We had a great time at Dow Park last night. In total we had 10 people, about 3 gallons of ice cream, around 50 cones and bars of ice cream and a case of bottled water that we gave out. However, the best thing last night and the main reason we went out to the park was to simply offer gifts to anyone that would like one. I personally met several individuals including two sets of grandparents with grandkids, three very nice young families with kids and over 15 pre-teens / teenagers. I even had the opportunity to talk a little shop with one of the guys that is currently enrolled in college. The highlight of the evening for me was watching David on the skateboard. He did make it off the shorter ramps (one time with a little help from one of the kids-he was pushed) and the other time was truly solo. However, Dave was not comfortable sailing off the large ramp into the land of pain. So we had to be happy with watching the kids fly around on their skateboards and bikes. Overall it was a very good evening and we were able to accomplish our goal of just getting out into the city and doing some good work. We are looking forward to our next event at Dow Park on August 22nd at 7:00 PM.
Also, I was asked to post the receipt for the ice cream that we had so here it is:
Ingredients:
4 cans evaporated milk
1 can sweetened condensed milk
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 t. vanilla
Whole milk
Instructions:
Beat with mixer all the time
Beat eggs, add sugar and vanilla, and beat until the sugar dissolves
Add all the canned milks
Put into ice cream freezer and fill to the “fill line” with the whole milk
Run the freezer until frozen
For chocolate: add I can of Hershey’s chocolate syrup
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Time to Start Moving
The time has come for us to start putting into practice the things we have been discussing and praying about over the past few months.
We have completed a season of beginning along with a season of prayer and fasting. Now is the time for motion.
Starting in August we will be meeting on the 2nd and the 4th Saturdays of each month. These meeting will take place in Dow Park at 7:00 PM. Our first date is Aug 8th, on this day we will meet at the park to pass out ice cream and introduce ourselves to anyone in the park. We will also be discussing additional ways to serve others and planning those events. This activity is open to anyone in the Deer Park area that is simply interested in following Jesus and helping others. Pass the word and let's see how many gallons of ice cream we can pass out.
We have completed a season of beginning along with a season of prayer and fasting. Now is the time for motion.
Starting in August we will be meeting on the 2nd and the 4th Saturdays of each month. These meeting will take place in Dow Park at 7:00 PM. Our first date is Aug 8th, on this day we will meet at the park to pass out ice cream and introduce ourselves to anyone in the park. We will also be discussing additional ways to serve others and planning those events. This activity is open to anyone in the Deer Park area that is simply interested in following Jesus and helping others. Pass the word and let's see how many gallons of ice cream we can pass out.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
40 Days... Day 40
Good Afternoon Church,
Today is day 40 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in Hebrews 7:25
Hebrews 7:25
25Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
What a great thought to end this season of prayer with, Jesus intercedes for us. I hope that everyone has been able to gain something from these past 40 days. Our prayers will not go unanswered, we need only to have faith in what we have been praying for and to seek it out. God will provide both the opportunity and the means for us to accomplish our goals.
God bless you today as you are praying.
Today is day 40 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in Hebrews 7:25
Hebrews 7:25
25Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
What a great thought to end this season of prayer with, Jesus intercedes for us. I hope that everyone has been able to gain something from these past 40 days. Our prayers will not go unanswered, we need only to have faith in what we have been praying for and to seek it out. God will provide both the opportunity and the means for us to accomplish our goals.
God bless you today as you are praying.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
40 Days...Day 39
Good Morning Church,
Today is day 39 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in Hebrews 5:7-10
Hebrews 5:7-10
7In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. 8Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. 9And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, 10being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
I can not believe we are already on day 39, and here we find Jesus being made perfect through His sufferings. In all the Jesus suffered in His life, He never lost faith or hope, and He never lost contact with God. If you are going through a hard time or a time of suffering right now, don’t loose heart. Keep the prayers flowing up to God and know that He is faithful. God can turn every situation created by demons into good. We may not understand how, but we can trust Him.
