Your Favorite Praise or Worship Song?

What is your favorite praise or worship song? You can list a few if you would like. They can be traditional or contemporary. I would like us to use people's favorites as often as possible in worship so share with me your favorite.

Revival

Of those responding 62% said they planned to attend the Revival while 48% on another poll said they had never been to a revival.

A revival can be many things. It can be an old sawdust camp meeting where the focus is on reaching the lost and saving souls. An awesome event if you have never experienced this type of service.

Our revival will be a time of renewal (although the Gospel is compelling and some may receive Jesus for sure). Renewal revivals are all about renewing our Spirit and uplifting the church to inspire them to be more and more faithful to Jesus.

Won't you attend our revival on July 27-30? The services start at 7 pm each night.

How about some comments about what you have experienced in revival services? There was a long comment in the E-News last week and I will try to cut and paste it for this blog.

Homecoming

Of those who responded 95% said the Homecoming was exactly what was needed.

Most everyone I have spoken to believes it was a success and that it was a great day!

How about some comments about the Homecoming?

Bowie Street Reach '08 (7-12)

Tonight I attended most of the Saturday night worship service which this week was led by the youth from Street Reach.

WE HAVE YOUTH WE CAN BE PROUD TO CALL OURS!

I have visited their work site all week and have found them working and being friendly. I have heard the people they have helped sing their praises. I had a young women stop her run through the neighborhood to ask questions and she was full of praises for their efforts.

Now, tonight, they end their week in worship and it was very moving and Spirit filled. I'm tickled to say I am from Mt. Oak - because the youth are top notch!

The praise team brought us into the presence of God tonight. Between some of the songs several members of the team read Scripture or prayed or called us to present ourselves to God and it was powerful. They lead worship tomorrow and I know they will be filled with the Spirit from this week.

Plan to be here to say - well done - to the youth for this week of mission. Thanks also to those who led them this week. Not only their leaders but others came to the work sites and worked!

God bless you all and remember to be a blessing to someone today.

Bowie Street Reach '08 (7-11)

I wondered how renting a bowling alley would work. But last night we filled the bowling alley to capacity and then some. People had to wait for a turn at a lane.

The band was awesome and I saw a number of people touched by the worship time the whole night. I was singing along with them as I took my turn at bowling (was that an adventure - shoes and duck pin balls from 1971 - ten pin ball from 1976 - and not bowling for 20 years - all good excuses for the way I bowled).

I met a number of people and shared some time with them in between games and and after I put my toys away. How about sharing some of your experiences at the Bowling alley.

Bowie Street Reach '08 (7-10)

Monday, the team started to split up to clean houses whether it was cleaning front yard or backyard. The first house we went to was the only house we went to. This lady had problems with the plants and the tree. The bad thing was that she was getting lots of complaints form the city. When we got to the lady's house, we split up in to two teams. One team went into the backyard, another team went with Dione. The team that stayed was with Jason and went into the backyard. The first thing we did was remove any loose or broken bricks, then we pulled out tons of weeds and trying to get the lawnmowers working. As we were doing that Dione's team came to help us out. Plus we got gloves for working. Later on we went to the front yard to pull weeds from the ground, and pull branches and vines from the tree. While we were busy working, the lady called up Bowie Blade to tell them what we were doing for her and then took a picture. Afterwards, we had a lunch break and got back to work the lady was so happy we did that for her. After working six whole hours, we went to church. While we were at church, some of us went to other houses to take a shower. When we got back, we had dinner. After dinner we started sports nights.

Sports Night went really well. Everyone was divided into seven teams. In the end a team which was a very good team named Team DAVID won the entire night there were a lot of sports such as Knock Out, Ultimate Frisbee, Penalty Kick, Hula Hoops and a whole bunch of other sports. To make a long story short Monday went very well but the best has yet to come.

- David Mensah

Bowie Street Reach '08 (7-9)

Today the team finished the job they started Monday and the one they started Tuesday and they started a fourth job (they did one job yesterday complete).

Here are some pictures that they have taken.
http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm94/JnelPhoto/Street%20Reach%2008/

Dinner and a Movie was a great success with 100 plus people attending. Several people asked for this to be repeated.

Jason and Dione talked with me tonight and they both said the youth were doing a marvelous job. The only complaint we hear is about the heat, not the work.

If you haven't been out to the work sites yet, please come out Thursday or Friday.

Bowie Street Reach '08 (7-8) #3

I visited the Street Reach team today around lunch time. Part of the team was finishing the job they started Monday and part of the team had started another job.

They continue to work hard (most of them - lol) and they continue to draw praise from those they help and from the neighbors who see how they are improving some troubled yards.

Keep them in your prayers... They are learning to use powertools and rakes and all sorts of things - lol -

Bowie Street Reach '08 (7-8) #2

From Saturday to today (Tuesday) great things have happened. The youth are really excited and full of energy. They have been serving from the first day. They cleaned out the attic of the old parsonage (now the office building). They set up and ran the games at the homecoming picnic. They have bent over backwards in serving a family that is in need in our community. Great things are happening and I am so proud of the whole team. More to come! God is Good!

Dione

Bowie Street Reach '08 (7-8)

The team left this morning and according to the plan will split into two teams and work on two homes. I will visit both sites and try to bring you the latest news.

By the way, if you visit the site and want to tag something onto one of these posts - you can do so with the anonymous tag but please leave your name in the post.

The youth - some of them - read this each night in the Upper Room. It would bless them to hear others pat them on the back for the work they are doing.

While you're reading this - pray for John Davis who is near death. Also we have two members that I know of that are out of work. Pray for them. Pastor Charlie is ministering to a friend who is facing serious surgery today. Pray for him and them. And finally, today is Best Years, pray for those who gather and those who prepare for them. Thank you.