Hello Prayer Partners,
It’s that time again. I can’t believe it’s so humid in Virginia Beach already. I’m hoping this isn’t a sign of things to come for the rest of Spring and Summer. Oh well! At least the heat makes people come outside, especially after a very cold Winter.
We had a really good series after Easter. You may have been praying for The Cross but I changed it on you. I can never settle on one title until it’s in print. The series was called The Icon. It was pretty good series for us as a church and people received a lot of prayer. Our goal is for people (churched, unchurched, and dechurched) to have an encounter with God every week during our service. I really believe that happened during this series. I’m looking forward to Mother’s Day, a series on Pride & Humility, and a series I’m calling Generations. We are seeing a few new people each week, which is always uplifting. There were a few weeks where no one new came in. However, that’s just a part of church life. It is what it is and we just keeping rolling with it.
Our outreaches have gone well. I delivered 15 Easter lilies to different businesses and organizations in the Salem area. This was very cool! Everyone was very surprised by the gesture. Our annual Easter Egg Hunt was amazing. We had close to 300 people come out. It was truly a good time. We’re ramping up to do more outreaches. I would like to do at least one outreach a month. Pray that we can reach that goal.
God really blessed our family recently. We haven’t had a dryer since late November. Our dryer broke and I couldn’t fix it. So for the past 6 months I have spent about two hours each week washing and drying clothes. A few weeks back our neighbor asked if anyone in the church could use a dryer. I immediately said, “Yes!...Us!” So we got a free dryer. It’s not new but it dries clothes. That’s the only thing that really matters. Praise God for his provision.
That’s about it for now! Thank you for your faithfulness!
So please continue to pray for the following requests:
~Protection for our family (immediate and extended)
~Attract families with children to the church
~New people to come in our doors and we retain them.
~Continue to grow 226 Street volunteers (children’s ministry)
~Implement our church wide communications strategy
~Growth in our Life Groups and identify the next Life Group leaders
~Open doors in Salem and Green Run for the gospel
~Finances for outreaches and operating budget; giving has slowed down … pray that it picks back up
~Ideas for outreaches
~My (André) personal growth and reading plan
~Implement some of the things I’m learning
~The discernment to know which things to implement as a part of our strategy
See you in a few months!
The Jenkins Family
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