Let me begin by apologizing for not sending out a prayer
update last week! When things get supper busy it seems the first thing to get
put on the back burner is prayer. Unfortunately this is the exact opposite of
the way things should be. This is not the kind of pastor I want to be and it is
not the kind of church Grace Fellowship is. As you pray with us in our
adventures always pray that I would be the kind of pastor and man that would
resort to prayer first in all things!
The past two weeks have been overwhelming and blessed in
many ways!
In our family we celebrated Joshua’s birthday last week and
Kim’s parents came down for the weekend. It was great to see them! Joshua is
our middle son and he is such a blessing. The older they get the more
individuals traits come out in them and it is so fun getting to know them. This
next week we will celebrate Maxwell’s birthday as well. If you would pray for
my boys! Pray that they would grow up with a hunger to know God! To serve God! To
abandon all things for Him! Pray that they wouldn’t get lost in the shuffle and
hustle and bustle that planting a church campus can be.
For those of you who have known me for some time, you are
well aware that I am an abstract thinker, a visionary and dreamer. However I am
not one who is the best at the administrative details of implementing those
visions and dreams. So this has been one of my biggest prayer requests as we
get closer to the launch of Grace Fellowship North. This has never been more
felt by me that over the last two weeks. God is true to His word though and He
has ordained my steps. Several Sunday ago I preached a mini sermon series at Grace
Fellowships original campus and out of that I was approached by a woman named
Bette Moser. She felt like God had told her to come help us with the new
campus. So Sunday we met and she shared some of her heart and story and it was
quickly evident that God was behind this teaming. Bette is the executive
director for HomeAid Houston www.homeaidhouston.org
. In short she is God’s gift to me! Taking so many of my weaknesses which are
her strengths and bringing her at just the right time. Lord bless Bette and
everything she does! Pray for her as she has to deal with me on a regular basis
now! J
I am excited for what God has in store!
Continue to pray for our location we have several options
but we want Gods best and right place and will settle for nothing less! Pray
that He opens doors to lead us there and closes all others.
Begin to pray for May 8th and 19th as
we will have information and vision casting meetings to prospective volunteers
and leaders.
We love you all!
Thank you for laying a spiritual foundation ahead of us by
bathing our efforts and us in prayer!
Jeff, Kim, Max, Joshua, Tate
