Our church is a beautiful, country church, that was rebuilt about 18 years ago when the new highway got their old church. We started out with 12 people for Sunday School and 32 people for preaching. Several years ago we added a new fellowship hall witch is the buildings on the left.
Last Sunday we had 68 people for Sunday School and over a hundred for preaching. Praise the Lord. For the past four weeks, we have had someone join our church each week....either by letter or salvation. God has really been working in our church this year.
This is all AWESOME!!!! BUT....it did not JUST happen. PRAYER made the difference.
Roger and I have prayed for help for years for our church. BUT the difference came a little over a year ago when a group of our men began meeting between Sunday School and preaching and praying over my husband.
About six months ago, one of our young married men asked Roger if he would mind getting to church 30 minutes before Sunday School so the young men could pray over him.
Roger was excited that not only were the older men praying over him before the worship service....now the younger men were praying over him before Sunday School....so he told the church about it and how blessed he felt. Then the teacher of the older women's class spoke up and said, we have been praying for you at the end of Sunday School in our classroom for some time.
We have three groups, consistently praying for God to give Roger the words to say that would honor him....each Sunday.
Praise the Lord........that has made all of the difference.
- We are growing closer to the Lord.
- We are growing closer to each other.
- And, we are growing in numbers. too.
- People are energetic and dedicated and yearning to work for God.
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