Sept 11 Prayer at Courthouses: A group of well-known national ministries is coordinating prayer at courthouses on Sept 11 for a new national awakening. More details later on local expressions of that. This looks good and hopefully will include much repentance for the sins of America and for the sins of the American Church. Only massive repentance by the Church of America can turn the hand of God to bless America again, as 2 Chron. 7:13-14 illustrate. Politicians cannot fix America. Only the Church can. God is disciplining America for its sins. Our economy is His target. Only repentance will pull us out of this economic nosedive. See http://www.awakeningamerica.com for details about the Sept 11 event.
Virginia Retreat Centers: Click here to see the list. Beware, some are flaky, scary new age places but others look OK. The list at the bottom of the page is the best one I have seen so far but not fully complete. One place that should be added is Living Water Farm in Valentine, VA. This is my favorite place for personal and group retreats. The folks who run it are amazing Christians and it is a working cattle farm with chickens and friendly dogs running around.
Native Americans and America's Failing Economy: The centuries of deceit and violence against Native Americans began in Tidewater, Virginia, home of the first permanent English colony in North America. Greedy Christian settlers tricked and forced Native Americans off their lands, BROKE EVERY TREATY CHRISTIAN AMERICA MADE WITH THEM, forced them onto concentration camp-like reservations, massacred them and stripped them of their language and culture even into the 20th century. Click here to see an excerpt from my book, HEALING AMERICA'S DNA, a historical/theological analysis of the sins of the Jamestown colony and how they affect America today. There are sins our ancestors committed against Native Americans that few churches in America have admitted, confessed or tried to rectify. II Sam 21 tells us how God cursed Israel for similar sins in the reign of David because of sins committed by an earlier generation against a non-Christian people, the Gibeonites.
In order for America to fully prosper again, America must secure the blessing of Native Americans. It is not too late for Christian congregations to repent, for Christian businesspeople and Christian government leaders to make some restitution, so that God may have greater mercy on our land again.
Just think of what good could happen if each of the 1400 churches in Tidewater adopted one Tidewater Native American family to bless them each year in some way, if Christian businesses and government leaders helped Tidewater Native Americans get jobs and prosper. It would be a beginning to heal the wounds of generations of the Host People who owned this land for millennia before 1607. Such repentance and kindness could move God to release greater blessings and protection on America---and glorify His Name among those we should have loved when we settled their land.
Camp for Kids: August 10-15 at Friend's Bible Camp in Wakefield. It is an overnight camp for kids between 6 and 13 years old. The cost is $100 per child, with partial scholarships available. Faith Bible Church in VB has a web page with a link that has a flyer and application. The camp is mostly for inner-city kids with an emphasis on Christian Character Qualities. For verses memorized during the week, the campers receive school supplies! They will have a praise and worship band there all week with crafts, swimming, games and skits. Contact Beth Iman 420-7630, 235-4496. Email: nbs_iman@yahoo.com
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Partners 329: Teens Healing Teens, Recommended Ministries, I am a Pastor Again, Prayer for Muslims Resources
Teens Healing Teens at Disneyland! Joel Hill, a local teen from Virginia Beach, was one of them. Click here to see this wonderful and amazing set of YouTube clips from that day of healing. This is the future of Christianity worldwide. Go teens!!!! Jesus' ministry was primarily as an itinerant preacher, healer and exorcist in the public places of Israel. The world still needs that kind of ministry in the streets. People need more than words to believe. They need to see demonstrations of His power. That's how Jesus proclaimed the Gospel: show and tell. Joel Hill leads a bible study at Kempsville Presbyterian in Virginia Beach on Tuesday nights at 7 PM.
Church Ministries I Recommend. Since God sees only one Church in Tidewater, composed of all of His kids who meet in different buildings and denominations, we can avail ourselves of the full range of ministries God has provided for His children in our region so that we can grow and be more fruitful. Every church has a special ministry or two that can bless the larger Body of Christ. I hope you will taste and see the Lord's goodness in these:
Wed Morning Prayer: 6:30 to 7:30 at New Life Providence in Virginia Beach. Consistently one of the best early morning church prayer meeting I've been in. Call 757-227-6930 for details.
