April 2011

I AM BACK

2011 is already going fast, and I cannot catch up. Sorry to be so long in getting out my newsletter.
A lot has happened in the past couple of months, and it is hard to believe it is April already.
My dad passed away last month, I have been partnering with a church to develop leadership principles that will help to train leaders to be Godly leaders in our society. I helped conduct a seminar last week to train twenty leaders on how to be God focused, people valuing, and people empowering.
God is continuing to open doors to mentor the next generation for Christ.
Just last night as I was reading in Psalm 71, verse 18 stood out to me, and I sensed God emphasizing through the scripture His purpose for me at this time. Let me quote the verse for you.
"Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, oh God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your might to all who are to come."
God continues to increase my passion to impact the next generation for Him.
To mentor, train, and encourage those God is raising up to serve Christ.
I am taking on new students each year in this process. Please be in prayer as new opportunities open up.

Any support you can offer helps to make this possible.

Celebration

We are quickly approaching the celebration of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
There is no event that offers more hope than the resurrection of Jesus.
Life, with its tragedies and disappointments, has a way of robbing us of the joys we once knew, and often it taints those things that we once enjoyed.
In Genesis, we read about Adam and Eve, the first couple of creation, and how they enjoyed all that God had made. But then they ate of the forbidden fruit and now all was marred and tainted by sin.
Our only hope for real joy is to be resurrected in Christ, who is the Resurrection and the Life!
Only He can give us life abundant and free!
Only He can restore us to what God intended for us in the beginning.
(Fellowship with Him)
Life here has tainted some of the things I once enjoyed, and I don't know if I will enjoy those things again. But I do know the joy and peace of knowing and walking with God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
When it is all said and done, I want it to be the joy of walking with Christ that matters most.
All else will fade and fail, but Jesus Christ will remain. And so will His Truth!

Do be in prayer as we are wanting to give more time to this ministry. Please pray for the finances to help make this happen.

Thank you. Pastor Rick, Pastor of a church without walls.