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!