've been having a blast!
I always find it refreshing being with people my age in ministry. This past weekend we were at New Life Center in Ford City, PA with Pastor Craig and Bethany Riggle. God is using this couple in a mighty way to impact lives for the Kingdom of God.
I believe is God is raising up a new generation of hungry young believers desiring the authentic truth of Jesus Christ. And according to a recent mass email from the superintendent of the Assemblies of God, George Wood, about 1.1 million of our 2.8 million adherents of the Assemblies of God are under the age of 25!!! Now that's encouraging to me.
So if you're an old timer wondering if the modern day Pentecostal movement will continue into the future, don't be worried! God is up to something again!!!
I'm a little late in posting this, but oh well, here goes. I had a blast ministering with Greg & Robyn Hubbard at Christian A/G in Pittsfield, MA. The picturesque town of Pittsfield is nestled in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. The quaint town was seemingly drawn straight out of the images of Norman Rockwell.
We saw many saved, baptized in the Holy Spirit, and even met a man healed of diabetes from when Greg & Robyn were there earlier in 2007.
I found it appropriate that I get a head start on the next several days. I'll be flying to Pittsfield, MA on Saturday to be with Greg & Robyn Hubbard as we will minister at Christian Assembly.
Anyway, as some of you may know, Greg is from New England which makes him a huge Patriots fan. In light of that I'm sure I'll catch a lot of flack about how incredible the Patriot's franchise is...blah, blah, blah. But I do remember them losing to a certain New York Giants team in the Super Bowl, so on our last trip together near New York we made a pit stop near the champs stadium for a brief time of mourning for my beloved New Englander.
I'm going to be sure to pack a little extra black & gold on this trip just to let them know who the best sports franchise is in history...THE STEELERS!!! (Did I mention the Patsies only have 3 rings while the Stillers have 5!?!)
Okay, first don't freak out from the title thinking Katie is pregnant with triplets and we're moving to Africa as missionaries! (Although, we will be going to Nicaragua in July to minister with Eric Ferguson of Metanoia Missions).
As I've said in previous posts, this is our year of change. Change in the way that we want to see exponential growth and increase in our marriage, family, ministry, and quality of life in general.
In the last several days we have moved into a new apartment. As some of you may know, we have rented out the lower half of a huge house in Mt. Morris for the last year. The lower apartment was beautiful and spacious and completely remodeled before we moved in. It was great with 3 bedrooms and a huge great room with an awesome fireplace that has served as the back drop for our past 2 Christmas photos. However..., it was the bottom floor of the house (a.k.a. - the basement).
With that said, the upstairs apartment is even better with an extra bathroom off of the master bedroom and it is attached to my OFFICE!!! 
That's right, I now have an office that in its own right a huge blessing. It's amazing how much more work I can get down in my own separate, office as opposed to working out of a make-shift office in my dining room.
God is blessing us more and more and more! This is the year of change!!! I love livin' in the favor of the Lord!!!
Well, it's been a few weeks and my inbox has been flooded with people wanting to know why my blog has been on a hiatus! Okay, not really, but I'm going to give you a brief run down of what's happened in the last few weeks...
We had a blast teaming with Greg & Robyn Hubbard for the first time as we ministered at Calvary Temple in Wayne, NJ. It was especially fun for us because the pastor, Dr. Tom Keinath, is one of our former professors from CBC.
The weekend end started off in a fury as we did five services in a 24 hour period which included one Spanish service. Altogether we held eight services from Saturday to Wednesday night and saw people dedicate their lives to the Lord in all but one of the services. We saw several people baptized in the Holy Spirit on Sunday night as well. We were even blessed to attend a Pastor's Prayer Meeting on Wednesday morning at Times Square Church in New York City.
What an incredible blessing it was to not only be at a great church, but team up with a phenomenal couple like the Hubbard's!
We have been blessed in our times of ministry at churches, camps, retreats, and outreaches. We've been in Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and of course Pennsylvania..., oh and not to mention Nicaragua. And these last few years of traveling have been incredibly formative for our character, style of ministry, and walk with God.
This year we are expanding again as we will be periodically teaming up with Greg & Robin Hubbard. Wow..., we're so overwhelmed with the opportunity to partner with such an anointed couple that have been blazing the evangelistic trail for a number of years now.
This opportunity is already taking us through doors that probably would have never been open to us at this stage in our ministry. We'll be with them this upcoming week at Calvary Temple in Wayne, NJ. Our role will be to facilitate times of worship around the altar that will create an atmosphere for the miraculous, sing a few songs to help prepare hearts for the message, and just be supporters of Greg & Robin in whatever way we can.
There's one change..., stay tuned for more!!!
Change is always an uncomfortable feeling to me. Growing up in a small rural community, it was implanted into me that slow, steady, hard work always pays off. Which that is definitely true, however, often that mindset creates a lack of room for positive change.
Katie and I named this year the year of change for us. Change in the way that we want to see exponential growth and increase in our marriage, family, ministry, and quality of life in general. Now that doesn't mean I'm going to become a polygamist or have sextuplet babies or shift in ministry focus or become a millionaire (although that last one might be pretty nice, Lord:-). What it does mean is that we are striving to become more like Christ in our lives, so we can advance in His perfect will.
In order for me to grow, I must change. The natural growth process in our bodies is change. Who can forget those pubescent teenage years? Change was absolutely uncomfortable, but absolutely necessary for us to become the man/woman God has created to be (now everybody run to a mirror to see if a pimple took up residence on your mug!)
Over my next few posts I'll write how our year is already reflecting what God placed in our hearts.
