Agape Newsletter - 10-30, 2009 - Special The State of Agape Edition

Welcome into another Agape newsletter! I have just returned home from a very fruitful night camping out on Oak Mountain. I am not yet ready to share about it (via email), but am looking forward to bringing a new message to you this Sunday.

Speaking of this Sunday’s message, it will be called: The State of Agape. The gist of the message will focus on looking back to where Agape came from, where we are now, and where God seems to be aiming us. We’ll also look at a picture of the New Testament church - what made them so vibrant? What did they do with their time and money? How did they impact their cities so much more than today’s church does? This will be the second in a series of mountain top messages, as we seek God on what His specific vision and purpose for Agape is.

I can say one thing about my mountaintop trip - God gave me some exciting revelation into an area that I have never been able to teach about, because I never felt like I had God’s heart on this particular issue. Many have asked me why I have never taught on this subject before, and urged me to do so, but I honestly couldn’t until the very end of this trip, when God blew my mind on several things. I am very excited, and can’t wait to share parts of it with you Sunday!

One other thing: I want to say THANK YOU for those who helped this Wednesday night. We served almost 150 people dinner at Agape Wednesday night, the bulk of whom were not native Agapeans. I was so encouraged and elated to see all of you interact with the people that came to us for food. I saw laughter, tears, fellowship, love and conversation. It was beautiful!!!   I felt like God was saying “Home Run” to me all night about how things went. I can’t express to you how good this past Wednesday night was. For those that missed it, don’t despair. We’re going for it again in November, this time on a Saturday afternoon, so that many of our senior citizens might be able to join us.

This is from Greg, about our upcoming Live Nativity:

We are going to reach out into the community this Christmas and one way we are going to do this is by having a Live nativity.

We need volunteers for:

Choir – all ages welcome

Nativity – Youth thru adults

Construction- nativity

Greeters – All ages (Hot Chocolate will be involved)

Proposed dates and times December 16th Wednesday – December 19th Saturday 6-8pm.

We will have a Christmas celebration on Sunday December 20th with a Christmas meal open to all who attended Live nativity.

Also: Praise God for Laurie’s Dad: (here’s her update): Thank you so much for praying for my Dad.  He had an appointment this morning and got some GREAT news!  The tests show that there is NO cancer in any place other than his thyroid.  This is a HUGE praise!!!The Lord graciously allowed this tumor to be found in a routine check-up.  Praise the Lord for the nurse that felt the tumor.  The doctor was amazed that she detected it.  We are sending her a big thank you!Please continue to pray for him on Monday, November 2nd as he has his thyroid removed.  Blessings,  Laurie

That’s all for now,

See you Sunday!

Chase

Do Justice….Love Mercy.

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