Showing posts with label Sundays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sundays. Show all posts
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Record-breaking Sunday Morning Attendance!
We just had yet another record-breaking Sunday morning attendance - 67! If we counted the unborn children in the service, we had 72! This morning I preached a Sermon called "What Does the Lord Require of You?"
Monday, August 9, 2010
Record-breaking Sunday Morning Attendance!
60 in church this morning. New record! If we counted the unborn children in the service, it would've been 64!
Monday, July 19, 2010
29th Sunday of 2010
Another great Sunday! We had 48 in the morning service including 3 visitors from my personal door-to-door soul-winning on Thursday - Saturday and 1 repeat visitor from last week's soul-winning. In the morning service I preached a sermon called "Hypocrisy" from Matthew 23 and many other scriptures. As always we had a lot of people out soul-winning all afternoon with many people saved. Justin and I were in Central Phoenix knocking doors for 3.5 hours. I had 2 people saved in Spanish, and he had 4 people saved in English. What a receptive area!
In the evening service our attendance was a little down from usual with 31 in attendance. I preached a sermon called "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself" from Isaiah 5.
I can't wait for the camping trip this Thursday!
In the evening service our attendance was a little down from usual with 31 in attendance. I preached a sermon called "Hell Hath Enlarged Herself" from Isaiah 5.
I can't wait for the camping trip this Thursday!
Monday, July 12, 2010
28th Sunday of 2010
This Sunday morning service we had 49 in attendance, and I preached a sermon entitled "Through Faith We Understand." It was especially exciting to have a visitor in the service whose door I had just knocked the night before. In the afternoon, we had 20 different people from our church go out soul-winning. I personally won 2 people to the Lord.
In the evening service we had 34 in attendance, and I preached a sermon on "Biblical Friendship." I started out in Job 6, explaining why we shouldn't be a "fair-weather friend" the way that Job described his friends in that chapter. Then I explained the importance of having the right friends and being the right kind of friend.
Scott and Chris S. had a visitor in the evening service from their soul-winning efforts. Great job, guys!
In the evening service we had 34 in attendance, and I preached a sermon on "Biblical Friendship." I started out in Job 6, explaining why we shouldn't be a "fair-weather friend" the way that Job described his friends in that chapter. Then I explained the importance of having the right friends and being the right kind of friend.
Scott and Chris S. had a visitor in the evening service from their soul-winning efforts. Great job, guys!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
4th Sunday of 2010 (comments are now open)
I'm not sure why, but my blog wasn't allowing comments before. Now comments are open.
We had 44 in church this morning and 15-20 out soul-winning in the afternoon. I preached this morning about how Jesus and his disciples preached the Gospel to all the towns and small villages in Judaea during his earthly ministry, something that is mentioned MANY times in the 4 gospels.
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1188521836105870276
After hours and hours of soul-winning, our church collectively had 29 people saved today! Our attendance in Sunday night church was 34.
A 15 year-old guy in our church, Gabriel, got saved and baptized 21 days ago (Chris and Victor knocked his door) and has been out door-to-door soul-winning with people from our church on 10 of the 21 days he's been saved! Only at Faithful Word! haha
This coming Saturday is our Small Town Soul-winning Marathon in Kearny, AZ! Listening to the above sermon from this morning will explain why and what we do.
We use Google Earth satellite images to see which streets have houses, and then we hand out street maps to everybody that are printed from Microsoft Streets and Trips. Then people report back once they have completed their map and we mark it off on the big map of the whole town.
Kearny is the biggest town we've done so far. The other five we did were towns ranging in size from a population of 1,500 - 2,500. Kearny is a little bit larger than that (the population is over 3,000), but the houses are close together.
On 3 of our marathons we completed the whole town in one day. On the other 2, just a few of us had to go back on another day to pick up the few streets we had missed.
We have some people come for an hour or two, some who come for half the day, and usually about half come for "the long haul!" We're trying to do 4 per year, but we skipped one at the end of 2009 because we were so busy. I'm excited about getting back into it, and I think this is going to be a very good town for it.
Here's a great website to get demographic and statistical info on towns:
http://www.city-data.com
You'll be shocked how much info there is! It tells you every possible stat about any town in America: population, income, ethnicity, even how they vote! It's pretty interesting, and it helps you get a feel for the town.
We had 44 in church this morning and 15-20 out soul-winning in the afternoon. I preached this morning about how Jesus and his disciples preached the Gospel to all the towns and small villages in Judaea during his earthly ministry, something that is mentioned MANY times in the 4 gospels.
http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1188521836105870276
After hours and hours of soul-winning, our church collectively had 29 people saved today! Our attendance in Sunday night church was 34.
A 15 year-old guy in our church, Gabriel, got saved and baptized 21 days ago (Chris and Victor knocked his door) and has been out door-to-door soul-winning with people from our church on 10 of the 21 days he's been saved! Only at Faithful Word! haha
This coming Saturday is our Small Town Soul-winning Marathon in Kearny, AZ! Listening to the above sermon from this morning will explain why and what we do.
We use Google Earth satellite images to see which streets have houses, and then we hand out street maps to everybody that are printed from Microsoft Streets and Trips. Then people report back once they have completed their map and we mark it off on the big map of the whole town.
