HEY GUYS!
I am in the newark liberty international airport waiting for my flight to take off back home to san fran...
unreal...
my time in irealnd is done...i am in awe right now.....and filled with so many emotions right now as i sit here and process WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED!
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U
but i haveSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH to tell you about my week last week in the republic of Ireland doing outreach in the catholic communites there!
GUys thanks for your prayers!
i can't wait to talk with you all in person!
MUCH LOVE!
All the best!
IN HIS GRIP,
megan
Monday, July 28, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Week...who even knows...But i do know that WE SERVE A BIG GOD!
HEY!
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U
can i just start off my saying that i TOTALLY MISS YOU ALL LIKE CRAZY and wish you all could be here to experience the things that i am experiencing!
God is so faithful and this week i was able to experience a wee bit of his BEAUTY!
This week was a LOT LOT LOT more chill which was so needed after the craziness of sonshine week! But tuesday i had the opportunity to go with Sharon and Melvin to Melvin's biblestudy/prayer group that he has. What the group is a friends and family who wanted to support melvin when he went to Mozambique almost 4 years ago. So they met the frist tuesday of every month to pray....GUYS PRAYER IS SO IMPORTANT! That is something we have done SO much of!
So melvin asked me to share my heart and bring a verse to share with the group. It was great to be around people who are equally passionate about missions! I shared a little bit about who i am and what i am doing with my life right now and then i talked about Isaiah 55 again and it is funny because Daddy, you gave me ISAIAH 55:11 when i was in south africa a year ago but it is NOW impacting my life which is such a testimony for that verse which tells us that GOD'S WORD DOES NOT COME BACK VOID! and i praise him for that! So after i talked we spent the next hour in prayer for Mozambique, for all of the missionaries we knew that are in this world! It was so humbling to get prayed for too. I love how i am so willing to pray for others but then when it comes to me i feel like my prayer requests are "important" or "major" enough...ya know...but it has been good for me to GET OVER MY SELF and ask for help and let others bless me...
Then on wednesday morning we woke up early and meet the heartbeat team at 8 in the morning to go on a prayer walk around the Portglenone Forest. It was a beautiful crisp morning and in stead of sitting in a room praying(and potentially falling asleep hehe) we walked and prayed for their trip to Mozambique! It is funny because i feel like i am going to Mozambique now lol...who knows...maybe someday i will! But the forest was BEAUTIFUL! The middle of the forest has a the River Bann running through it and O MY WORD i wanted to jump in and have dad circle around the boat and do a wakeboard run on the PERFECT GLASS WATER! lol
So after an hour of prayer in the forest we went back to the WB and had another prayer time with the whole WB staff...We discussed a lot about sonshine week...pro's and con's and what could happen differently and better...and they were then talking about why was then not a total revival of the town...why were lives not being changed LEFT AND RIGHT because so much preparation and TONS of prayer went into this week. But again acknowledging that God is in control and that his ways are not our ways and his plans are SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better then ours and that his timing is PERFECT and we just have to wait on him!
Waiting on him in something that right now i am struggling with...i know that i am probably not the only one who is thinking this right now but ok so many people went around this world and saw GOD MOVING this summer...
so what are we going to do with that
you cannot have encounter with God like we all have and NOT be changed by it...
but what change needs to happen?
How are we going to make APU a place that fears God and that pleases God and a place where RADICAL, CrAZY, but faithful little things happen for God?
How do we take the ways we have seen God work, the excitement we have in our hearts back to our Churches and not let that fire be extinguished!
It was so OBVIOUS that i was meant to be here this summer and i am so sad that my time is coming to a close here but now i am wrestling with the idea of WHAT DO I DO NOW!?!?!?!
I have seen such passion and such excitement in Christians that they can't help but tell everyone they know about it...why is that not the case for us at home...where is the difference....
we shouldn't have to TELL people we are christians...they should take one look at us and the things we are doing for them and for Jesus and KNOW that "wow these guys have something different...what is motivating their unselfish and impartial love"
WE PRAISE A RISEN SAVIOR...HE BROUGHT US FROM DEATH TO LIFE...WE CAN HAVE COMMUNION AND FRIENDSHIP WITH THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE...we need to start acting like it...we need to have a CONTAGIOUS faith...
so if you could be praying for me to figure out how God wants me to respond to him. and you as my friends and family PLEASE hold me accountable to NOT fall back into complacency!
ok i will get off the pulpit now...
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U
so on Wednesday afternoon it was BEAUTIFUL so after being in meetings all day Ricky, Rebekah and i went to Newferry which is another side of the River Bann and relaxed a little down time! It was lovely! Then on wednesday night we went to the prayer meeting at GP!
why dont we have more prayer meetings....
THis week we sang some worship songs and then we had to go and find someone we didn't know and pray with them! So the first guy i prayed with was Michael and He was a lovely and it was great to get encouragement from him and be prayed for by someone who loves God wholeheartedly and then i prayed and while i was praying he started speaking in tongues and it was such a great holy spirit moment and you could feel God's presence in that place! He started then talking about tongues and how God has given him the gift but has also given him the gift of interpretation...GUYS GOD IS BIG AND WE CANNOT WRAP OUR HEADS AROUND HIM NO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY! it is just great to see a new and amazing aspect of God...
Then i prayed with Ian who is a young guy who wants to go to Uni(college) for media... Great to see a young guy who wants to take God into his workplace!
After the hour of prayer we then sang again and then we FELLOWSHIPPED! Green Pastures has such a welcoming atmosphere and the people there are so lovely and filled with the spirit!
O MY WORD BUT FUNNY STORY! so ricky, rebekah and i were eating our lunch at the People's park in Ballymena and we had just sat down and were enjoying the beautiful day when BAM we felt something wet hit us...A BIRD HAD POOPED ON US! we were all sitting on different sides of the table but we ALLL got hit with it! It was so funny! just thought i would share!
