13 Baptisms, 150 volunteers honored, 3 salvations, 2 rededications...Great Sunday!

Okay, as you can tell by the title of this blog - I am PUMPED about what God did at Living Grace yesterday.  We witnessed 13 baptisms in our morning service.  The stories of life-transformation were remarkable.  As I stood there in the baptistry watching the video stories of all of those being baptized, I couldn't help but thank God for all of His provisions and purposes.  

Here's a picture that I snapped with my phone right before the baptisms...

Here's who's in the picture (in random order):

Larry Cooper Jr 

Angie Coomer 

Daniel Miller 

Hope Cole 

Andrew Powell (child) 

Chasity Mitchell 

Kelly Martin 

Susie Bradley 

Mike Wiegel 

De De Wiegel 

Kenny Eastridge 

Teresa Coulter 

Kenny Childers

As I preached on 2 Corinthians 5:17, I sensed that God was leading us to give a special time of response at the end of the service.  As we closed, we saw several people either give their lives to Christ for the first time or rededicate their lives back to Him!  This NEVER gets old!  Wow!!!!

After the service, we had a good ol' fashioned pizza party for the hundreds of diligent volunteers who faithfully service the Lord at LG.  We ate pizza and all met in the sanctuary for a time of encouragement and motivation.  I challenged our volunteers with what Paul told Timothy in 2 Timothy 1 when he reminded the young pastor to "fan to flame the gift that God had given him!"  

We need to continually FAN to FLAME the gift that God has given us in our service to HIM!!

Well, got to go...Planning my message for this week...make sure you are there EARLY (trust me!)  We are talking about "Winning the War on Addiction!"