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Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church - New Freeport, PA

One of the unique opportunities we have as evangelists is to be guests at many different types of churches. Katie and I have been in A/G, Presbyterian, Methodist, Free Methodist, Baptist, and non-denominational churches just to name a few. Our view is simple, if a church preaches Jesus is the only way for the salvation of mankind, then I'm all for it! Obviously, I'm sure there are extreme exceptions, however, we have found that guideline to stand true over our travels.

We were blessed to be with the people of Pleasant Hill UMC this past weekend. This is actually the church where this happened to us last year. You may want to visit my post from last year, it's fairly humorous.

Needless to say, I kept my eye open for that flea infested bag of feathers!

Two20 Youth - Mt. Morris, PA

We had a tremendous service last night with the students of Two20 youth. Several hands were raised as we made an appeal to follow Christ.

There will be 9 students from this group plus Pastor Carl & Andrea Redding along with my wife and me that will be heading to Managua, Nicaragua to work with Eric Ferguson of Metanoia Missions Intl. at the end of July. I'm looking forward to power packed trip!

Calvary A/G - Connellsville, PA

The best word I can come up with to describe the ministry we had at Calvary A/G in Connellsville, PA was refreshing. I sensed the church needed to just "come up for air." There was such a sweet Spirit of God there around the altars.

Praise God for always knowing what and when we need!

GospelFest '08 - Mt. Morris, PA

We had a great time singing and hosting GospelFest '08, a first ever outdoor Christian concert to happen in Mount Morris, PA this past Saturday night. The weather scared off some people, but we still had a good crowd out and we were able to raise a good amount of money for our Nicaragua missions team.

There were several local musicians that graciously performed as well as gospel recording artist, Jonathan White. Pastors, let me tell you something, if your church likes gospel music at all, then you need to have Jonathan come to your church. Wow, what an incredible voice this guy has, and his testimony and ministry are definitely anointed of the Lord. He probably has the best live vocals I have ever heard.

Thank you to all the businesses (about 30 local businesses...I think that's pretty cool!) that chipped in to make the night a huge success. And thank you to all the volunteers that came early and stayed late. I'm proud of all of you!

Christian Assembly - Bentleyville, PA

Katie and I enjoyed our time ministering at Christian Assemblyin Bentleyville, PA over the last few weeks. Here's a few things I thought were worth mentioning...

Last week I prayed for a young boy who has been having some medical problems that were causing him to basically lose his focus. In previous years he was an exceptional baseball player, but now he virtually has gone hitless over the entire season this year due to his medical issues. Needless to say this week he went 3 for 6 and had the biggest smile on his face!!!

Sunday morning I spoke on the love of a heavenly Father. I started my message with how God freely wants to give us His undivided love. So I gave out a free pair of tickets to a Washington Wildthings game to illustrate how God just wants to freely bless us. I randomly walked up to a man during my introduction and handed him the free tickets. Come to find out, the day before, he had just taken a tour of the Wildthings' stadium and mentioned to his friend how he wished he had a pair of tickets to the Sunday evening game because we weren't having church because of Father's Day. Needless to say, the man and his father went to the game.... I think that's cool.

Last, but certainly not least, 6 people gave their lives to Christ Sunday morning!!!

Recent Travels...

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!

New Life Center - Ford City, PA

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!!!

Christian A/G - Pittsfield, MA

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.

Calvary Temple International - Wayne, NJ

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!

New Stanton A/G - New Stanton, PA

We enjoyed our time with Pastor Don & Robin Immel at New Stanton A/G's services over the weekend.

I've wanted to write a sermon about how to share your faith to your unsaved family member for a long time now. I felt God lead me to do that last week, and on the Sunday AM service I preached a message entitled "Family Share Plan."

My texts for that message were 1 Peter 3:1-2, 7 & Proverbs 22:6. The three communication plans I laid out were: We can share our faith with our loved ones through... 1. Instruction, 2. Compassion, 3. Intercession.

Possibly, sometime over the next week I'll attempt to post the audio to that message.