Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Outreach . . .

We are in a very busy month for outreach in Modesto. The Nativity Story event has come and gone and we are still glowing over the success of this event. The way everyone embraced this event made my heart feel good. Individuals young and old invited their neighbors to the movie. To see our congregation name above the door of the theater was cool. My hats off to all those wo were busy inviting but unsuccessful in getting someone to say yes. It took a lot of no answers to find all the yes answers that filled the theater.
The push to help fifty familes has begun. We are adopting fifty families with needs for the holidays. Help is meal boxes and presents for the kids. Over 200 kids will get presents for Christmas because of this program. All of these families are touched by the hands of someone extending Jesus to them for the holidays.
We launched our "book" program this past Sunday. Davis Park is heading toward publishing book concerned with how Jesus has touched the lives of our members. We are seeking your life story, and how the path has changed since you bumped into Jesus. This book will be used as an outreach tool for people in our community. We want people to be able to see how active Jesus and God are in the lives of people at Davis Park.
Family Promise is coming!!!!! December 31 the Families will be here. We will bring in the New Year providing care and serving families in a special way this New Years Eve. If you want to celebrate the New Year with us at the church building let me know. It should be exciting!!!!

make a difference for Jesus today

Buddy

Friday, December 01, 2006

The Nativity Story . . .

All of the planning is over, most of the tasks associated with the project are about complete and now we sit and wait for the event. This is one of largest evangelistic efforts we have attempted. Tomorrow we will pack in 355 people into the Riverbank Galaxy theater. 250 of these people will be our guests. Most of these guests are not Christians. Neighbors who are close enough for our members to ask to come and watch the movie with them. We will invite them all to our services on Sunday. We hope and pray that many of them will come. We hope and pray that many will hear the gospel message for the first time in a way that will cause them to act on it. Pray hard for them, that God will start working on them today for tomorrow and Sunday.