Senior Ladies Group: 9:30 to 11:30 each Thursday at Kempsville Presbyterian in Virginia Beach. This small group of godly ladies, (ranging in age form 60 to 85) has ministered to many leaders in Tidewater over the years.They love to worship, pray and serve leaders. They are mature, wise, full of the Spirit and full of love for anyone who visits. Call the church at 495-1913 or call Fran Truit, the leader at 757-547-3233 for details.
Our New Church: I am now the pastor of Revival Life Church, currently a house church in Virginia Beach. We plan to grow and be a different sort of church in some respects while keeping the main things the main things. Click here to see more details. Pray that we follow Jesus faithfully. Please tell your friends who do not have a church. We now meet in our home at 5208 Canoe Landing, Virginia Beach, VA. 23464 at 10:30 on Sundays and 7 PM on Wednesdays. My cell is 802-1423.
Two Reasons for Americans to Pray for the Conversion of Muslims during Ramadan, Aug 22 to Sept 20: 1) God is targeting Muslims for salvation in many ways. He loves them passionately. 2) In addition, Muslims have invaded and greatly influenced Europe through immigration and high-placed Muslims in every government & major university of Europe. Sharia law is now part of domestic law in Great Britain! America is next on the Muslim agenda. The conversion of Muslims is the only sure answer to Islamic terrorism and the increasing Islamic influence in America. Every church in America should be praying for Muslims to know Jesus!
Click here for a list of free and inexpensive prayer resources to win Muslims to Jesus. The list is just below our church vision.
Blessings,
Bob Fox
Editor
Church Ministries I Recommend. Since God sees only one Church in Tidewater, composed of all of His kids who meet in different buildings and denominations, we can avail ourselves of the full range of ministries God has provided for His children in our region so that we can grow and be more fruitful. Every church has a special ministry or two that can bless the larger Body of Christ. I hope you will taste and see the Lord's goodness in these:
Wed Morning Prayer: 6:30 to 7:30 at New Life Providence in Virginia Beach. Consistently one of the best early morning church prayer meeting I've been in. Call 757-227-6930 for details.
Senior Ladies Group: 9:30 to 11:30 each Thursday at Kempsville Presbyterian in Virginia Beach. This small group of godly ladies, (ranging in age form 60 to 85) has ministered to many leaders in Tidewater over the years.They love to worship, pray and serve leaders. They are mature, wise, full of the Spirit and full of love for anyone who visits. Call the church at 495-1913 or call Fran Truit, the leader at 757-547-3233 for details.
Our New Church: I am now the pastor of Revival Life Church, currently a house church in Virginia Beach. We plan to grow and be a different sort of church in some respects while keeping the main things the main things. Click here to see more details. Pray that we follow Jesus faithfully. Please tell your friends who do not have a church. We now meet in our home at 5208 Canoe Landing, Virginia Beach, VA. 23464 at 10:30 on Sundays and 7 PM on Wednesdays. My cell is 802-1423.
Two Reasons for Americans to Pray for the Conversion of Muslims during Ramadan, Aug 22 to Sept 20: 1) God is targeting Muslims for salvation in many ways. He loves them passionately. 2) In addition, Muslims have invaded and greatly influenced Europe through immigration and high-placed Muslims in every government & major university of Europe. Sharia law is now part of domestic law in Great Britain! America is next on the Muslim agenda. The conversion of Muslims is the only sure answer to Islamic terrorism and the increasing Islamic influence in America. Every church in America should be praying for Muslims to know Jesus!
Click here for a list of free and inexpensive prayer resources to win Muslims to Jesus. The list is just below our church vision.
Blessings,
Bob Fox
Editor
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Partners 328: Summer Job for Students, Dallas Plemmons, Roger and Marion Copeland, $20/year phone, Free HD TV
Summer of Prayer: That's what some Hampton Road Christian leaders are sensing for this summer. This is a summer to pray, not primarily play. Serious things are in the works. Something is stirring in the Spirit. I sense that America's spiritual defenses are down. Odd and powerful things are happening: The bankruptcy of America's greatest auto giant, GM; the bankruptcy of California, the world's 8th largest economy ( now paying creditors with IOU's); the successful hacking of many of America's key government computers, the strange flood in the main tunnel to the Peninsula, etc. This is a summer to pray more---not less.