Kearny is the biggest town we've done so far. The other five we did were towns ranging in size from a population of 1,500 - 2,500. Kearny is a little bit larger than that (the population is over 3,000), but the houses are close together.
On 3 of our marathons we completed the whole town in one day. On the other 2, just a few of us had to go back on another day to pick up the few streets we had missed.
We have some people come for an hour or two, some who come for half the day, and usually about half come for "the long haul!" We're trying to do 4 per year, but we skipped one at the end of 2009 because we were so busy. I'm excited about getting back into it, and I think this is going to be a very good town for it.
Here's a great website to get demographic and statistical info on towns:
http://www.city-data.com
You'll be shocked how much info there is! It tells you every possible stat about any town in America: population, income, ethnicity, even how they vote! It's pretty interesting, and it helps you get a feel for the town.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
3rd Sunday of 2010
47 in attendance at church in the morning, 30 in the evening service, 44 saved through door-to-door soul-winning (that is an all time new record!) and 5 baptized after the service! In the am I preached on "Stepping Out in Faith," and in the pm I preached a sermon called "Only One Can Be Right."
Also one of the guys who got saved through soul-winning and baptized 2 weeks ago has been out soul-winning more than once this week himself with Victor who won him to the Lord. Saved, then baptized, then soul-winning! The cycle is complete!!!
Also, another man who has been going to our church for a couple of weeks now is going soul-winning for his first time with Brother Dave on Wednesday afternoon before the service.
This week I traveled to Washington DC and Virginia during the first half of the week, and the latter half of the week I stayed in AZ the whole time. On Saturday I had all 5 kids on my hands because my wife was taking her concealed weapon permit the entire day (8am-5pm). I decided to take all the kids to Sedona, a deer farm in Northern AZ, and Montezuma's Castle (a National Monument off the I-17). We left at about 5 in the morning and returned at about 6 in the evening.
We also brought along 2 friends from church: Richie Symes and Scott Brooke
Also one of the guys who got saved through soul-winning and baptized 2 weeks ago has been out soul-winning more than once this week himself with Victor who won him to the Lord. Saved, then baptized, then soul-winning! The cycle is complete!!!
Also, another man who has been going to our church for a couple of weeks now is going soul-winning for his first time with Brother Dave on Wednesday afternoon before the service.
This week I traveled to Washington DC and Virginia during the first half of the week, and the latter half of the week I stayed in AZ the whole time. On Saturday I had all 5 kids on my hands because my wife was taking her concealed weapon permit the entire day (8am-5pm). I decided to take all the kids to Sedona, a deer farm in Northern AZ, and Montezuma's Castle (a National Monument off the I-17). We left at about 5 in the morning and returned at about 6 in the evening.
We also brought along 2 friends from church: Richie Symes and Scott Brooke
Monday, January 11, 2010
2nd Sunday of 2010
Before I get into Sunday, on Wednesday (1/6/10), we had 31 in the service, 7 saved in the afternoon through door-knocking, and 4 people baptized after the service (3 from the door-knocking).
This Sunday our attendance was 44 in the morning service and 31 in the evening service. I preached on "The Doctrine of Baptisms" in the morning & "Changing the Meaning of Words" in the evening. Most of our church people went out soul-winning throughout the afternoon & we had 22 people saved total. Also, the 3 who got baptized on Wednesday night were back again this Sunday.
In the last week, I drove through 9 states: AZ, CA, AR, MS, AL, GA, TN, SC, NC. I drove about 2,575 miles. I slept in the car 2 nights and another night on a beanbag in an airport. What a crazy week!
This Sunday our attendance was 44 in the morning service and 31 in the evening service. I preached on "The Doctrine of Baptisms" in the morning & "Changing the Meaning of Words" in the evening. Most of our church people went out soul-winning throughout the afternoon & we had 22 people saved total. Also, the 3 who got baptized on Wednesday night were back again this Sunday.
In the last week, I drove through 9 states: AZ, CA, AR, MS, AL, GA, TN, SC, NC. I drove about 2,575 miles. I slept in the car 2 nights and another night on a beanbag in an airport. What a crazy week!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
First Sunday of 2010
45 people attended the Sunday morning service today. I preached a sermon entitled "First Pure, then Peaceable." We had 15-20 people out soul-winning in the afternoon between the services, and tonight in church we'll find out how many people got saved. I personally had 2 people saved while out soul-winning with my son John and one of our other church members, Dave Carls. Right now I'm watching the kids while my wife is out soul-winning with Amanda.
We had a great New Year's Eve service and heard sermons from some of the men of our church: Matthew Stucky,Dave Berzins, and Brett Riley. We also played Scattergories, Ticket 2 Ride, and other board games while enjoying chips, organic sodas, and chocolate fondue. Then John stuck a toothpick in the machinery of the chocolate fondue fountain which then exploded and sprayed chocolate all over the wall and table.
We had a great New Year's Eve service and heard sermons from some of the men of our church: Matthew Stucky,Dave Berzins, and Brett Riley. We also played Scattergories, Ticket 2 Ride, and other board games while enjoying chips, organic sodas, and chocolate fondue. Then John stuck a toothpick in the machinery of the chocolate fondue fountain which then exploded and sprayed chocolate all over the wall and table.
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