Thanks so much for joining us in our church planting adventure for Jesus! Here are some updates and prayer requests!
Erin's Health
God is good to us all the time. Even though we don't really ever want hard things to happen, we are grateful for God's grace to us in the midst of struggles. Erin has been diagnosed with Crohn's Disease, which is an inflammation of the intestines. While it is not super fun or comfortable at times, we are blessed that it seems to be on the more mild end and that God has provided us with medicine and health care that will hopefully keep it under control. Thanks to everyone for your prayers (and continued prayers) as we live in a new world with Crohn's!
Things Going On
We are kicking off 2013 and seeing ministry move forward! We just launched our Pray nine3eight campaign and have been so blessed and encouraged by people all over the country that are praying for God to raise up and bring workers for His Kingdom in McKinney. You can join us too! Click on the link above or email Erin to get daily reminders to pray with us!
In conjunction with Pray nine3eight, our church is going to start a By Name campaign where we list specific people in our circles that we would love to see connect with Jesus and our church group! And we are also starting our first Sunday of the month Celebration Gatherings. Along with preaching, singing, kids' program and fellowship, I have been working on study materials to help us dive deeper into the Essentials of Christian beliefs.
And now that the holidays are over, we will pick back up on our Women's Bible Study and our Men's Tuesday Mornings. With all the things going on, we are anxious to see how Jesus grows and challenges us together.
Encouragements
We had a sweet time last Sunday where we devoted our entire church time to praying. It was so uplifting to meet with Jesus with our church family and hear how the Spirit is moving through our lives and what we are asking God to do with us and our city. It filled up my tank for sure!
Getting to preach again at Christ Fellowship is always encouraging. You can check it out here!
We have had a lot of new people who are not yet connected with us asking about what we are doing. It is encouraging to think that the Lord might be moving in people's spirits to come and join us! Be praying for that!
Prayer Requests:
- Praise: Answers and hope in Erin's health issues
- Praise: God is bringing people to join us in our Pray nine3 eight campaign
- Praise: God is unifying and building our church family together in His spirit
- Pray: God would continue to grow our church into more devoted disciples of Jesus and that we would be filled with His Spirit
- Pray: For the Celebration Gathering and other things going on - that they would connect us to Jesus, each other, and our city
- Pray: God would connect people and families to join us in knowing Jesus and taking the gospel to our city
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