Spiritual Friends - Training Church Members!

This week as been exciting! We kicked of our Spiritual Friends Class which is centered around getting church members more involved and equipped in maintaining and preserving the visitors that will be coming to our evangelistic series called A World Falling Apart by Pastor Dale Leamon.(a link to our Facebook page below) The classes have been going really well considering that Mike and I are teaching the entire class. Our first class was focused on the purpose of the class, and why the work of preserving member is important. Our second class we focused on getting the members to approach these visitors; what to do and say according to different scenarios. They are so funny to watch, at first they were nervous but over the course of the application portion they really warmed up to it and are even know taking part of our Glowathon! Which by the way its going well, will let you in on the numbers soon! Its been great teaching and learning how to teach effectively. Our classes are on Sunday at 5:30pm. Open to church members that want training! God Bless you'll!

https://www.facebook.com/aworldfallingapart?notif_t=page_new_likes

The Glowathon!

Glowathon Announcement!!!

So its the day of our arrival and Joey calls us up so that we could meet up and have a prayer session for what is to come. After we prayed for city, the church, and our work, Joey started sharing a little about the church and the things he wanted to do. He mention that the members didn't much respond to the bulletin announcements. But what they did respond to was the projector screen and anything that was put on it. So he thought up this plan for the next announcement he would be making. It was the up coming Glowathon that we will be having as a church outreach before the evangelistic meetings get started.

We wrote the script on Wednesday and made sure we had all the equipment ready for Friday. We found a road that was clear from a lot of homes and got to work. None of us are actors by any means so it took longer than all of us had expected. there were some hiccups on the way but overall the church members loved it!!!

We hope you enjoy and Happy Glowing!

By Joey, Mike, and Joe C.

http://youtu.be/Trdf1QFnrvY

Launching into Madera

The City of Madera is home to a little more than  60,000 people most of them being 75% hispanic, 17% Caucasian, 2% African American . The first few days were spent settling in; our host and house mother Teresa Berkebile (who has only been Adventist for a year!) showed us around town. Our home church is located on 520 N st. Madera, Ca 93637. Its a small old style brick church with a tall roof; its sits about 250 members young and old alike! Joey Manzanares our Crosstrainer has been getting us involved in the churches up coming event! We have a Glowathon, a Spiritual Friends class, and the Evangelistic Series coming up in February to get ready for! It is exciting to know that right off the starting line the church has us working on several project, its time to put our training to the test!