Also this week i had the chance to go up to a wee down called Downhill and go up a mountain and look over the coast of Northern Ireland...look onto Scotland...and see the beautiful forests and country side! I was in awe of the peace that i was overwhelmed with! It is crazy to think though that while i am looking at such a peaceful scene...that our brothers and sisters around this world are in such distress are being tortured for their faith...the people who are in sudan, india, china, afganistan and are seeing such chaos and turmoil...but the God we serve is in each place and can offer us peace even when around us their seems to be no hope! We just have to trust in him! Not saying that the turmoil and madness will stop...but the peace that our Father gives passes understanding!
On Saturday it was July 12! The 12 starts the night before with BONFIRES...there are bonfires in each village and they are SUPER SUPER BIG i took a picture and i will put it up soon of what they look like...but it is sad because it is a place for the young people to come and hang out--but they hang out and drink and do drugs at the bonfire...so again a negative connotation to the bonfire.....Since I missed the 4th of july for USA i had to so something patriotic so i got to participate in a wee bit of Northern Irish pride! It was a lovely day and i went with Lisa and Lavina(girls from GP) up to Ballyclare to watch the bands (each town has an Orange order which then makes a drum and flute or accordion or bagpipe marching band) so in the morning each Orange order marches in their own town then gets on a bus to the main march in the specific town and then marches there...then listens to a Political/Religious speaker then marches back to the bus and goes home and marches again in their town (after a visit to a pub or two). The girls i was with were not 100% supportive of the events that went on during that day because much of it is protestant pride and a bashing of the catholics! So we did not participate in much of the day...but it was a wonderful time to see what it was like on the 12th of July! There is still a lot of drama between these groups and when you add a whole day of drinking onto that things get ugly! But the girls i was with know where NOT to go so we avoided that!
Sunday morning went to GP in the morning for hte Frost time and it just so great to be with believers! And now i have transitioned from Jo and Mark in Ahoghill back to Sharon and Melvin in Antrim...so i take the GP bus to church! It is such a ministry because people WHO dont have cars or can't drive can get to church!
(we should thinking about how we can get people to church......)
and then on sunday night Richard Fleck or just FLECK preached about Paul and Silas being freed from Prison in Acts 16:16
PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!
16Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. 17This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved." 18She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her.
19When the owners of the slave girl realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. 20They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar 21by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice."
22The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten. 23After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. 24Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. 26Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose. 27The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. 28But Paul shouted, "Don't harm yourself! We are all here!"
29The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. 30He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
31They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household." 32Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. 33At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family.
Guys i have to go!
But i love you all and i praying for you and can't wait to see you!
Thanks for all the prayers and emails and comments!
GOD IS FAITHFUL!
IN HIS GRIP,
megan
Prayer:
~My brother Ryan is having surgery on the 17th so if you could be praying that it will go smoothly and as pain free as possible!
~That i will be able to figure out how to respond to God and apply what i have learned at home
~For all of the people who are on mission trips throughout this world in Ghana, Iraq, Nigeria, Nepal, China, Mexico...
Praises
~That i have been able to see his beautiful creation and get closer with him!
~That i am being challenged to think about life in a way that i have not before!
~That i have such a wonderful friends and family and are supporting me! and that i even get this opportunity! I am so incredible grateful!
~Next week i get the chance to go down to the Rebupilc of Ireland to work with OMS--more details coming soon!--
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U
can i just start off my saying that i TOTALLY MISS YOU ALL LIKE CRAZY and wish you all could be here to experience the things that i am experiencing!
God is so faithful and this week i was able to experience a wee bit of his BEAUTY!
This week was a LOT LOT LOT more chill which was so needed after the craziness of sonshine week! But tuesday i had the opportunity to go with Sharon and Melvin to Melvin's biblestudy/prayer group that he has. What the group is a friends and family who wanted to support melvin when he went to Mozambique almost 4 years ago. So they met the frist tuesday of every month to pray....GUYS PRAYER IS SO IMPORTANT! That is something we have done SO much of!
So melvin asked me to share my heart and bring a verse to share with the group. It was great to be around people who are equally passionate about missions! I shared a little bit about who i am and what i am doing with my life right now and then i talked about Isaiah 55 again and it is funny because Daddy, you gave me ISAIAH 55:11 when i was in south africa a year ago but it is NOW impacting my life which is such a testimony for that verse which tells us that GOD'S WORD DOES NOT COME BACK VOID! and i praise him for that! So after i talked we spent the next hour in prayer for Mozambique, for all of the missionaries we knew that are in this world! It was so humbling to get prayed for too. I love how i am so willing to pray for others but then when it comes to me i feel like my prayer requests are "important" or "major" enough...ya know...but it has been good for me to GET OVER MY SELF and ask for help and let others bless me...
Then on wednesday morning we woke up early and meet the heartbeat team at 8 in the morning to go on a prayer walk around the Portglenone Forest. It was a beautiful crisp morning and in stead of sitting in a room praying(and potentially falling asleep hehe) we walked and prayed for their trip to Mozambique! It is funny because i feel like i am going to Mozambique now lol...who knows...maybe someday i will! But the forest was BEAUTIFUL! The middle of the forest has a the River Bann running through it and O MY WORD i wanted to jump in and have dad circle around the boat and do a wakeboard run on the PERFECT GLASS WATER! lol
So after an hour of prayer in the forest we went back to the WB and had another prayer time with the whole WB staff...We discussed a lot about sonshine week...pro's and con's and what could happen differently and better...and they were then talking about why was then not a total revival of the town...why were lives not being changed LEFT AND RIGHT because so much preparation and TONS of prayer went into this week. But again acknowledging that God is in control and that his ways are not our ways and his plans are SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better then ours and that his timing is PERFECT and we just have to wait on him!
Waiting on him in something that right now i am struggling with...i know that i am probably not the only one who is thinking this right now but ok so many people went around this world and saw GOD MOVING this summer...
so what are we going to do with that
you cannot have encounter with God like we all have and NOT be changed by it...
but what change needs to happen?
