This past weekend was a huge weekend for Lori and I. We had 3 events that we got to lead, assist
and attend. We attended a Brazilian
Youth Group meeting, led the Church Planter Picnic and assisted with
Celebration Church’s Outreach event. We
got a small glimpse of when Jesus fed the five thousand. We fed over 500 people this past weekend,
which was a miracle in itself.
Church Planter Picnic
The Church Planter Picnic was a success! Thankfully we had over 15 of the church
planters and their families come to the picnic.
As many of you know, one of our prayer requests have been to reach the
ethnic pastors. Most of the planters
that attended were the ethnic pastors that I had yet connected with by email or
Facebook. It was an answer to prayer.
Over the past few months, I have been trying to connect with these men and
their families. A youth group from FBC
Prattville, Alabama came and led children’s games, puppet show, and sang. However the huge heroes of the day were
members of a local congregation and a local motorcycle association who came to
serve. We out these people, we could not
have done the picnic and fed almost 250 people.
Nothing warms your heart like a big burly motorcycle guy serving sno-cones
to children. This upcoming Sunday, we
will have an opportunity to lead worship at the church that helped with the
picnic. We are excited about this
opportunity.
Celebration Church
This past week we got to work with a Brazilian church called
Celebration Church. It is one of the few
churches in the North Shore area that are trying to reach almost 400,000
Brazilians. We had the opportunity to
attend their worship service, which is in English and Portuguese. Most of the adults do not speak English,
while the children are bilingual. Thankfully
Brazilians can understand Spanish and so I get to use my Spanish to connect
with the older generation. Portuguese is
harder to speak than I what I first thought. Celebration Church is a very welcoming church family
of about 300, which is considered a large church in this area.
On Friday night, Lori and I got to help with the youth group
called Boston Metro. Youth group went
from 7:30 to past 10 pm. When the leader
found out that I played guitar, he asked me to sit in and play with the worship
team. The level of musicianship was
amazing. Most of the students play
several instruments. We enjoyed our time
connecting with the students.
Sunday was a big day for their church. The day started with baptizing 5 people and
then a huge outreach event at a local park.
The group from FBC Prattville also helped serve and set-up. They were huge in making the event a
success. 3 men stepped up to grill for
over 5 hours. We fed around 400
people.
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