Please Pray!!
Our mass mailer to the DC Metro Area is going out this week… (Photo Above…)
We are believing God for a “HUGE” turnout on our first (and all) service on September 9th!
Stand in agreement with us that every mailer will be well received and that God meets and exceeds our greatest expectations through this wonderful piece.
Go God!
David
Another Great Week at DC Metro Church and with our incredible launch team…
We had our first practice service this past weekend with Great Success! It was kinda like Christmas Morning as we all got to tear open all of the church’s new equipment and stuff… We also got to see our theater for the first time as a whole team, as well as learn how to use all the new equipment (ok so a little trial and error is expected, right?).
We had time to do a quick run through of a service as we had entitled the weekend our “First Practice Service!” We had a chance to Dedicate the building, theater, and equipment to the purposes of God. I used the scripture out of Genesis 28:16-17 “Surely the Lord is in thie place… How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; and the Gate of Heaven!” What a thought…
Although there were some things that went less than perfect in our first run through, I decided early on that is pretty hard criticize one of “God’s Miracles”, as we all felt that the morning was just another great example of God “Building His Church.” Psalms 127:1 States, “Unless the Lord builds the house, then the laborers labor in vain.” We believe that God is building His House and we just keep allowing Him to use us in order to do it with excellence every day!
Keep us in prayer as we will be sending out our first mailer tomorrow, as well as launching a great radio campaign. Thanks so much to our friends at Celebration Church of Jacksonville) where we will have one of the best radio spots scripted out by some real pros!
Also, Pray that God would send the 400 people to our first Sunday, September 9th… (9am and 10:15am)
Go God! - Nehemiah 2:20
David
We had a great outreach last night at the Screen on the Green Event on the Nation Mall. We tried to think of the most creative way to reach the over 10,000 people who attended the event last night and came up with the above trivia card… It was so easy as I think only one person turned down the card (I think that he was just being cool in front of his girlfriend anyway :-) Overall we handed out all 600 cards to various individuals and had a great response as we met what, at the time, was many people’s “felt need” (-to know more about the oldy but goody - famous movie “Casa Blanca“-)
The idea behind meeting the “felt need” has been a theme in all of our outreaches. The simple thought is that like Jesus modeled for us, by meeting a persons felt need it will allow for them to be open to having their real need met. We all know what that real need is, and His name is Jesus! It seems that everyone has a different felt need as we have expereimented I think we have come up with some real winners, (you may be blown away at their complexity!!!) here they are:
OK, so it is not rocket science… but it is quite ground-breaking to think that something as simple as, “Facts about the Movie Casa Blanca” will open people up to God, Church, and even “Christians”?
I have been prompted to think for myself, “What are the felt needs of the unbelievers around me?”
Just a thought…
Hope you are having an incredible week!
David
Another great weekend in the stine home… To cover last friday night’s “Vision Night @ Regent University” let me give a quick recap.
Friday: We had a hugly successful night with our Launch Team and all of the wonderful new friends that were invited. The facility was wonderful as our thanks goes strongly out to Regent University and Mrs. Cheryl Gould who allowed us to have the evening in their solarium (Thanks Cheryl!) We had tons of people show up as well as many children (We love our DC Metro Kids!) The night went only two hours, but with all the prayer that went into the evening it felt like it took a whole week. Being right in the middle of our “21 Days of Prayer and Fasting” we believe that it was God who gave us success. Taryn and I believe strongly in Psalm 127:1 “Unless the Lord builds the house then the laborers labor in vain.”
As far as our launch team, I am pleased to say that God has added to our numbers daily those who were added to our team. We now have a total of 65 people on the team! Go God!
Also, we got into the Alexandria Gazette Newspaper from our Friendship Firehouse Festival Outreach! The photo and information announced our service times as well as our location and our first Sunday, September 9th!!!
Other than that I do want to ask everyone for additional prayer as this process has not been without attacks… We had kind-of a scare on Saturday Morning (Right after our successful Vision Night.) Saturday morning as Taryn was walking downstairs before Isaac and I woke up, she slipped on one of the steps and fell on the stairs! Ouch! It sent me flying out of the bed only to find my wife lying on the stairs with blood all over her!!! (Needless to say this scared the heck out of her, me, and Isaac… It appears that she fell on the stairs and hit her fore arm so hard that it spilt her arm open. After we calmed down for a minute, we called Juile Reams (Thanks Julie!) to come and get Isaac, and Taryn and I headed out for the emergency room… We did pray that no-one would be waiting ahead of us and of course there was not one person ahead of us, and the Doc stiched her up (Six Stiches!) and Taryn is as good as new! (Don’t Worry, they were not worried about the baby at all, Thank God!) So needless to say, it was a wild morning but God allowed us to have a positive attitude through the whole thing as it was clear that He was with with us protecting her! Thanks God!
So not to end on that, but to ask for prayer as we have had this and many other little things that have tried to get us down, but we keep staying very encouraged as we know that God is doing Great things in our midst…
I don’t know what kind of situation you are in right now, but keep Him lifted high and He will keep you! 1 Peter 1:6-7
Love you Guys,
David
We are having a great time with the preparations for the church. Here are a few things that are going on:
Well hope all of you are having a great week.
Keep praying for the Stines,
David
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