How are we going to make APU a place that fears God and that pleases God and a place where RADICAL, CrAZY, but faithful little things happen for God?
How do we take the ways we have seen God work, the excitement we have in our hearts back to our Churches and not let that fire be extinguished!
It was so OBVIOUS that i was meant to be here this summer and i am so sad that my time is coming to a close here but now i am wrestling with the idea of WHAT DO I DO NOW!?!?!?!
I have seen such passion and such excitement in Christians that they can't help but tell everyone they know about it...why is that not the case for us at home...where is the difference....
we shouldn't have to TELL people we are christians...they should take one look at us and the things we are doing for them and for Jesus and KNOW that "wow these guys have something different...what is motivating their unselfish and impartial love"
WE PRAISE A RISEN SAVIOR...HE BROUGHT US FROM DEATH TO LIFE...WE CAN HAVE COMMUNION AND FRIENDSHIP WITH THE GOD OF THE UNIVERSE...we need to start acting like it...we need to have a CONTAGIOUS faith...
so if you could be praying for me to figure out how God wants me to respond to him. and you as my friends and family PLEASE hold me accountable to NOT fall back into complacency!
ok i will get off the pulpit now...
..
U
so on Wednesday afternoon it was BEAUTIFUL so after being in meetings all day Ricky, Rebekah and i went to Newferry which is another side of the River Bann and relaxed a little down time! It was lovely! Then on wednesday night we went to the prayer meeting at GP!
why dont we have more prayer meetings....
THis week we sang some worship songs and then we had to go and find someone we didn't know and pray with them! So the first guy i prayed with was Michael and He was a lovely and it was great to get encouragement from him and be prayed for by someone who loves God wholeheartedly and then i prayed and while i was praying he started speaking in tongues and it was such a great holy spirit moment and you could feel God's presence in that place! He started then talking about tongues and how God has given him the gift but has also given him the gift of interpretation...GUYS GOD IS BIG AND WE CANNOT WRAP OUR HEADS AROUND HIM NO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY! it is just great to see a new and amazing aspect of God...
Then i prayed with Ian who is a young guy who wants to go to Uni(college) for media... Great to see a young guy who wants to take God into his workplace!
After the hour of prayer we then sang again and then we FELLOWSHIPPED! Green Pastures has such a welcoming atmosphere and the people there are so lovely and filled with the spirit!
O MY WORD BUT FUNNY STORY! so ricky, rebekah and i were eating our lunch at the People's park in Ballymena and we had just sat down and were enjoying the beautiful day when BAM we felt something wet hit us...A BIRD HAD POOPED ON US! we were all sitting on different sides of the table but we ALLL got hit with it! It was so funny! just thought i would share!
Also this week i had the chance to go up to a wee down called Downhill and go up a mountain and look over the coast of Northern Ireland...look onto Scotland...and see the beautiful forests and country side! I was in awe of the peace that i was overwhelmed with! It is crazy to think though that while i am looking at such a peaceful scene...that our brothers and sisters around this world are in such distress are being tortured for their faith...the people who are in sudan, india, china, afganistan and are seeing such chaos and turmoil...but the God we serve is in each place and can offer us peace even when around us their seems to be no hope! We just have to trust in him! Not saying that the turmoil and madness will stop...but the peace that our Father gives passes understanding!
On Saturday it was July 12! The 12 starts the night before with BONFIRES...there are bonfires in each village and they are SUPER SUPER BIG i took a picture and i will put it up soon of what they look like...but it is sad because it is a place for the young people to come and hang out--but they hang out and drink and do drugs at the bonfire...so again a negative connotation to the bonfire.....Since I missed the 4th of july for USA i had to so something patriotic so i got to participate in a wee bit of Northern Irish pride! It was a lovely day and i went with Lisa and Lavina(girls from GP) up to Ballyclare to watch the bands (each town has an Orange order which then makes a drum and flute or accordion or bagpipe marching band) so in the morning each Orange order marches in their own town then gets on a bus to the main march in the specific town and then marches there...then listens to a Political/Religious speaker then marches back to the bus and goes home and marches again in their town (after a visit to a pub or two). The girls i was with were not 100% supportive of the events that went on during that day because much of it is protestant pride and a bashing of the catholics! So we did not participate in much of the day...but it was a wonderful time to see what it was like on the 12th of July! There is still a lot of drama between these groups and when you add a whole day of drinking onto that things get ugly! But the girls i was with know where NOT to go so we avoided that!
Sunday morning went to GP in the morning for hte Frost time and it just so great to be with believers! And now i have transitioned from Jo and Mark in Ahoghill back to Sharon and Melvin in Antrim...so i take the GP bus to church! It is such a ministry because people WHO dont have cars or can't drive can get to church!
(we should thinking about how we can get people to church......)
and then on sunday night Richard Fleck or just FLECK preached about Paul and Silas being freed from Prison in Acts 16:16
PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!
16Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. 17This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved." 18She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her.
19When the owners of the slave girl realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities. 20They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar 21by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice."
22The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten. 23After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. 24Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. 26Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose. 27The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. 28But Paul shouted, "Don't harm yourself! We are all here!"
29The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. 30He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
31They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household." 32Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. 33At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family.
Guys i have to go!
But i love you all and i praying for you and can't wait to see you!
Thanks for all the prayers and emails and comments!
GOD IS FAITHFUL!
IN HIS GRIP,
megan
Prayer:
~My brother Ryan is having surgery on the 17th so if you could be praying that it will go smoothly and as pain free as possible!
~That i will be able to figure out how to respond to God and apply what i have learned at home
~For all of the people who are on mission trips throughout this world in Ghana, Iraq, Nigeria, Nepal, China, Mexico...
Praises
~That i have been able to see his beautiful creation and get closer with him!
~That i am being challenged to think about life in a way that i have not before!
~That i have such a wonderful friends and family and are supporting me! and that i even get this opportunity! I am so incredible grateful!
~Next week i get the chance to go down to the Rebupilc of Ireland to work with OMS--more details coming soon!--
Monday, July 7, 2008
EXTREME MAKEOVER!
