10/25/09

Greetings Team ~

The word that best sums up yesterday's services is...WOW!! What a blessing. The Spirit was moving, the people were singing and praising, and the message was great!

I received an extra blessing... a wonderful gift for Pastor's Appreciation Month! I've been at the church for almost 9 years and have never been recognized before, so it came as a complete surprise! I was given a stay at a very nice Inn in Medford Or, and a ticket to a play at the Theatre in Ashland. It's going to be a great trip!

A third blessing...it was really nice to have Travis (& Eva Lynn) and Kelly Lund in church. They were such a huge part of our team for so long, it felt right having them there when I received that recognition. It was too bad that Matthew wasn't there.

Let's keep praying so we have more weeks like this one!
Please pray over the following songs:

Meet With Me
Hear Our Praises
God is Good
I Will Rise
Healing Grace
How Great is Our God / How Great Thou Art
Day By Day

Scripture - Psalm 119: 169-175

I'm really looking forward to the services this week...going to be good!
Have a great week, staying focused on God and handing all the "junk" over to him.

Be Blessed!
Matt

10/18/09

Belated Greetings ~

Better late than never...right?
I went to the Canadian Tenors concert on Tuesday night (which was absolutely fantastic), so I couldn't post that night.

Also, things were a bit up in the air earlier this week. First, we had a guitar player so I picked songs, then we didn't have a guitar player, so I picked different songs, then we didn't have one again, so I changed the songs back, now we have one again, so we are back to the other songs.
Speaking of those songs...let's pray over them and the services this week:

My Savior Lives
Your Grace is Enough
You Are Holy
Meet With Me (New song)
Hungry
Here I Am To Worship
Something Heavenly

Scripture - 2 Cor 1:3-5

Also pray for the following:

Kevin ~ Health concerns
Matthew ~ Health concerns
Dawn ~ Health concerns
Bradley
Night in Bethlehem
Church Leadership / Finances

Have a great week everyone!
Be Blessed,
Matt

10/11/09 Update

Hey gang ~

I'm going to have to make some changes to the services this week. Matthew was diagnosed with swine flu today, so he won't be with us this weekend. The first set was really guitar driven, so I'm dropping all those and doing Ah, Lord God and He Has Made Me Glad instead.
I tried to get Bradley and Ross to play, but neither of them is available.
God is good, and it will all go well. Please pray for a quick recovery for Matthew, and that the rest of his family won't get it too.
Please pray for my mom too, she fell yesterday and is in a lot of pain...lots of cuts and bruises, but no broken bones, praise God!

Be Blessed!
Matt

10/11/09

Well hello there ~

I'm still discouraged about losing last week's blog, so I'm going to keep this one short too.
The PCC banquet went really well on Friday. The whole program was really cool, and I hope the Center raised a lot of money.
Please pray over songs and services this week:

My Savior Lives
My Redeemer Lives
It is You
My Chains Are Gone
Amazed
Healing Grace
Draw Me Close

Remember we are meeting at 5:00 pm the next 2 weeks.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Matt