Prayer for a new building

So we have come through a week of monsoon type weather with an increasing urgency for a new building. last week we found leaks we never had before. We are running out of creative cieling irrigation ideas. We had about 12 buckets going last week, being emptied every 8 hours or so. We are talking BIG buckets.

We have a line on a new building, close by and excellent for our purposes. Ministries can expand. The only problem is $$$$. Sound familiar? We need about $1.5 million. The owners are willing to work with us on payment and occupancy.

So, what we need now is prayer. Please pray with us that God will provide the $$$$. This is not a stretch for God's ability, but it is a huge stretch of our faith.

Peace,

K

Last Weekend

Have you ever found yourself so busy doing "God's" work that you don't spend any time with Him. I was there last week. Just running around taking care of business and finding no time to Be Still. By the time the weekend was half over I was drained. The heat didn't help, but I just felt like God was off-line, which usually means I was.

So, Sunday nite we had communion at church. Largely, because I needed it. I needed to remember Jesus. I needed to remember why I do what I do, and have it all put in perspective. I am still finding myself exhausted from the whole deal.

I usually put off spending time with God because I "can't" afford to take the time. I often find that I can't afford not to take the time.

peace,

K

Obedience

Thought I would take a break from my Wesleyan studies and write something in "normal" english. Those guys in 1800s couldn't speak to save their lives.

Misha went to be with the Chinese yesterday. Misha is a part of our community and family. She sensed God prodding her to spend a year in China, teaching english and spreading the love that is within her because of Jesus. I am blessed to see her obedience. She is wide eyed and walking in expectancy that God is going to use her to help redeem his kingdom in another place, much as He used her here.

Blessings Misha, may God blow you away with His grace and mercy, so that you can share it with those you come to love in China.

Peace,

K

Korie

I was away for the last 4 days at General Conference for Free Methodist Churches in Canada. Several of us hung out at The King Edward Arms Pub, across the street from the Hotel. We met Korie, a waitress there. She is a very cool lady. We chatted and joked alot. Korie asked where we were from and was very surprised to hear we were all pastors. Monday we met her again and she said that she was beginning to rethink faith.

How crazy is that? Pray for Korie.

Peace,

K

Rebel Manifest

It is rare that we look at the Bible and the letters of the new testament as the rebel manifest that it is. We more often read it from the position of being the normalized religious document of the religion of the masses. That is not what it was back then. That is not the spin the writers were putting on it. Followers of Jesus were an underground ragtag group of people considered to be anything from nuts to heretical and seditious. So, when Paul says that Jesus is the Saviour of the world, he is not screaming it from a raised pulpit, with a bravado that rivals our overconfident TV evangelists. It was from a minority position of "encouraging the troops" and reminding people why they were putting there lives and livelihoods on the line.

These people did not worry about being called irrelevant or stupid, they had to consider their very lives. They served a God who told them to love their enemies, turn the other cheek and who saved them by sacrificing himself, not killing others. He bought peace with his life, not the lives of others. This is a radical, unselfish faith. The challenge is living this radical faith, in a consumerist world that has enculturated and co-opted the church. The challenge is to once again become the body that takes care of people in need. To once again care about social justice and the environment. The call is to radical faith. The faith that Jesus died for. It is a call to action, not just words.

peace,

K