Hey guys! Let me apologize about my last post! i was really rushed for please excuse the messiness of it and all the spelling errors! But now it is monday afternoon and i have some down time to finsihing talking about what went down this past weekend!
SUNDAY was brilliant!
I went to church of Ireland again and got to experience that side of christianity...the side that is very ritualistic but i think that it is good to remeber the sacredness of God and have fear and respect and reverence for him! Then after that Rebekah (from heartbeat) and Jo set off to do some site seeing! We went to the coast and went to a Rope bridge called Carrick-a-reed! It was super fun and on the way we met a girl who was from california and went to DEER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL!
unreal!
such a small world! Then we rushed back to green pastures to get ready for Sonshine Sunday! THe church was PACKED! there were the regulars but all of the washbasin staff said that there were TONS of new people! We were expecting 50 kids to come and 120 SHOWED UP! it was LETHAL! so the service started out with a video of what we did during sonshine week and the song that played during it was the new Chris Tomlin Song GREATER THINGS HAVE YET TO COME GREATER THINGS ARE STILL TO BE DONE IN THIS CITY.....and it was sooo powerful and such a perfect song for what we were trying to accomplish this week! and Then the washbasin picked one wee girl Natasha to do a mini makeover on becuase she was able to stay close with Christ in spite of hard times that hit her! Then they did a home makeover of a old man who had made a huge impact on this community and the church! It was lovely! Then all of us kids club people did a dance and song that we had learned this week! Then after we sang the testimonies began!
The theme for the night was called "The Hunter and the Hunted" so the first guy that talked was David and he was part of the Police during the troubles and he shared his past and his hatred towards the catholic people and how he had such bitterness and rage---but GOD TOOK HOLD OF HIM and broke him down and made him realize that he needed to let go of the grip that he had on his life! So his story was truly a blessing to hear....BUT THEN IT GOT EVEN BETTER...he takled about how he had recently heard from a friend about how an IRA terrorist had come to know the Lord and turned his life around....so David told us that he felt that the Holy spirit was telling him to go and make peace with the man that in his past he was trying to kill!
THEN
the IRA man got up on stage and shared HIS testimony...and the way that he shared his was that he gave a SMALL description of what his life was like before christ beucase he did not want to give Satan the glory but he wanted to talk about how GOD had transformed his life becuase then he could give GOD all the glory! And to see how these two men who HATED each other and had both done some terrible thigns to each other could now stand on stage together and embrace as Brothers in Christ was truly an EXTREME MAKEOVER! I was in tears becuase it is not something they could have done on their own! BUT ONLY THROUGH CHRIST! and they acknowledged that!
The Passage for this week has been 2 Corinthians 5:17 but here is a chunk of the chapter!
11Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. 13If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
After the men spoke about forgiveness and reconciliation and how those are the ways to TRUE freedom in christ Pastor Jeff talked! He talked about how God doesn't just patch up our lives and cover stuff up like putting a table clothe over a stained table....HIS BLOOD GETS UNDER THE TABLE CLOTHE AND INTO EVERY PART OF OUR LIVES! There is no sin, no wound, no brokeness, no pain to big for God to heal!
Guys, there were so many people who came to know the Lord last night it was TRULY an honor to be in a place where the spirit was so alive and moving so much!
And worship was truly amazing and we didn't want it to end and i know that though this week is over, the work God is doing IS FAR FROM OVER!
we planted so many wee seeds this week! God is faithful!
Isaiah 55 talks about how God's ways are not our ways and how He knows what he is doing and HE WILL NOT LET HIS WORD COME BACK VOID! what a promise and a challenge for us to keep pressing on towards the goal! We need to be doing alllll we can to take people out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of LIGHT! and what a marvelous light it is!
So thanks again for your prayers and for you love and support! It was a LETHAL week and now we are all in recovery mode!
Remeber that Faith is spelled--R I S K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take some risks!
IN HIS GRIP,
megan frew
Praises:
~That at least 12 kids from kids club came to know the Lord this week!
~That i was about to meet some AMAZING people from this community and serve alongside them!
~That God is alive and working and moving in people's lives! And transformation and complete LIFE CHANGE can occur and is occuring!
Prayer:
~That all the seeds we planted will be able to spring up and that we will be able to see people's lives transformed! And that all the wee ones and older people who were saved can have the courage to stay strong and grow in their walk withthe Lord!!!!!
~That i will be able to understand how God wants me to take all the thigns that i am learning home with me and stop complaining about the church i see and with his grace become the church i see over here and the church that i dream of
~I am leading a bible study tomorrow night with people from OMS so if you could pray that i will be able to be the voice that God can use to speak to the people God has chosen to be there!
SUNDAY was brilliant!
I went to church of Ireland again and got to experience that side of christianity...the side that is very ritualistic but i think that it is good to remeber the sacredness of God and have fear and respect and reverence for him! Then after that Rebekah (from heartbeat) and Jo set off to do some site seeing! We went to the coast and went to a Rope bridge called Carrick-a-reed! It was super fun and on the way we met a girl who was from california and went to DEER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL!
unreal!
such a small world! Then we rushed back to green pastures to get ready for Sonshine Sunday! THe church was PACKED! there were the regulars but all of the washbasin staff said that there were TONS of new people! We were expecting 50 kids to come and 120 SHOWED UP! it was LETHAL! so the service started out with a video of what we did during sonshine week and the song that played during it was the new Chris Tomlin Song GREATER THINGS HAVE YET TO COME GREATER THINGS ARE STILL TO BE DONE IN THIS CITY.....and it was sooo powerful and such a perfect song for what we were trying to accomplish this week! and Then the washbasin picked one wee girl Natasha to do a mini makeover on becuase she was able to stay close with Christ in spite of hard times that hit her! Then they did a home makeover of a old man who had made a huge impact on this community and the church! It was lovely! Then all of us kids club people did a dance and song that we had learned this week! Then after we sang the testimonies began!
