Ministry Updates: Some food for thought...and comment:

Ministry Updates: Some food for thought...and comment:

Some food for thought...and comment:

I read the following from Oswald Chambers. Insightful. Let me hear your comments. When you were under the fig tree, I saw you —John 1:48

Worshiping in Everyday Occasions. We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within us— it simply reveals what we are made of already. Do you find yourself saying, “If God calls me to battle, of course I will rise to the occasion”? Yet you won’t rise to the occasion unless you have done so on God’s training ground. If you are not doing the task that is closest to you now, which God has engineered into your life, when the crisis comes, instead of being fit for battle, you will be revealed as being unfit. Crises always reveal a person’s true character.

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness. The time will come, as Nathanael experienced in this passage, that a private “fig-tree” life will no longer be possible. Everything will be out in the open, and you will find yourself to be of no value there if you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions in your own home. If your worship is right in your private relationship with God, then when He sets you free, you will be ready. It is in the unseen life, which only God saw, that you have become perfectly fit. And when the strain of the crisis comes, you can be relied upon by God.

Are you saying, “But I can’t be expected to live a sanctified life in my present circumstances; I have no time for prayer or Bible study right now; besides, my opportunity for battle hasn’t come yet, but when it does, of course I will be ready”? No, you will not. If you have not been worshiping in everyday occasions, when you get involved in God’s work, you will not only be useless yourself but also a hindrance to those around you.

God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

ABOUT 60 OR 70 OF THE FOLKS FROM FBBC WENT TO THE BALL GAME MONDAY NIGHT. Here is Johnny Hugging the New Britain Rock Cats Mascot!

OH YEAH MAN!

Johnny is such a great sport!

PLEASE PRAY FOR 4 ORPHANED CHILDREN

Please pray for Tom, age 12, Simon, age 10, Titus and Tabitha, age 7. About 5 or so years ago their Dad died of a heart attack. Yesterday morning Simon found his Mom dead. She had died the night before of a heart attack. This is such a heart breaking situation. These are four GREAT kids.

Please pray that I would have the wisdom of the Lord to be able to help these kids. Also, please pray for the funeral service this Saturday at 4:00 PM.

Thanks for caring!

JOB 29:11-2 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

A SOUL SAVED TODAY!

PRAISE THE LORD!

Today we saw an answer to 13 years of prayer! Todd Sturgeon's Mom was in Connecticut (she lives in Florida) visiting Todd and his family and his Mom and Step Dad came to church. Well, she was gloriously saved this morning. Thirteen years but worth it all today as she stepped out and came forward to repent of her sin and trust the Lord Jesus Christ as her Saviour! GLORY TO GOD! A new name written down in glory!

VBS IS OVER...BUT THE LORD IS STILL WORKING!

Well, day 5 and the last night of this years VBS was a great finish to blessed week. We had well over 100 kids, teens and adults here for the last night. There was a skit on salvation at the conclusion of the night. To our knowledge there were four children saved during the week.

However, it did not stop there as I just got off the telephone from speaking to two of our families and was told that two more (their children and grandchildren) boys were saved this afternoon. So, the seed sowed by the holy Spirit this past week is still reaping souls even after the VBS is concluded. God's word never returns void!

I praise the Lord for all the teens and adults who worked so hard to make this a blessed VBS. They ALL did an AWESOME job! MY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!

All of us (children, teens and adults) are already looking forward to next years VBS!

"Ship Ahoy" for next year!

Day 4 at VBS August 11, 2011

PRAISE THE LORD! We had 59 children come to VBS last night with 7 first time visitors. Another young boy was saved. His name is Nelson Guzman and he is 8 years old. It sure is exciting. He is a cousin of one of our church family.

These kids are having a fun time for sure, but the sole purpose is to provide an opportunity for lost kids to hear the gospel. We even had a teen come as a participant because he was invited by one of the visitors who has been coming all week long. He felt out of place being a ninth grader sitting with 6th graders so I hooked him up with a few of our teen boys who were working in the VBS. He seemed to feel better after that and opened up a tad. I invited him to come to church on Sunday so he could go to the teen class. He seemed very interested. He then told me he was planning to return again tonight. GLORY!

I have attached a few more pictures from last night...KEEP PRAYING!