I have been meaning to sit down and blog for days, but since dealing with Ivan last week for many reasons I have not been able to.
Tomorrow is an exciting day at Port City, we begin a brand new building campaign and I am very excited. I am excited about our theme it is, "Give to Save," the idea is less about buildings and more about truly reaching our community. My prayer is that it will help to bring our congregation into a better understanding of what we have to be in our area to reach our community and give everyone a chance to be involved on many levels! How exciting! Ray Fulenwider is here with us, actually staying with Susan and I, we have had a great time today. He is an awesome guy and I really appreciate his openness and focus on the church's need to be relevant in it's community!
Tomorrow will be wild and action packed, a full day affair - as most of my Sundays are. I am not sure what it is, but Sundays give me a rush, I love them. I am so thankful God has allowed me to serve him this way! He is good all the time!
On another note, some of you have asked me how you can help in regard to Ivan. The city of Mobile actually did pretty well, we had little damage and no major issues. The city of Pensacola on the other hand did not fare so well. There are two churches in the Pensacola area that I am familiar with, that could use assistance, there websites are below. I encourage you to contact them and see how you can help!
Gateway Church of Christ
First City Church
God bless all of you who contacted me, my parents also live in Florida and it looks like they could recieve the brunt of Jeanne, please pray for them as well! Thanks for all of the encouragement!
Father, please be with all of those dealing with Hurricanes past and present. You are the great protector and provider. My prayer is that you will spare the lives of as many as possible. I am so thankful you have spared so many from this time of frustration, please continue to bless us with your presence, understanding and love! Amen.
JD said...
Hey Chris ... hope your parents did ok in the storm. I also hope we are through with storms of the Hurricane variety for the year. Is that too much to hope for? Wild year.