The theme for the night was called "The Hunter and the Hunted" so the first guy that talked was David and he was part of the Police during the troubles and he shared his past and his hatred towards the catholic people and how he had such bitterness and rage---but GOD TOOK HOLD OF HIM and broke him down and made him realize that he needed to let go of the grip that he had on his life! So his story was truly a blessing to hear....BUT THEN IT GOT EVEN BETTER...he takled about how he had recently heard from a friend about how an IRA terrorist had come to know the Lord and turned his life around....so David told us that he felt that the Holy spirit was telling him to go and make peace with the man that in his past he was trying to kill!
THEN
the IRA man got up on stage and shared HIS testimony...and the way that he shared his was that he gave a SMALL description of what his life was like before christ beucase he did not want to give Satan the glory but he wanted to talk about how GOD had transformed his life becuase then he could give GOD all the glory! And to see how these two men who HATED each other and had both done some terrible thigns to each other could now stand on stage together and embrace as Brothers in Christ was truly an EXTREME MAKEOVER! I was in tears becuase it is not something they could have done on their own! BUT ONLY THROUGH CHRIST! and they acknowledged that!
The Passage for this week has been 2 Corinthians 5:17 but here is a chunk of the chapter!
11Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. 12We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. 13If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
After the men spoke about forgiveness and reconciliation and how those are the ways to TRUE freedom in christ Pastor Jeff talked! He talked about how God doesn't just patch up our lives and cover stuff up like putting a table clothe over a stained table....HIS BLOOD GETS UNDER THE TABLE CLOTHE AND INTO EVERY PART OF OUR LIVES! There is no sin, no wound, no brokeness, no pain to big for God to heal!
Guys, there were so many people who came to know the Lord last night it was TRULY an honor to be in a place where the spirit was so alive and moving so much!
And worship was truly amazing and we didn't want it to end and i know that though this week is over, the work God is doing IS FAR FROM OVER!
we planted so many wee seeds this week! God is faithful!
Isaiah 55 talks about how God's ways are not our ways and how He knows what he is doing and HE WILL NOT LET HIS WORD COME BACK VOID! what a promise and a challenge for us to keep pressing on towards the goal! We need to be doing alllll we can to take people out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of LIGHT! and what a marvelous light it is!
So thanks again for your prayers and for you love and support! It was a LETHAL week and now we are all in recovery mode!
Remeber that Faith is spelled--R I S K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take some risks!
IN HIS GRIP,
megan frew
Praises:
~That at least 12 kids from kids club came to know the Lord this week!
~That i was about to meet some AMAZING people from this community and serve alongside them!
~That God is alive and working and moving in people's lives! And transformation and complete LIFE CHANGE can occur and is occuring!
Prayer:
~That all the seeds we planted will be able to spring up and that we will be able to see people's lives transformed! And that all the wee ones and older people who were saved can have the courage to stay strong and grow in their walk withthe Lord!!!!!
~That i will be able to understand how God wants me to take all the thigns that i am learning home with me and stop complaining about the church i see and with his grace become the church i see over here and the church that i dream of
~I am leading a bible study tomorrow night with people from OMS so if you could pray that i will be able to be the voice that God can use to speak to the people God has chosen to be there!
Saturday, July 5, 2008
SONSHINE WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
O MY GOODNESS DID THAT JUST HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sonshine week 2008:
KidsClub theme was Champions Challenge! So each day we looked at who Jesus was in relation to a team!
So we are going to breakdown day by day!
Monday:
we arrived at the WB at half 8(8:30) and started the morning with worship and prayer--whcih is what we did every morning! it was wonderful to have the jump start and encouraged to face the day adn it is something that i valued so mauch becasue it is true we are fighting a battle and stan is not happy about that so if we start the day giving God all the glory then we are equiped to face the battle that the day holds! So once we had an all volunteer group prayer time we slip up into our teams so the silly swimmers which is my team meaning the wee ones from P1-P4 which is ages 5-8 and then there was the hyper hockey team which was P5-P6 which is ages 9-10 and then there was the reilly rugby team which was ages P7 and First Year which is ages 11-12! So the silly swimmer team met in the back hall of the washbasin which was all decorated as olymic grandstand! it was LETHAL =) and Monday's theme was talking about Jesus is our TRAINER! So we start the morning off with some fun games to keep the kids entertained then at half 10 we start off with our mc's 118-118 which is a funny show that is popular over here--you should youtube it!-- so they do a dance which going along with the champions challenge theme was like a workout routine!!!!!!!!!!!! and then after the dance we did three songs that all had motions and dances moves and the kids LOVED um! THen after worship there was a little drama skit that went with each day's theme! So on monday i got to participate in the drama so that was SUPER fun! then after the drama everyday we had a different memory verse! Monday's verse was John 15:14 If you love me you will obey my commands! After the memory verse we would watch a DVD clip about a bible story and then after the clip a leader would come up and reexplain the story and the bible verse! Following the story was the QUIZ time! Quiz time was super fun becuase it was all about getting the leaders as messy/wet/humiliated as possible so games that were sticking your head in water then in flour trying to get the most points for your team! just silly stuff to make it fun for the kids to ask questions! Then we would go into our JAM groups which are JESUS AND ME time! I have a wee group of 9 kids who were all 8! I love how God uses everything in our past to prepare us for what he has in store for us today! I worked with third graders all this year at Cornerstone in sunday school and now i know why!!!!!!!!!!!!! God is so faithful! My group had Rebekah, Rachel, Alyssa, Nicole, Steven, Matthew, Matthew, Reese, Corrin. So in our JAM groups we did a little craft and then had a wee worsheet that explained the story. Then after JAM time we would send them home and go have lunch as a team! After lunch we would prepare for our afternoon activities! Afternoon times were for the older kids who were P5 and higher--9-12 year olds! So monday's afternoon activies was a photo challenge so i had a group of fun boys so we ran around Ahoghill for two hours! i will post the pictures soon!
