Mentone was beautiful as usual. with all the trees that change colors and being at a place that is so special to me was refreshing, even if it was at a new location. mentone was different this year. we had to change locations and we had a whole new group of kids go this year. i was in charge of the music and the worship room. alan and mary got an amazing worship leader to come sing & we actually got some kids to come help sing as well. we have never done that before and it turned out really good. i even got to help him sing! it was fun! since i haven't sang since being in Dunamis. i found a verse that really helped my nerves before i sang: "Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool." (ps 132:7). it just reminded of why i love to go to Mentone and it helped me to forget all the kids there so i could sing.
bethany and i got to have some really good bonding time. we really needed it and it was wonderful. i got to see where she works. she has an amazing view through the window. she gets to look over part of oak mountain state park! i loved it.
my favorite picture from the weekend:
this week at church we had tommie zito ministries come hold revival meetings. they were really awesome. he just let the holy spirit move every night. we also had trainings in the mornings so you could go out and talk to the people in the birmingham metro area. it was really neat. i went out one day to UAB and tried it out. we had a script that said everything that we needed to say. i was not good at it at all. but i was really glad that i tried it. my goal was really to talk with one person about anything and pray for them. God let me, and i got to talk with a lady who is a believer but is having a hard time due to health issues and whatever else is going on in her life. i felt her pain and cried with her; then prayed with her for strength and healing. it was really cool. tommie addressed the issue of abortion and showed a video that was not pleasant at all and he also showed another video about how Christianity is dying. if we don't start to change the world then God's children will go to hell.
people at my church definitely woke up this week. i pray that we will no longer stay complacent in my church.
we had kids in the youth group go out and talk with people. one boy (13yrs) led a muslim to Christ within 5 minutes; his little brother (11yrs) led a person at the galleria to christ and the person next to him without even talking to the person! the city of birmingham is really hungry for the truth.
highlights from the week:
1. 589 people got saved from our outreach! Praise JESUS!
2. our new music pastor came this week
3. i started my job at the bakery
highlight that is coming up:
our new youth pastor is coming tomorrow! and will be here on sunday!
here is a picture of the names of people who got saved!
After
Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
-Acts 16:10
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