True Revival

The danger of being a Christian for any length of time, is that church life can become routine with very little expectation of anything new.

It's like taking a teaspoon, dipping it into the ocean and saying, "this is God". Then we pour it over our head and say "this is the Christian experience".
God calls us to dive in the ocean. Prayer is boring when it is merely an attempt to maintain our present level of communion with God.

Let me encourage you to read Psalm 85, it is a prayer for revival.

It's a prayer about asking God to help get you out of your spiritual decline
It is a prayer to get you out of apathy, vs. 6 says "will you not revive us again" and after we are revived, the promise in vs. 12 is to "get ready for a new harvest".

Psalm 85 should make our mouth thirsty for Him, because if it did, Jesus said "come and drink".

Yours for Revival

Pastor Francis

Is God asking you to do more?

In the fall of 2007 I met a boy who changed my life. He was a little boy we found in tears on the street. He had just lost all of his money after working all day and was upset at the prospect of going home to face his father without earnings. Myself and the others with me that day gave him more than enough to double what he had lost – to us, it was just about twenty dollars. To him it meant much more.

That little boy right now is somewhere in Guatemala, probably earning a living for himself and his family the same way he was that day. I haven’t seen him before or since in my several trips to the country. But that day God asked me if I could do more.

More meant opening a children’s home in Villa Nueva, Guatemala, a more rough community than some in Guatemala. We have called it Casa de Alabbanza – “House of Praise”.

In November 2008 we found land to purchase. In April 2009 we began a three year contract to pay off a $200,000.00 USD building that once was a school. This April we will pay the third and final installment of about $70,000.00 CAN (depending on our currency at the time of payment).

Not only will we be finished paying for the building this April, but we believe we will be permitted by the Government to begin taking children into our home. We will begin with just a few, but within a year we could have up to 40, possibly 50, children that right now are living in abusive, neglected and abandoned states.

We have renovated, bought supplies, received donations, brought on Directors (Dan and Ashley Arnoldussen), and are ready for children. But we need your help. We have just 10 weeks before we need to send $70,000.00 CAN. My question to you is this: Is God asking you to do more?

Yours for revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong