C'Mon United....

What a week at Sefton Village! We had Cornerstone United on Sunday and then Tuesday-Thursday we had an AoG Tri-District Conference. I will blog about the conference tomorrow, but first ... Cornerstone United.

The United service is usually on the first Sunday of the month and all our Cornerstone Churches gather together to lift up Jesus. Usually there are around 400-500, sometimes more, sometimes less. But it is a wonderful atmosphere.

I was so blessed and challenged last Sunday. I felt that we should do things a little differently than 'normal'. Instead of a main speaker, I felt that we should invite four of our leaders share what was on their hearts. In between, we would praise, worship and pray. First up were the Powerhouse Dancers ... wee Lydia included! They are a real blessing and they practice so hard. Their song was brilliant -"I have nothing ... If I don't have Jesus."

Then a man called Fanto gave his amazing testimony. He was high up in the army but led a terrible life - he was a murderer, womaniser and drunkard. He was put in BJMP. But there, he found Jesus, through the ministry of Pastor August and the Cornerstone Team. Well, what a transformation! He was released a few weeks ago is presently staying in the room of Pastor August! He wasn't to go to Bible School, enter the ministry and devote his life to the Lord. This hard guy has been given a new heart! He has a long way to go and many things to sort out ... but he is well on the way. It's really strange ... young August is his advisor and mentor!

Then Maribel gave a word - she is the wife of Pastor Adonis (above) - and she is one of the most sincere and lovely people you could ever meet. Her message was 'Don't Worry!" and she was excellent.

After some Praise and worship, led by Cristina and the Santiago Team, Pastora Theresa (above) shared. Well, she is one of my heroes ... without even speaking a word! She spoke about 'Overcoming Weakness with Strength' and shared her story. Inspirational and so humble ... her 'pulpit' was a simple chair.

More worship ... and then Pastor Henry spoke. He spoke on "The Power of Having Dream" and showed a PowerPoint on the blessings of the Feeding Programme. He is doing an incredible work. Do you know that in the last two weeks he has had feeding programmes around 8 times! Every time he gets up at 3am to cook all the food! What a heart. We ahve a burden to have the 'Food for Thought' programme running 5 days a week. Henry needs strength!

Last, but not least, was Pastor Danny. He spoke about 'Intimacy with God" and shared some things form his own life and the church at Nagassican. God is doing great things in Nagassican - they have 'Dawn Watch Prayer' every Friday morning at 4am and in the evening they have a night of prayer. No wonder God is doing great things there. Every night the church is being used. They have around 30-40 young people who have given their lives to Christ and are now in the Drama Group led by Danny's wife Jane. Here they are dancing last Sunday!

Pastor Danny sang a song "I was born to love you" and his dream that was that one day his sons would play the music for him to sing a song to the Lord ... and on Sunday it happened. Dreams come true!

I wrapped things up and we had lots of Henry's food to finish up with. I love United. We now have 7 churches - and another two will be planted next month. There is something wonderful when groups of churches join together to worship Jesus, listen to His Word and just to hang out together. Some of our churches are young and only have 30 or 40 people ... but they love coming together to be part of the big picture! Fantastic!

Be blessed ... and keep praying for us.