…where beautiful Pink Trumpet Trees are flowering in front of graffiti walls and Central American mom ‘n’ pop shops! What God is doing with these trees, he is doing with people’s hearts in our gritty city!
As many of you already are doing, please continue to pray for Ed, Katie, their son and the new baby due in late May!
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“A great prayer movement precedes a great church planting movement…”
It’s amazing how prayer leads to people! By committing ourselves more fully to prayer (and the “active prayer” of sowing seeds abundantly) God has led us to meet over 200 hundred people since January and begin the early stages of spiritual friendship with about 20 of them. These are people who are spiritually hungry but suspicious of (even hostile toward) organized religion. At least one is an atheist, some of them believe in God but lack discipleship to Christ. Most will never set foot in a traditional church building or try an established church (again or for the first time). They are raw. Many have a rocky past (or present). They are just the kind of people we’ve been asking God to show us! Now we are asking the Lord of the Harvest to lead us to “good soil” (Mark 4) – people whose hearts are ready to let God’s word take root, grow and bear fruit for his glory.
-Phil
