SNED Missions Dinner...

Well, last night I had the opportunity to go to the Southern New England District Assemblies of God Missions dinner. I went with Di and Pastor Patrick and some other leaders from Calvary. It was held at the Crown Plaza in Worcester, MA. It was great to see a ton of people from all the Assemblies of God churches in southern New England. I saw alot of my teachers from my Berean Ministry classes. It was cool to see how our churches are really giving and supporting the spread of the Gospel to the world. We are all called to missions, either by going or by supporting their work with money or prayers or hopefully both. The Worship Team from Zion Bible institute was there and they were great. I was feeling kinda blah from my allergies. My head was weighing in at 120 lbs. ugh. But the guest speaker was from Missouri and he brought a great message saying "If Coke Can, We Can!", showing us that Coca-Cola is EVERYWHERE. All around the world and we need to get the gospel to all the world. The one quote that really stuck with me was from an executive at Coke in the 1920's. He said "Before everyone dies, I want every person in the world to have atleast tasted Coke." Amazing. A simple but very profound dream. We need to have that same passion and that same dream that every single person gets to hear the Gospel, the Good News of Jesus before he/she dies. We need to get out there and start sharing that Good News!!!! With friends, neighbors, people in the grocery store, everywhere. We all can do our part. Not everyone has to jet off to China or India.. just when you go out and do your day to day things, pray that God will open doors and give you the right words to say to help people come to know the love of Jesus. One last quote from last night.. on the night years back when Michael Jordan scored 69 points in 1 game, a rookie player was on his team and scored 1 point, his first ever NBA point. They asked him how it feels to score 1 point while Jordan scored 69.. and the kid said, "I will always remember this night as the night me and Michael combined for 70 points!!!" We need to do our part, even if it is just that 1 point and God will do the rest, God will score the other 69. Give God a little and he can do so much. Give God nothing to work with and that is what you get.. NOTHING.

Rock on... not an easy task but we can do it together!!!!

be good.. and now for something completely different.. John Hartford on the banjo...


God bless everyone!!!
Tony