Courageous

So, I was listening to American Family Radio this morning in the car on FM 90.5 after dropping Connor off @ school. I was so excited by what I heard, I let go of the wheel & clapped joyously three separate times while going down the road. Sherwood Pictures - the creators who brought us Facing the Giants & Fireproof - are in the process of making another movie - Courageous! It's set to be released in 2011 but they are wanting people to pray for them while they are shooting the movie. I've been watching production videos all morning & it is awesome to see how God is blessing that movie up one side & down the other. If you want to check it out for yourself, just click on the banner.

Lessons from Sunday School

Jen & I filled in as 1st grade Sunday School teachers on Sunday am. The story was over Abrham letting Lot choose which land he wanted & the lesson was based on Phillipians 2:4 - paraphrased as "Look out for the good of others." This morning, Connor said, "You know on Cars when Lightning McQueen helped that other car off the track instead of winning the race? He was looking out for the good of others." Yes Connor, he was - lesson learned.

Answered Prayers

I just had to blog about what my God did for me & my fellow Children's Ministry workers this past Sunday evening. OK, to give you some background information, my church has a missions time on Sunday evenings as part of our children's ministry. Jenn, Dayna & I lead the missions time (C.i.A.) for the 1st-3rd graders. The previous Sunday, 1/24, came & went leaving all 3 of us feeling like complete failures. We had 12 children in the class that night & had constant interruptions with talking, rudeness, kids yelling at each other, etc. By the end of the evening, we felt totally deflated & ready to give up. Talking w/Jenn during the week, we made a decision to pray (DUH!) before beginning the next week's class. Well, Sunday came & we were busy making cookies in the kitchen of our church for the snack time. However, Jenn & I bowed our heads for a quick minute just before going up to our class room & asked God to bind Satan away from the building & letting loose his Spirit on our class - quoting Matthew 18:18 during our prayer - "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." To quote Junie B. Jones - wowie wow wow! - did He ever. We had 7 children in the class and it was the most peaceful, distraction-less missions class we've had to date. The kids were nice & respectful to one another and everyone worked hard on our missions project. As a class, we prayed over a box of tapes we are sending to another church so they can record the gospel on them in the language of the Songhai peopel in West Africa. Jenn said she got chills up her spine when all the kids put a hand on the box for the prayer and reverently waited for the prayer to begin. Jenn & I praised our wonderful God after the class, having seen His work & answer to our prayers first hand that evening. He is awesome, isn't He? I just couldn't keep this experience to myself about how great my God is.