Dallas Plemmons: Dallas has been in public ministry for over 50 years,mainly as an evangelist. His story has been told on TV and in his book, "Hell in the Land of the Morning Calm". Former prizefighter for the US Army, former Chinese POW in the Korean War and global evangelist with a healing ministry, Dallas is a man's man who is now very ill at home in Virginia Beach. I encourage you to pray for him and his dear wife, Zonie, as Dallas struggles to recover from multiple strokes. Ask God to help Dallas live out his final days in health--as many as the Lord gives him. You can send words of encouragement to : P.O. Box 2213, Virginia Beach VA 23450. Phone:
$20/yr Phone Service: The MajicJack costs $40, plugs into your computer and includes a year's worth of unlimited local and long-distance calls. (Free international calls to other MagicJack users, too.) After that, you'll pay just $20 per year. I use this thing, and it works. Not perfect, but it works, with free voicemail messages emailed to you, caller ID, three-way-calling, 911 calls, etc. Can take on road with you. You can buy online, at Best Buy or WalMart.
Free HD TV: I got rid of Cox phone and use Magic jack for a home line ( as well as a cell). I also got rid of Cox Cable and get about 15 free over the air TV channels, some of them HD, by installing a high-gain UHF antennae in my attic. With a flat-screen TV, the picture is amazing and the savings from using Magic Jack and free TV will pay for the flat-screen TV.
Blerssings,
Bob Fox
Editor
Dallas Plemmons: Dallas has been in public ministry for over 50 years,mainly as an evangelist. His story has been told on TV and in his book, "Hell in the Land of the Morning Calm". Former prizefighter for the US Army, former Chinese POW in the Korean War and global evangelist with a healing ministry, Dallas is a man's man who is now very ill at home in Virginia Beach. I encourage you to pray for him and his dear wife, Zonie, as Dallas struggles to recover from multiple strokes. Ask God to help Dallas live out his final days in health--as many as the Lord gives him. You can send words of encouragement to : P.O. Box 2213, Virginia Beach VA 23450. Phone:
1-757-486-0001 and email : DPMin59@dallasplemmons.org
Pastors Roger & Marion Copeland: After 30 years of ministry in Hampton roads, they are moving to Harrisonburg, VA to work with their son in a large Mennonite ministry there to the homeless of that region. Founder of Revival Life Church 12 years ago, the Copelands are leaving town on July 18. Messages can be sent to them at: roger@revivallife.org
Summer Jobs for Students: The McDonnell campaign is hiring paid interns to reach out (via door-to-door) to a targeted group of voters. The paid internship hours are Monday through Thursday from 5-8 pm and on Sundays from 2-5pm. The program runs though July and probably into early August. The compensation is $10.00 per hour. Contact cindyrhodes@cox.netPastors Roger & Marion Copeland: After 30 years of ministry in Hampton roads, they are moving to Harrisonburg, VA to work with their son in a large Mennonite ministry there to the homeless of that region. Founder of Revival Life Church 12 years ago, the Copelands are leaving town on July 18. Messages can be sent to them at: roger@revivallife.org
$20/yr Phone Service: The MajicJack costs $40, plugs into your computer and includes a year's worth of unlimited local and long-distance calls. (Free international calls to other MagicJack users, too.) After that, you'll pay just $20 per year. I use this thing, and it works. Not perfect, but it works, with free voicemail messages emailed to you, caller ID, three-way-calling, 911 calls, etc. Can take on road with you. You can buy online, at Best Buy or WalMart.
Free HD TV: I got rid of Cox phone and use Magic jack for a home line ( as well as a cell). I also got rid of Cox Cable and get about 15 free over the air TV channels, some of them HD, by installing a high-gain UHF antennae in my attic. With a flat-screen TV, the picture is amazing and the savings from using Magic Jack and free TV will pay for the flat-screen TV.
Blerssings,
Bob Fox
Editor
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