Then at like half 4 they go home and we cleaned up had dinner and then got ready for FUN NIGHT! Fun night is a time where bounce houses, and boothes are set up all round the washbasin and the diamond in ahoghill. My job for the fun nightwas PUPPETS!!!!!!!!!! so much fun....but here is the thing...we spent so much time in prayer for the weather on monday night that God would NOT LET IT RAIN..and what happened monday night...IT RAINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but That did mattter there was still a great turn out of kids and families! The puppet show starts with a song and then we go into a dialogue and they always want me to talk because they like my accent! =) so i got to do it and i LOVE that kind of stuff so it was a blast! THen we end it with two more songs so by the end o man your arms are KILLING ya! but it is all worth it becuase we get tot share the gospel in a different and fun way! Then after that i went to the car park(parking lot) in the back of the washbasin and helped with the sumo-wrestler suits! It was so mcuh fun and priase the Lord i bought that rain jacket! I would have been hating it if i didn't have that! But some great times with all the leaders! But fun night isn't just about the fun! it is a time for us to talk with kids, parents and families about the rest of the week and what God is doing in thier lives and in our lives! I know that great things happened that night even though the night did not go the wya we planned it!
So we started the week with a super long day! but it got us pretty pumped up for the rest of the week!
So tuesday rolled around and we did the same routine in the morning but tuesday theme was Jesus is my HEALER! so we got to talk with the kids about who in their lives where sick! BUt the question we asked them was "are you on Jesus's team?" it was wonderful to find out that most of my group were christians...but pray for wee steven, matthew, and corrin becuase they were the ones who were confused and didn't know if they were on Jesus' team. And pray for Corrin becuase we talked about how God can heal his dad and i know that if God does heal his dad that he will be able to see the POWER that Christ has! The verse for the day was Heb 11:1 For faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see! Tuesday's afternoon activity was mini olymics and again we prayed so much for God to stop the rain..but again it RAINED! and so we couldn't go to to the football pitches(field) to do the olymics so we went to the presbyterian church down the street and had like 12 stations of fun little games that we did! It was a great day where the kids were able to have fun and keep buliding those relationships with kids becuase once you gain their trust they TOTALLY OPEN UP TO YOU! tuesday night was not a required thing but there was a night called Shelter which is for women and it is a time to listen to a lady who had two daughters with severe physical disabilities and talk about her testimony and how God worked in her life! Her book is called Under the Rainbow--i forget her name but i will let you know later--and what is cool about shelter is that throughout the whole week in the mornings there were times for women to come in and be pampered by getting hteir hair done, getting their nails or toes done, get a message and just talk with someone for a while! Women need to know that they are loved and this was a great way to show them the LOVE OF GOD! that their Daddy loves them!
Also, throughout the whole week there were coffee mornings which was a time when anyone could come in andd get free tea and coffee and talk with someone...there was a creche(nursey) where mummies could drop their wee babies for free! Also, there was a team that reached out specifically to the old folks and went to nursing homes throughout the villages doing puppet shows, pampering and just talking!
ALSO! there was a team called streat reach which was out each morning doing stuff within the village like cleaing pub toilets and washing windows but their main focus is the youth...the kids who are out on the streets drinking and doing drugs and just being youth! So every afternoon/evening there was something for them to do! Pray that all of the relationships built will be able to grow and that there will continue to be questions raised by the youth about Jesus!
then there is clean up which goes around and cleans up people's yards and asking anyone if they needed anything done!
FINALLY! there was a door-to-door team that went out into the village and gave more gifts out and invited people to sonset supper which was on friday night and asking them about how they felt about Jesus!
so as you can see there is alot going on throughout the week!
wednesday was when we talked about Jesus being our TEAMMATE! and the verse was 1 Cor. 12:27 Together we are the body of Christ, and each one of your is part of that body! It was brilliant! Wednesday afternoon was the "party!" so we did some dances and then played more games and i had an AMAZING group of boys who loved the games and were super competive! =)
but wednesday night was GREAT! we went to GP and we did ITS A KNOCKOUT competion which is a whole field full of fun obstacle course bounce house stuff. I was on a team with Joanne(kids club MAIN leader) and a couple other guys from the kids club! It was such a blast and the point of this night is to get all of teh different churches in the area to come together and hang out so we were playing against people form church of ireland and from the presbyterian churches in the area! such a fun time!
my team ended up getting like 2nd or 3rd place! and SUCH A MIRACLE! THE RAIN CLOUDS LITTERALLY PARTED! it didn't rain until we were almost completely done with our competiion! and it was so wonderful to see the sky blue and bright ONLY above US!!!!!!!!!!!! and then there was a FULLLLLL rainbow in the sky and it was so exciting! GOD IS GOOD!
and then rebekah and i did the sumo suits when it was POURING down rain and it was so much fun! Then we stayed at GP hannging out until like midnight!
Thursday was probably the best and most important day for kids club!
this was when we talked about how Jesus is our subsitute! the verse was Romans 5:8 how God shows his love for us in this way, Christ died for us while we were still sinners and we talked aobut Jesus and the cross and O MAN you could feel the spirit and the presence of God in that place! pray that God will touch each one of the kids lives who are on the bench of life who are not christians yet but are thinking about it!
Then on thursday afternoon were supposed to do its a knockout with kids club but it POURED! so we went to GP and had a game time and during that time i got to talk with these two girls from Poland Natalia and Paulina and it was great to hear their story and they were catholic girls and i got to talk to them about what that meant to be catholic and what they thought about all of this Jesus stuff and the washbasin so i told them what i thought about life and jesus and christianity and catholicism and pray that they can bring their family on sunday to GP for our sunday night sonshine week service!
but it was great to have these kids see GP and see that church doesn't have to be an OLD building that only has a sanctuary! While i was riding home on the bus with the wee boys they were so amazing that the church had a play place and tvs and pool tables! but it was great to tell them that GOd does NOT dwell in a building but he dwells in our hearts and that is what the church really is!
