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Serious Inquiries Only: This is LIFE OR DEATH.

In Devotional, being the church, prayer, urgent prayer needed on September 29, 2009 at 4:01 am

If there is 1 thing that our group needs as we seek to expand the Kingdom in a very tough place… it is this:

PRAYER.

Some of you just checked out. That’s old, it’s not fresh, it’s routine. For those of you who perked up…keep reading.

This will be right to the point. We need people, we need equipment, we need staff, we need money, we need __________…

But more than anything, we need HIS POWER. And I mean it. That is not a preacher’s phrase…we SEEK IT big time. Will you help us draw God’s ear and attention to this mission?

As a matter of fact, this is the first big act that I have done…our official fund raising hasn’t started yet, because it won’t start until this team starts. It’s a waste of time.

Here’s what we will expect of you:
1. That you will PRAY DAILY for us. Daily. Every day.
2. That you will KEEP REQUESTS CONFIDENTIAL. Please…this is a serious team.
3. That you will INTERCEDE like never before for our mission and battle for this mission we are on. We will need your contact info…so don’t forget to send that to me!

Here’s what you can expect from us:
1. Regular correspondence [at least 2 times a month] with REAL REQUESTS and PRAISES.
2. In-depth prayer concerns and praises, not just the superficial stuff [which is still important].
3. PRAYER for YOU from OUR TEAM. LOVE for your from OUR TEAM. We know you will be CLEARING THE WAY in BATTLE.

I take this stuff seriously. Jesus spent a ton of time PRAYING, when as the SON OF GOD, He could move HEAVEN and EARTH with 1 word. Just 1 word, but He modeled where the POWER can be FOUND.

We need this battle from YOU more than ANYTHING.

If you are SERIOUS about prayer and praying for MISSION WEST in Utah and beyond…please drop me your stats [name, address, phone, e-mail] to: chazzdaddy17@gmail.com

We really believe this passage is really real. Really. Real. Heaven and hell real. Life and death real. Eternity changers.

“For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” [ephesians 6.12 / asv]

[photo credit: http://bit.ly/14ayjm]

here is the young man’s thank you letter for each of you donors!

In being the church on January 13, 2009 at 12:36 am
Dear Donors,

I first want to say Amen! Thank you all sooo very much for helping me out this past month with getting back to school. This past month was not a good one for myself or my family and receiving this gift of generosity and one awesome miracle sent from God, I am able to return to college this semester.

I prayed and talked to God so much during this time of hurt and man is he ever so grateful. I want to thank you all again very much for giving me this opportunity to return back to school and pray that God will return to you with many blessings.

Thank you for making it happen. Thank you and God Bless!

Thanks for Sending a Young Man Back to School.

In being the church on January 12, 2009 at 2:07 pm

To everyone who sent money to help send a young man who has had a tough life back to school…I say a HUGE THANKS! YOU MADE IT HAPPEN!

The power of everyone chipping in…TOGETHER, we all made it happen and without each of you we would not have made our goal! Since I have been out of town, I don’t have an exact total, but I know we needed $608, and we ended up exceeding that, so we can send some spending money with him for this semester…not a ton of course, but a few bucks that will be a huge blessing.

How GREAT it is when like the Acts 2 church, we truly live in community as believers, because the church is so much greater than the 4 walls where you go for weekend worship. We are across the street and around the world. In person or via internet. In spirit or in flesh…let’s live radical community to the fullest.

Now…let’s all go and be a blessing to someone else today in BIG and SMALL ways. KNOWN and SECRET ways. When we WANT TO and when we DON’T.

Small MIRACLES can push people toward faith and the kingdom in ways we could never ask or imagine. You never know when you will be an answer to someone’s PRAYER or MIRACLE. Just like this young man.

Since these next few days I am praying with Tiff and hanging out to hear from God…don’t expect any posts for a few…but I will be back with a vengeance and you won’t believe what I picked up while out here. It rocked my world, and I believe that the next few weeks of posts will be some of the greatest tools and vision in quite some time.

(And I won’t lie…skiing my first real slopes here in Winter Park, CO in 1 hour and 42 minutes…has me beyond jacked. These things are freaking huge!) And that is one of MY places where I have time to be with God. Do you have those spaces and places? See ya…off to be alone with the WORD and PRAYER before a few hours of no doubt: bumps and lumps. Pray that we HEAR from GOD these next few days.

Blessings today!

another story of the church being the church.

In Devotional, being the church, love on January 3, 2009 at 4:45 pm

If you are ever rubbed raw by the nonsense that goes on in the sporting world, here is a story that will rock your world. I love sports, but the business behind it can be pretty dark.

Parents push, push, push at all expenses. Players are paid millions. Money is God and king. But all of that changed one night when people opened their hearts and went against the grain.

Take time to read this quick story on how the church was the church and people acted like Jesus on a football field in Texas.

Love it.

pic: Melinda Wright, courtesy espn.com

a chance to be the church.

In being the church on January 1, 2009 at 9:00 pm

OK…here goes. Let’s do this thing in 1 day.

There is a young man who has had a rocky road in his home life growing up. His life has had many ups and downs.

He has been a part of New Hope and served and given so much back to the Lord and this community since day 1. He has come for years by himself with no support at all.

Both of his parents (they are separated) lost their jobs and their entire family was actually homeless for a few weeks.

He is in the middle of his junior year at college, which he works a few jobs and takes out student loans to pay for. I saw him at work the other night and asked when he is going back to school and he said he probably couldn’t this semester because of lack of funds. I asked him how much he needed.

$608 (yes, six hundred and eight dollars). He brought me a copy of his bill.

His student loans were that much short and the college says…sorry.

I blurted out: “That’s all? I said…let me take care of that and you plan on going back right now.” So, knowing I can’t give the full amount, I stepped out on a limb of faith, knowing that this is an amazing community of faith in the BIG and the SMALL.

Can’t New Hope just write a check to him you ask?

With our benevolence fund being almost null and void with the vast amount of needs right now in our community, I thought…what the heck, with all the people who follow this blog, if everyone gave a small amount, it would be wiped out immediately and this young man could stop stressing and not let a tiny amount hold him back. Could take care of it in a few hours I suppose.

I also think it AMAZING that a small miracle can happen to him from a GROUP of people who don’t even know this young man, and the church can be the church and do what we are supposed to do…meet the needs of others in Jesus name.

I will be the first to step up and make this tiny amount disappear.

HOW ABOUT YOU? Whether you go to New Hope or not, if God speaks to you, please e-mail me with the amount you can give and either mail the check to New Hope or drop it in the red box this weekend with (STUDENT AID) on it. ($5, $10, $100?) Everyone can do something.

But please e-mail me so I know when we have reached the amount. Thanks for being the church.

New Hope Community Church
c/o: Student Aid
637 N. Market St.
Loudonville, OH 44842

my e-mail: charles@newhopewired.tv