Top 5 Reasons Amadeo Now Has Two Services

1. So that people can worship corporately in one service and then serve in classrooms on the same day.

2. So that we can work towards having more consistent teachers for the older kids.

3. Because when you give more people options - more people opt. It provides a more flexible schedule.

4. Because we believe bigger is not necessarily better. Intimacy is not the enemy. We want to be the biggest small church around.

5. Because we are constantly trying to find new ways to love and serve people.


New People: Do you like getting up later or going home earlier? Now you have a choice!

Regular Attenders or Members: We invite the regular attenders and members to consider "sitting & serving" each Sunday. One of our core-values is serving. So, consider serving one service through welcoming, setting up or tearing down, sitting next to somebody new, helping with worship, or serving in the kids classes and then participating in corporate worship during the opposite service.

Geneva Study Bible
{5} But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the {f} gift of Christ.

(5) He teaches us that we indeed are all one body, and that all good gifts proceed from Christ alone, who reigns in heaven having mightily conquered all his enemies, from where he heaps all gifts upon his Church. But yet nonetheless these gifts are differently and variously divided according to his will and pleasure, and therefore every man ought to be content with that measure that God has given him, and to bestow it to the common profit of the whole body.

We evangelicals need those who love the wisdom of the word, and those who have faith for praying for healing and wholeness. We Spirit-led folks need those rooted in ancient traditions to remind us of the cloud of witnesses who surround us - who by God's grace stood exactly where we did and fought the good fight. We, who are of the fundamentalist evangelical world need those committed to organic relationships, and need the courage to walk by faith - not despising the prophets of our age who may sing of the glory of God, and the suffering of the saints whereby we all will enter the kingdom.

WE DO GREAT HARM to the local body to cloister ourselves according to our gifting - we need each other. We need those annoying Bible-believing folk to point us to the word, and we need those charismatic pentecostal people who are pleading and interceding on our behalf with great faith. We need those courageous evangelical folk to push out outside of the evangelical ghetto. We need teachers, and pastors, and prophets, evangelists, and all the saints equipped for the work of the kingdom.

Labels: Diversity and Unity in Spiritual Giftings

The Garden is a abloom with fruit,
new fruit, new friends, new converts, new blood...
and still I will fertilize,
and allow nature to prune,
and watch with glory the beauty
of His fine arts.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self h​is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 ​as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

And Hebrews 12:3-4

Do Not Grow Weary

3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or ​fainthearted. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

They are looking into getting a building - and starting a community center. Pray that God's hand would guide them and protect them. Continue to pray for Anthony and Jared as they are serving in a community center - starting a youth group - and serving like mad the local church over there.

Labels: Northern Ireland Missions

“Remember the prisoners as if chained with them - those who are mistreated - since you yourselves are in the body also.” Hebrews 13:3

IN TANZANIA



In Tanzania over 25 Albino's have been killed since March because the witch-doctors use the bones of Albino's (who they hunt) in their potions for their magic. It is quite scary really - and many of the Albino's have been hiding out on an island off of Tanzania to be safe.

See article here


IN ZIMBABWE

In Zimbabwe Mugabe has been having his thugs beat, hack and kill white plantation owners - claiming that white people should be chased out of his country.


"Since the land seizures began a decade ago, some 4,000 owners (virtually all white) of Zimbabwe’s most productive farms have been forced out, along with their 320,000 workers (almost all black) and their families, amounting to 1m-2m people. Although around two-thirds of the land has been allocated to 140,000 poor black families, the rest has gone to Mr Mugabe’s relatives and comrades, most of whom have little or no interest in farming. Vast tracts of fertile farmland now lie fallow; agricultural output has slumped. One of Africa’s biggest food exporters is now one of its main recipients of food aid.

Of 6,500 white commercial farmers in 1980, when Mr Mugabe came to power, only about 500 remain."

See whole article here: Mugabe

See other article here





Mugabe's people have also persecuted churches that have prayer for peace:

CHURCHES RAIDED

"Some churches, which had taken in these homeless and destitute people, experienced police raids in the middle of the night. The refugees were then forced onto open trucks and not seen since. Zimbabwean police attacked 400 women who gathered for an all-night prayer meeting and severely assaulted them, 38 were so severely injured that they had to be hospitalised. The focus of this womens’ prayer meeting was to pray for peace. Pastors have been arrested for “subversive prayers.” Many Christians have been arrested, tortured and murdered."

See article here: Click Here

Labels: social justice

I read the last post I wrote and deleted it. Ugggh! Forgive me, for those who read it. Horrible really.

God is working on me.

Ben

We are doing our best to learn to love our neighbors - asking God to honor our poorest attempts at being good neighbors.