God bless you today as you are praying.
Today is day 39 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in Hebrews 5:7-10
Hebrews 5:7-10
7In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. 8Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. 9And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, 10being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
I can not believe we are already on day 39, and here we find Jesus being made perfect through His sufferings. In all the Jesus suffered in His life, He never lost faith or hope, and He never lost contact with God. If you are going through a hard time or a time of suffering right now, don’t loose heart. Keep the prayers flowing up to God and know that He is faithful. God can turn every situation created by demons into good. We may not understand how, but we can trust Him.
God bless you today as you are praying.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
40 Days...Day 38
Good Morning Church,
Today is day 38 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in John 17
John 17
1Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 2even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.
3"This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4"I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. 5"Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. 6"I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7"Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; 8for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
9"I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; 10and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11"I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. 12"While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
13"But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. 14"I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15"I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.
16"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17"Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. 18"As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19"For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 20"I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22"The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. 24"Father, I desire that (they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25"O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; 26and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
Wow, what a prayer from our savior Jesus. Please take the time to read through this passage two or three times today, don’t just hurry through it and miss the power of this passage.
God bless you today as you are praying.
Today is day 38 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in John 17
John 17
1Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 2even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.
3"This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4"I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. 5"Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. 6"I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7"Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; 8for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
9"I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; 10and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11"I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are. 12"While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
13"But now I come to You; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. 14"I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15"I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.
16"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17"Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. 18"As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19"For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 20"I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22"The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. 24"Father, I desire that (they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25"O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me; 26and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."
Wow, what a prayer from our savior Jesus. Please take the time to read through this passage two or three times today, don’t just hurry through it and miss the power of this passage.
God bless you today as you are praying.
Monday, June 22, 2009
40 Days...Day 37
Good Morning Church,
Today is day 37 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in John 16:23-28
John 16:23-28
23"In that day you will not question Me about anything Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. 24"Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
25"These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.
26"In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; 27for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. 28"I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father."
Boldness in prayer, it should be something that we do on a regular basis, but do we? If not, then the question should be, why not? Jesus has given us the instructions to be bold and pray “asking the Father in Him name” on many occasions. How well do we trust Jesus, or do we lean on what we have been taught and our traditions?
Step out of the rut and truly believe in God and make a bold request of the Father. It is not testing God it is simple following God’s desire for our lives.
God bless you today as you are praying.
Today is day 37 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in John 16:23-28
John 16:23-28
23"In that day you will not question Me about anything Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. 24"Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
25"These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father.
26"In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; 27for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. 28"I came forth from the Father and have come into the world; I am leaving the world again and going to the Father."
Boldness in prayer, it should be something that we do on a regular basis, but do we? If not, then the question should be, why not? Jesus has given us the instructions to be bold and pray “asking the Father in Him name” on many occasions. How well do we trust Jesus, or do we lean on what we have been taught and our traditions?
Step out of the rut and truly believe in God and make a bold request of the Father. It is not testing God it is simple following God’s desire for our lives.
God bless you today as you are praying.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
40 Days...Day 36
Good Evening Church,
Today is day 36 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in John 15:9-17
John 15:9-17
9"Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10"If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. 11"These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. 12"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14"You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17"This I command you, that you love one another.
Love one another, that is such a simple thing to do, and yet it is so very hard. The single most important thing we can do to show love is to serve one another. By taking the focus off ourselves we can shift that focus to God where it belongs.
God bless you today as you are praying.
Today is day 36 on our 40 day journey to bring ourselves closer to God. Today’s text is found in John 15:9-17
John 15:9-17
9"Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10"If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. 11"These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. 12"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14"You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16"You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. 17"This I command you, that you love one another.
Love one another, that is such a simple thing to do, and yet it is so very hard. The single most important thing we can do to show love is to serve one another. By taking the focus off ourselves we can shift that focus to God where it belongs.
God bless you today as you are praying.
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