Christ in a Coffee Shop & Baptisms in 4 foot waves!
Monday, August 11, 2008
What a week we have had here at Overflow! If there was ever a question to how much of this was God and how much was us then last week answered it loud and clear....it is all Him! Here is a short version of how God worked last week in a couple of pretty incredible stories that we are celebrating today:
- Last week we took 10 leaders to the Leadership Summit in order to learn how we could all grow and become more effective leaders. It is amazing to see how God is creating and building His team here!
- Ryan Anderson's story: I met Ryan six months ago at the mall when he wandered in to the office in a state of brokenness over a series of bad decisions he had made and that he was now paying for. We talked, prayed together, and agreed to stay in touch. Jump ahead five months and Ryan decided to come visit the church with his family a month ago and has been coming ever since. He is a drummer and joined our band and last Thursday night we decided to ask him to fill in for one of our leaders that could not go to the conference's last on Friday. He was excited and was able to go and it gave us plenty of time to talk about life and God. We ran into each other later in the day in the coffee shop at the host site and he prayed right there to received Jesus Christ for the first time. I happened to have my laptop with me with our Baptism class on it and asked him if he wanted to go through it right then and there. He did and so I took him through our class and he was Baptized yesterday in Lake Michigan! Doesn't God work in mysterious and amazing ways?
- Yesterday we had our Picnic & Baptism (look for pictures on the blog soon) service after Overflow on a Lake Michigan beach and it was incredible and very memorable! The wind was strong and led to 2-4 foot waves rolling in throughout. With the help of Todd Johns (our Community Life Pastor) we Baptized six people in the lake and celebrated how God has tranformed their lives! We had people from Coloma, Benton Harbor, and Stevensville and ages 16-50! It is so exciting to see the vision for a church for all people forming! Although, we were all soaked from the waves it was a true "overflow" moment!
In Pursuit, Brian
posted by Brian @ 3:37 PM,
