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It all started last
year, during our Purpose Driven Life Campaign. I was reading Day 33 of
Rick Warren’s book where it was talking about how real servants act. He
pointed out how real servants make themselves available to serve. They
stand by ready to serve. Rick pointed out that being a servant means
giving up the right to control your schedule and allowing God to interrupt it
whenever he needs to. In fact, for a servant, interruptions are divine
appointments for ministry and a servant is happy for the chance to practice
serving. Jesus compared his followers to soldiers. He said, “No
soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so
that he may please the one who enlisted him.”
So, I prayed this
prayer to God: Jesus, today I make myself available to be used by you.
Whatever happens today, I will not say “no” to that opportunity if it brings you
glory and helps others.
Not
5 minutes after my prayer I got a call from my friend Waldo Werning who asked me
to go to a place I knew very little about and where I never imagined myself ever
going. He needed pastors to mentor Indian pastors in the Purpose Driven
Life principles. And he was inviting me and my wife to go with him to
India to help pastors and lay leaders there develop ministry plans using the
principles he had written about in his book, The 12 Pillars of a Healthy Church.
Immediately, I thought of a
hundred reasons why I could say no. One big one was he expected Hope to
raise $15,000 to support this conference in India. And I thought, How can
we afford that? It was hard enough raising that kind of money for a sound
system. (By the way, God raised the money we needed in only 2 months.)
I also thought about all the trips I was going on already with PLI. Plus,
why would I ever want to go to India? I really did not. There was no
logical reason for me to go. How will I ever manage this?
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SOCCER CLINIC
Ascension, Portland, OR - A testimony from Kelsea Miller, a Servant at the recent Sporting, Soaring and
Scoring Soccer Camp outreach event!
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Not
5 minutes after my prayer I got a call from my friend Waldo Werning who asked me
to go to a place I knew very little about and where I never imagined myself ever
going. He needed pastors to mentor Indian pastors in the Purpose Driven
Life principles. And he was inviting me and my wife to go with him to
India to help pastors and lay leaders there develop ministry plans using the
principles he had written about in his book, The 12 Pillars of a Healthy Church.