Friday was the final day and i couldn't believe that it went so fast! The theme for Friday was that Jesus is teh champion and we got to talk about the RESURECTION and how we serve a RISEN SAVIOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the Verse was Heb 12:1 Now let us run the race that is before us and never give up and how we should remove anything from our lives that owuld get in the way and the sin that so easily holds us back!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys---we had TEN KIDS come to know the lord this week! it was AMAZING to hear their hearts and see how their wee lives were changed but how that also helped change the leaders lives as well!
Friday night was AMAZING!
we had athing called sonset supper where all of the families that we had been talking to that week could come and here about people whose lives had been some extreme makeovers! We had Marvin Andrews who is a football players from the Rangers team in Scotland and Alison Stewart a women who was on the streets and in jail but is now saved come and share their testimonies! GUYS GOD WAS THERE AND HE WAS WORKING AND SPEAKING THROUGH THESE PEOPLE!
there were a lot of youth there to see Marvin and he was SO passionate about his faith and had SOOOO much Faith in God and the power that He has!
Look up Marvin Andrews and ALISON STEWART's stories! You will be blessed!
guys there are so many more stories i want to tell you but rightnow i am off to BELFAST to go to a worship night with people from GP so i will write more tomorrow! but i love you all and cannot thank you enough for your prayers!
God is still moving and working!
Tomorrow night is the church service where a guy from the IRA terrorist and a preacher are talking about how their lives have been through an extreme makeover!
so pray that God can save souls tomorrow night through these testimonies!
..
U
love you all!
stay strong!
happy 4th of july!
KEEP BELIEVING!
JESUS IS ALIVE!
HE HEALS!
HAVE FAITH!
..
U
IN HIS GRIP,
megan
sonshine week 2008:
KidsClub theme was Champions Challenge! So each day we looked at who Jesus was in relation to a team!
So we are going to breakdown day by day!
Monday:
we arrived at the WB at half 8(8:30) and started the morning with worship and prayer--whcih is what we did every morning! it was wonderful to have the jump start and encouraged to face the day adn it is something that i valued so mauch becasue it is true we are fighting a battle and stan is not happy about that so if we start the day giving God all the glory then we are equiped to face the battle that the day holds! So once we had an all volunteer group prayer time we slip up into our teams so the silly swimmers which is my team meaning the wee ones from P1-P4 which is ages 5-8 and then there was the hyper hockey team which was P5-P6 which is ages 9-10 and then there was the reilly rugby team which was ages P7 and First Year which is ages 11-12! So the silly swimmer team met in the back hall of the washbasin which was all decorated as olymic grandstand! it was LETHAL =) and Monday's theme was talking about Jesus is our TRAINER! So we start the morning off with some fun games to keep the kids entertained then at half 10 we start off with our mc's 118-118 which is a funny show that is popular over here--you should youtube it!-- so they do a dance which going along with the champions challenge theme was like a workout routine!!!!!!!!!!!! and then after the dance we did three songs that all had motions and dances moves and the kids LOVED um! THen after worship there was a little drama skit that went with each day's theme! So on monday i got to participate in the drama so that was SUPER fun! then after the drama everyday we had a different memory verse! Monday's verse was John 15:14 If you love me you will obey my commands! After the memory verse we would watch a DVD clip about a bible story and then after the clip a leader would come up and reexplain the story and the bible verse! Following the story was the QUIZ time! Quiz time was super fun becuase it was all about getting the leaders as messy/wet/humiliated as possible so games that were sticking your head in water then in flour trying to get the most points for your team! just silly stuff to make it fun for the kids to ask questions! Then we would go into our JAM groups which are JESUS AND ME time! I have a wee group of 9 kids who were all 8! I love how God uses everything in our past to prepare us for what he has in store for us today! I worked with third graders all this year at Cornerstone in sunday school and now i know why!!!!!!!!!!!!! God is so faithful! My group had Rebekah, Rachel, Alyssa, Nicole, Steven, Matthew, Matthew, Reese, Corrin. So in our JAM groups we did a little craft and then had a wee worsheet that explained the story. Then after JAM time we would send them home and go have lunch as a team! After lunch we would prepare for our afternoon activities! Afternoon times were for the older kids who were P5 and higher--9-12 year olds! So monday's afternoon activies was a photo challenge so i had a group of fun boys so we ran around Ahoghill for two hours! i will post the pictures soon!
Then at like half 4 they go home and we cleaned up had dinner and then got ready for FUN NIGHT! Fun night is a time where bounce houses, and boothes are set up all round the washbasin and the diamond in ahoghill. My job for the fun nightwas PUPPETS!!!!!!!!!! so much fun....but here is the thing...we spent so much time in prayer for the weather on monday night that God would NOT LET IT RAIN..and what happened monday night...IT RAINED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but That did mattter there was still a great turn out of kids and families! The puppet show starts with a song and then we go into a dialogue and they always want me to talk because they like my accent! =) so i got to do it and i LOVE that kind of stuff so it was a blast! THen we end it with two more songs so by the end o man your arms are KILLING ya! but it is all worth it becuase we get tot share the gospel in a different and fun way! Then after that i went to the car park(parking lot) in the back of the washbasin and helped with the sumo-wrestler suits! It was so mcuh fun and priase the Lord i bought that rain jacket! I would have been hating it if i didn't have that! But some great times with all the leaders! But fun night isn't just about the fun! it is a time for us to talk with kids, parents and families about the rest of the week and what God is doing in thier lives and in our lives! I know that great things happened that night even though the night did not go the wya we planned it!
So we started the week with a super long day! but it got us pretty pumped up for the rest of the week!
