New things!

Yesterday we held our first ever Bilingual Grace 101 class! I have to say that it went off better than I could have imagined and I left super excited to see two campuses coming together and functioning as one church was pretty awesome! Jim Leggett our senior pastor taught the English version while I taught the Spanish version. In the Spanish version we had Brazilians, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and even a native from Chicago. TO listen to them share their testimonies was a real treat!

Praise God! As we seek to be a "House of Prayer for all Nations" God is bringing the nations to us!

Praise the Lord we have hired someone part time to lead our children's ministry! Rene will be working with our original campus children's ministry staff and will help us get up to speed in the children's area! We will be announcing to the community our children's ministry launch on Easter Sunday so please be praying that God will help us get all the wrinkles worked out before then!

On March 9th we will be hosting a potluck to celebrate the last Sunday of our "Fight for Your Family" sermon series through the book of Joshua! At the potluck we will be sharing testimonies from our community groups on what God has done in the lives of individuals as they have been applying what they have been learning from the book of Joshua. Please pray that this will be a time where people invite friends and neighbors. Where they feel a true since of community! Where we can celebrate and worship God by hearing of all he has done! Pray that it will strengthen our community groups and that those who still need to find a group will leave that day with a groups invitation to attend.

Pray that lives would be changed! That people would come to know the Lord! Pray for revival in our hearts so that we can see Spiritual Awakening in the community God has called us too!

We love you all and so appreciate your prayers!

Jeff, Kim, Max, Joshua & Tate

Revival!

It is hard to imagine that we have met for six weeks now as a North campus!

IT has truly been fun preaching through the book of Joshua and we are hearing from so many who are enjoying diving deep into the word! In ways I feel like its cheating, any time you preach the word it does all the work! It says it will never return void so why more preachers don't just preach the word and instead choose to be "topical" or "relevant" rather than invoking the power of God's written word which has given us the promise to be effective is beyond me! 

As we begin this week I would like to thank you all for your prayers! My back is feeling so much better and I am finally feeling better after having the flu last week. If you could please continue praying for our three boys who all had the flu and for Kim that this week we could find complete healing and wholeness in the Dietz home!

One of the goals that Grace Fellowship has set as a whole for 2014 is that we want to seek God for revival. Please pray that we would humble ourselves enough to see God’s revival break out here! Pray that we would understand that revival breaks out amongst believers and what most of us think is revival is truly spiritual awakening, when the masses come to Jesus. Pray that we would look inwardly and allow God to reveal sin that needs to be confessed, that He would break our hearts and our pride and humble us that we might be revived by His Spirit! Then and only then can we see the true heart of Christ go forth into the community and see lives truly changed! 

As you pray these things for us I pray for each of you! That you would see revival in your lives!

We love you all and need and appreciate your prayers so desperately!

Jeff, Kim, Max, Joshua and Tate

Tomorrow begins month #2

Well we have officially held a whole months worth of services and God is good! He is already starting to reveal Himself in little ways that have blessed me so much!

Today many of or community groups met and I had the privilege to sit in on one of our members group and then attend the one Kim and I will attend! God is good and has orchestrated the right people for the right groups and will continue to do so!

As you pray please pray for these groups! That they would flourish! That they would be true community!

Also pray for Kim and I. Kim's health is much better aside from her normal auto immune issues, however I hurt my back 3 weeks ago and have been trying to push through but it is only getting worse. Please pray for total healing in a miraculous way that our baby congregation can see that will reveal Gods power and might! Also today I started getting a cold (hopefully not the flu) and the two combined are getting the best of me right now and 5:00am comes awfully early even when your feeling your best!

I know God has done great things already and wants to do so much more! The enemy doesn't want this and so I ask you to intercede that God would manifest in power and might!

Thank you! We love and need you all in our lives and ministry!

Jeff, Kim, Max, Joshua and Tate