Happy Birthday Michael

Can you believe it? This little boy is "15" today! Wow how time flies. Michael was born Sept 30, 1993 at 6:50pm at the St. Bernardine's Hospital in San Bernardino, CA. He weighed in at just a hair under 9 pounds. This guy had a great personality from day one. Always making people laugh. He is a joy to have, wouldn't trade him for the world! Happy Birthday Michael! Keep your heart open and God will use you if YOU allow him to. Love you. Michael at the age of 3 and 14 and 15 with his new electric guitar. He plays at Hope Center and is becoming a great musician.

Wednesday Night Kids Decipleship

On Wednesday night we have classes for the kids instead of classes on Sundays (on Sunday we have Kids church) like probably most churches. We want to have classes for the kids so we can be on a more personal level and teach more one on one in small group sessions. We teach bible stories, lessons for life and memorize scriptures. We have Missions Wednesday once a quarter where we learn about a country, the missionary there, type of foods they eat and their culture. We have rotation Wednesday every other week where one class would do the game, one would do the craft and one would do the lesson. Since we have started this, our attendance has went up which is a good thing..We love teaching and knowing that the kids want to be there. They're not only learning but having fun at the same time.

Greatest kids in the world.

Hope Center has some of the greatest kids a church could ever have. We had our annual Children's Revival with Bro. Jeremy Joyce which proved to be successful as always. We did our usual planning and getting things done and fighting demons along the way and I thought why? The devil knew we were going to be successful and he was trying hard to block us and do anything to get in our way. We had a great outreach team on Saturday of the revival weekend and Bro. Joyce went along with us and that night we had 105 kids...WoW! Praise God!! 10 kids received the Holy Ghost that weekend! And we are still reaping from the harvest. This last Sunday night we had 3 kids get baptised.....And....we had 4 more people received the gift of the Holy Ghost..I am so thankful for the blessings of God. I could go on and on and on.. Thank you Jesus!

As The Deer

As the deer panteth for the water So my soul longeth after Thee You alone are my heart's desire And I long to worship Thee

You alone are my strength, my shield To You alone may my spirit yield You alone are my heart's desire And I long to worship Thee

You're my friend and You are my brother Even though You are a king I love You more than any other So much more than anything

I want You more than gold or silver Only You can satisfy You alone are the real joy giver And the apple of my eye

Thankful

I am so thankful. I don't think there's a soul out there that does not know about Metrolink's tragic accident that occurred on Friday afternoon Sept 12, 2008. The death toll is now up to 26. My husband is a conductor for Metrolink Rail and is currently working on train 319 out of San Bernardino. He has worked many times with Rob Sanchez, the engineer that was killed in the accident. It is a very dangerous job..everyday you risk your life and the lives of others..and everyday I pray the hand protection on my husband. My husband is great man but he needs God, he needs to be back in church where he belongs. You gotta have the want to! Many times at church I have went to the front for prayer in his sted. Please pray that God gives him... the want to. Bro. Carl Balestero wrote a book..a great book titled "You gotta have the want to". If you haven't read...Read it!

Praise

John 4

23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him in spirit and in truth.
24 God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

I love to worship Him. I want to worship Him in spirit and.... in truth. I want to lead the people in worship in spirit and in truth. I can only imagine what worship would be like if everyone worshipped in spirit and in truth. I was praying one morning and God spoke to me...We must follow the leader. I knew it from from God because that very night pastor spoke about following the leader. We must come unto Him as little children and we all know that little children love to play "Follow the leader"!! Imagine all the people in the congregation following the leader. What a service that would be! Something to think about.