What a Mighty God WE Serve

Can I get a witness out there? Our God is awesome!!! And He showed up and showed out at church today! Willie... man I just can't say enough about you leading our folks to sing that song "Nothing But the Blood" at 8:30 this morning. I've been singing it every since!!! You ministered to me with your talents this morning. And the guitar! I can only imagine what kind of time you spent practicing "LifeSong" to get it down as good as you had it. WOW!!!!

I had fun today! I must admit I do enjoy playing the drums with a good bass player. Terry is holding down the bass via the keyboard until God sends us a Bass Player and/or a drummer. Terry is with out a doubt the most talented yet humble musicians I have ever met. She has spent countless hours working with our praise teams since God led her here a year ago. You'll really get a kick out of this...... after our new members banquet, she said she needed to talk to me after Easter about getting busy in serving Christ at New Hope. She is one of our most active volunteers and wants to do more! God is good!

We also had two new members join this morning. Carrie Barnes and Ellen Cape. Both of these ladies and their kids are coming because Mike Jewell invited them. Mike has just "rejoined" our church after being away for many years! Now who have YOU invited to church lately?

OOOOH and I got to scratch off a TOP FIVE today! You see, I have this top five list that is just between God and I. No one else knows the top five. I don't even write it down or pray about it out loud because I don't want Satan to know what it is! ( praying in the Spirit is how I use a little prayer strategy :} Anyway.... one of my prayers was answered today as one of our guys who has helped with the AV Team came back to work tonight. I've missed you Brad, and I'm going to hold you to everything you said tonight! But God is going to bless man!

Prayer Requests for this week -

• Guidance for me. I don't want to do one thing this week that is not useful to God.
• That Ed Deese, Freya Dudley, and Sara Reynolds all come home from the hospital.
• For our new Children's Ministry. May God bless our efforts to make church the most exciting place a kid can be.
• For our volunteers. This group is growing and I love the opportunity to "share the load"
• That I will be able to go water skiing this week. (and I pray that this in some way be useful to God)
• Mom's going under the knife again! A minor knee surgery this time. Pray that they can fix it easily.
• That we all stay healthy in the pollen season. My throat is tight already.
• #1 Request!!!! That I lead someone to Christ this week!!!

Time to go to bed and prepare for what He has in store for tomorrow.

Whatever it takes,

Rob