June 2010

Heather and I send our love along with some Irish blessings. We’ve had a wonderful month with stellar events and great results! Thanks for all you do to help us do what we do!!

First, the church enjoyed First Communion and Confirmation services. This year was even more special for us than usual as Hannah was in the Confirmation class and graduation… she had the highest grades, too. I spent 5 months with the kids teaching them a “Foundations of Faith” course. It was fantastic! For an hour every Friday we spent our time together working through basic doctrines such as: The Divinity of Jesus, Resurrection of the Dead and Rewards, Baptisms, the Second Coming of Christ, etc. It’s a time of teaching and Q and A that the kids and I all enjoy. Graduation, then, is on a Sunday service with many special invitees. The new teens sit up front, sing special songs and have hands laid on them… very cool! Afterwards, we had a big party at our house for Hannah and our special guests, with BBQ and a huge 50 ft. slide. WOW! Unforgettable!

Also, Heather’s (always) incredible Ladies’ Conference with this year’s guest minister, Judy Jacobs, was amazing! It was such a pleasure to meet Minister Judy and her husband, Jamie Tuttle. They were so humble and down to earth. They were also so very anointed. They sang, prophesied and prayed until the glory came down on every service. On the Friday night service many ladies received the infilling of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-4). As Judy ministered at the altar, she called out many particular ailments. One such call was for someone who had just received a “bad report” from the doctor. A precious young woman responded to the call, sobbing. She had just been called by her doctor to come in immediately to the hospital as her blood results were sooo bad following kidney failure. After just a minute or so of prayer, you should have seen her face! It was as if she walked out of darkness into the light! Her countenance was lit up like one of the chandeliers in the room… WOW. She was smiling and testifying that God’s healing power had just gone through her and she knew she was healed. She came back the next morning saying that she had just gone running! Later she sent our office an email explaining how she had nearly died in November and that she and her husband had explained to their three daughters of 13, 10 and 8 years that she could go to heaven at any time. They were going to have to move out of their two bedroom flat in order to accommodate the massive dialysis machine they were going to have to put in the room. Now she was shouting from the roof top that she would “…live and not die, and declare the works of the Lord!” (Psalm 118: 17). It was truly an amazing weekend, and an amazing month!