So tuesday rolled around and we did the same routine in the morning but tuesday theme was Jesus is my HEALER! so we got to talk with the kids about who in their lives where sick! BUt the question we asked them was "are you on Jesus's team?" it was wonderful to find out that most of my group were christians...but pray for wee steven, matthew, and corrin becuase they were the ones who were confused and didn't know if they were on Jesus' team. And pray for Corrin becuase we talked about how God can heal his dad and i know that if God does heal his dad that he will be able to see the POWER that Christ has! The verse for the day was Heb 11:1 For faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see! Tuesday's afternoon activity was mini olymics and again we prayed so much for God to stop the rain..but again it RAINED! and so we couldn't go to to the football pitches(field) to do the olymics so we went to the presbyterian church down the street and had like 12 stations of fun little games that we did! It was a great day where the kids were able to have fun and keep buliding those relationships with kids becuase once you gain their trust they TOTALLY OPEN UP TO YOU! tuesday night was not a required thing but there was a night called Shelter which is for women and it is a time to listen to a lady who had two daughters with severe physical disabilities and talk about her testimony and how God worked in her life! Her book is called Under the Rainbow--i forget her name but i will let you know later--and what is cool about shelter is that throughout the whole week in the mornings there were times for women to come in and be pampered by getting hteir hair done, getting their nails or toes done, get a message and just talk with someone for a while! Women need to know that they are loved and this was a great way to show them the LOVE OF GOD! that their Daddy loves them!
Also, throughout the whole week there were coffee mornings which was a time when anyone could come in andd get free tea and coffee and talk with someone...there was a creche(nursey) where mummies could drop their wee babies for free! Also, there was a team that reached out specifically to the old folks and went to nursing homes throughout the villages doing puppet shows, pampering and just talking!
ALSO! there was a team called streat reach which was out each morning doing stuff within the village like cleaing pub toilets and washing windows but their main focus is the youth...the kids who are out on the streets drinking and doing drugs and just being youth! So every afternoon/evening there was something for them to do! Pray that all of the relationships built will be able to grow and that there will continue to be questions raised by the youth about Jesus!
then there is clean up which goes around and cleans up people's yards and asking anyone if they needed anything done!
FINALLY! there was a door-to-door team that went out into the village and gave more gifts out and invited people to sonset supper which was on friday night and asking them about how they felt about Jesus!
so as you can see there is alot going on throughout the week!
wednesday was when we talked about Jesus being our TEAMMATE! and the verse was 1 Cor. 12:27 Together we are the body of Christ, and each one of your is part of that body! It was brilliant! Wednesday afternoon was the "party!" so we did some dances and then played more games and i had an AMAZING group of boys who loved the games and were super competive! =)
but wednesday night was GREAT! we went to GP and we did ITS A KNOCKOUT competion which is a whole field full of fun obstacle course bounce house stuff. I was on a team with Joanne(kids club MAIN leader) and a couple other guys from the kids club! It was such a blast and the point of this night is to get all of teh different churches in the area to come together and hang out so we were playing against people form church of ireland and from the presbyterian churches in the area! such a fun time!
my team ended up getting like 2nd or 3rd place! and SUCH A MIRACLE! THE RAIN CLOUDS LITTERALLY PARTED! it didn't rain until we were almost completely done with our competiion! and it was so wonderful to see the sky blue and bright ONLY above US!!!!!!!!!!!! and then there was a FULLLLLL rainbow in the sky and it was so exciting! GOD IS GOOD!
and then rebekah and i did the sumo suits when it was POURING down rain and it was so much fun! Then we stayed at GP hannging out until like midnight!
Thursday was probably the best and most important day for kids club!
this was when we talked about how Jesus is our subsitute! the verse was Romans 5:8 how God shows his love for us in this way, Christ died for us while we were still sinners and we talked aobut Jesus and the cross and O MAN you could feel the spirit and the presence of God in that place! pray that God will touch each one of the kids lives who are on the bench of life who are not christians yet but are thinking about it!
Then on thursday afternoon were supposed to do its a knockout with kids club but it POURED! so we went to GP and had a game time and during that time i got to talk with these two girls from Poland Natalia and Paulina and it was great to hear their story and they were catholic girls and i got to talk to them about what that meant to be catholic and what they thought about all of this Jesus stuff and the washbasin so i told them what i thought about life and jesus and christianity and catholicism and pray that they can bring their family on sunday to GP for our sunday night sonshine week service!
but it was great to have these kids see GP and see that church doesn't have to be an OLD building that only has a sanctuary! While i was riding home on the bus with the wee boys they were so amazing that the church had a play place and tvs and pool tables! but it was great to tell them that GOd does NOT dwell in a building but he dwells in our hearts and that is what the church really is!
Friday was the final day and i couldn't believe that it went so fast! The theme for Friday was that Jesus is teh champion and we got to talk about the RESURECTION and how we serve a RISEN SAVIOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the Verse was Heb 12:1 Now let us run the race that is before us and never give up and how we should remove anything from our lives that owuld get in the way and the sin that so easily holds us back!!!!!!!!!!!
Guys---we had TEN KIDS come to know the lord this week! it was AMAZING to hear their hearts and see how their wee lives were changed but how that also helped change the leaders lives as well!
Friday night was AMAZING!
we had athing called sonset supper where all of the families that we had been talking to that week could come and here about people whose lives had been some extreme makeovers! We had Marvin Andrews who is a football players from the Rangers team in Scotland and Alison Stewart a women who was on the streets and in jail but is now saved come and share their testimonies! GUYS GOD WAS THERE AND HE WAS WORKING AND SPEAKING THROUGH THESE PEOPLE!
there were a lot of youth there to see Marvin and he was SO passionate about his faith and had SOOOO much Faith in God and the power that He has!
Look up Marvin Andrews and ALISON STEWART's stories! You will be blessed!
guys there are so many more stories i want to tell you but rightnow i am off to BELFAST to go to a worship night with people from GP so i will write more tomorrow! but i love you all and cannot thank you enough for your prayers!
God is still moving and working!
Tomorrow night is the church service where a guy from the IRA terrorist and a preacher are talking about how their lives have been through an extreme makeover!
so pray that God can save souls tomorrow night through these testimonies!
..
U
love you all!
stay strong!
happy 4th of july!
KEEP BELIEVING!
JESUS IS ALIVE!
HE HEALS!
HAVE FAITH!
..
U
IN HIS GRIP,
megan
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