StirlingFriday, August 8, 2008 |
So I wanted to add a few more things that took place today. We are working with Calvary Chapel Stirling, its a quaint church in the center of the city. Stirling, similar to Dunfermline, is a dark city. In fact to get to the church you are forced to walk by a Spiritualist church. The city is really neat though, everything seems to be in walking distance on the cobble stone streets. We spent the day walking the city and handing our the flyers for the skate session and tonight's concert. I dont know if I've shared, but we made 2,000 flyers per city and on average thats how many flyers we go through. One of the cool parts that differentiated today was the concert in city. The local pastor got permission from the council to have street preformers. Billy played guitar, Matt was on Djembe, and JD played his saxophone. We then had other team members handing out flyers while they played inviting them to the concert that is taking place right now as I type.
As you will hear in the following post, many people today went to Stirling Castle. A fortress built in the early 1500s. The castle was enormous and had many amazing facets to it. Then an even smaller and braver select few made the long journey to the William Wallace monument. A giant obelisk upon a separate hilltop.
As I type now, Joanne and Donna are handing out some quilts during the service. Baby Jonathon Macdonald, just received a quilt, as well as his 4 year old sister, Emily. Fioana Macalaster, a friend of the church and a "senior like us" (their words) as well as Gillian the Pastor's wife here. The pastor just shared that the quilt that was selected for them is the same color as their bedroom. The quilts have been an amazing opportunity to minister and share with people.
The other thing we were blessed with was Libronix, a family donated 10 copies of the software. Libronix is a Bible research tool that is simply amazing. Type in a Scripture message and it will have easily 30 different commentaries on the text, it will have dictionaries of every word, it has the original languages, and so much more, it easily makes studying the Word for messages so much easier.
Right now Brett Schorr (our wonderful lighting technician at Ocean Hills) is sharing his testimony. Throughout the week Jim has been bringing up different people from the team to share their testimonies.
Jim has been doing a wonderful job preaching, he has tackled the very very difficult route of preaching a different message everyday. To be honest, I tried to persuade him to preach the same message every night, yes the team would hear it daily, but it would be fresh to the intended audience every night. But he said that he was going to do a new message, new text, every night. Trust me its a toll on a pastor, but he is doing a wonderful job. Holland has also been doing a wonderful job with the band, there has been some amazing and oh so wonderful times of worship.
Please continue to keep us in prayer, many of us our tired. Our schedule is simply this, breakfast at 8:30am, leave the city at 9:30pm, so we are putting in 13 hour non stop days, and its exhausting. But we are all healthy, all doing well, God is being served faithfully. But the band could use prayer as it is strenuous on vocal chords to sing ever day (professional bands would never tackle this difficult of a musical tour) but they are holding strong. Pray that we are drained of ourselves and filled fully with the Spirit.
Also I have been adding photos throughout the week to the photo section. Click photos at the top of the page to go to all the high school photos, and then click the 1st one, cleverly titled "Scotland 2008" for our current trip photos.
As you will hear in the following post, many people today went to Stirling Castle. A fortress built in the early 1500s. The castle was enormous and had many amazing facets to it. Then an even smaller and braver select few made the long journey to the William Wallace monument. A giant obelisk upon a separate hilltop.
As I type now, Joanne and Donna are handing out some quilts during the service. Baby Jonathon Macdonald, just received a quilt, as well as his 4 year old sister, Emily. Fioana Macalaster, a friend of the church and a "senior like us" (their words) as well as Gillian the Pastor's wife here. The pastor just shared that the quilt that was selected for them is the same color as their bedroom. The quilts have been an amazing opportunity to minister and share with people.
The other thing we were blessed with was Libronix, a family donated 10 copies of the software. Libronix is a Bible research tool that is simply amazing. Type in a Scripture message and it will have easily 30 different commentaries on the text, it will have dictionaries of every word, it has the original languages, and so much more, it easily makes studying the Word for messages so much easier.
Right now Brett Schorr (our wonderful lighting technician at Ocean Hills) is sharing his testimony. Throughout the week Jim has been bringing up different people from the team to share their testimonies.
Jim has been doing a wonderful job preaching, he has tackled the very very difficult route of preaching a different message everyday. To be honest, I tried to persuade him to preach the same message every night, yes the team would hear it daily, but it would be fresh to the intended audience every night. But he said that he was going to do a new message, new text, every night. Trust me its a toll on a pastor, but he is doing a wonderful job. Holland has also been doing a wonderful job with the band, there has been some amazing and oh so wonderful times of worship.
Please continue to keep us in prayer, many of us our tired. Our schedule is simply this, breakfast at 8:30am, leave the city at 9:30pm, so we are putting in 13 hour non stop days, and its exhausting. But we are all healthy, all doing well, God is being served faithfully. But the band could use prayer as it is strenuous on vocal chords to sing ever day (professional bands would never tackle this difficult of a musical tour) but they are holding strong. Pray that we are drained of ourselves and filled fully with the Spirit.
Also I have been adding photos throughout the week to the photo section. Click photos at the top of the page to go to all the high school photos, and then click the 1st one, cleverly titled "Scotland 2008" for our current trip photos.
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Post written by: Evan Liewer at 12:16 PM