Has it been this long??

We are so excited to be back in the bloggin' world!! Finally, we are taking a minute to jot down the news.

Every week we are working in the field to bring in the harvest. Yes! The Harvest! It truly is plentious. At the Dept. of Human Resources, we have been working with so many precious children. The results have been amazing! The blessings have been tremendous!

This is a bit of what we do:

Every week we bring crafts, activities and games along with a snack for them. They are having a super time and so are we. While their mothers are attending their support meeting, we do puppets and other activities with the children. We have anywhere between 4 & 8 kids. That way the moms don't have to worry about their children and they can focus on getting their lives back on track.

No stress - No worries. That's really helps them and that is what this whole thing is about! God is blessing in so many ways.

More news soon. WE are trying to make it a weekly update. We'll do our best!

A Day in the Neighborhood

Well here we finally are again and we have been very busy with this Sunday School outreach ministry. We still do our every other Monday night with the DHR and it is going wonderful. This month we have it every Monday night and we are so excited. The reason we have it every Monday this month is because Miss Varita is gone for training with the National Guard so please keep her in prayer becasue God has given great favor with her and she is a very wonderful lady.

Outside of the DHR we also were invited from June Bug day to a day in the Neighborhood to minister with the puppets and boy we had a great time. Another church did some cooking and we set up under a big shade tree and had a great turn out with probably about 100 people watching the puppets. Below is a picture of the kids Sis. Loretta chose to do a game:

The game Sis. Loretta had was you had to rub Vaseline all over your face, then stick your face into a bowl full of cotton balls, and the cotton balls stick to the Vaseline and the one with the most cotton balls stuck to their face wins. This was a great game since our theme was "The Promises of God" and we were talking about Noah and so the cotton balls represented the clouds. Now don't think that these games were limited to youngsters, as you can see below we had some pretty big guys joining the action.

Here are some of the pictures of the Puppets in action (and Sister Loretta too!)

I want to say thank you to every puppeteer as well as Sister Amy for putting together the puppet Songs and also to Sister Loretta for being an awesome spokesperson for the day. Every one was so top notch that they wanted an encore performance. We were also asked to another event and we will be blogging on that event much quicker. We are making a difference in the community and it takes a whole team to make that happen. We are a group of individuals in which God has blessed with so many special talents, but the greatest talent of all is to bring those all together to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ into Cullman as a team. Please keep us in your prayers as God is opening numerous doors and revival is in the midst already! I will close with a few more pics of the many people we met this day so, God Bless!

June Bug Day

What an awesome time we had at June Bug Day!! We had a great turn out. In case you are wondering, June Bug Day is an annual fund raiser for Victim Services at DHR. God gave us such favor with this event. They gave us the option of being inside the building or outside. Of course, we chose inside. And we had the whole side of the building to do our activities. Not only did we do the puppet shows, we also had crafts for the kids and games. While all of this is awesome in itself, in the middle of the activities, a man comes up to us and ask if we would come to the projects and do an hour long show!! God just keeps opening doors where we never thought or imagined we would go. He is using this puppet ministry like never before. Through this, we are having revival!! We would like to give special thanks to the Artis' and the Community Development outreach team for helping at June Bug Day. You guys are awesome!

Puppet Boot Camp

Puppet Boot Camp was a great success. The team did a tremendous job. We learned so much.
We would like to give special thanks to Sis. Amy Alexander for all of her hard work. She was the mastermind behind the entire thing. We took lots of pictures and were ready for June Bug Day the following Saturday. Thanks to everyone who turned out and worked so hard! We appreciate you sacrificing your time. Without you guys it would not have been a success. And a big thanks to Bro. Ken Artis for grilling all the food for us.

Identity

This word has been rummaging through my mind in prayer especially in terms of teaching, as it pertains to who we really are and what we really are about. Ask yourself what your identity is and what Jesus has anointed you to do? If you are a Sunday school teacher are you merely anointed for Sunday morning? Are you only anointed to teach one age of children? Are you anointed to teach only with certain material? The identity of this ministry is to teach a child about Jesus anywhere we can, anytime we can, and with whatever is available to teach with. Our identity is not a classroom, the number of children we are given to teach, or a certain day of the week. Just as our identity as a witness of Jesus Christ cannot be regulated to certain days of the week neither is the anointing to teach. Use every opportunity to teach a child about Jesus regardless of the place, the time, or the number. Though I don’t know the circumstances behind this comment of Abraham Lincoln I believe in the message it speaks as he once stated “No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child." As Jesus instructed his disciples when he said “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven” do the same and lead them right to him. JHK


Stay tuned for “Boot Camp 2008”

Love the Doing

There are many reasons why people enter into a ministry, but one thing that I have determined over these many years is that no matter what you do there is one thing that is going to have to happen for you to keep the burden for that ministry. That one thing is that you have to love the doing. I have thought about this numerous times and I put together an example of what I am talking about:
1. If you are in it for the crowd, what if only one shows up?
2. If your in it for the results, what if they don't come soon enough?
3. If your in it for the praise, what if you don't receive any?
4. If your in it for a person, what if they let you down?
If you asked yourself these questions truthfully I know they made you examine yourself. Now if you truly love the doing than you will answer these as follows:
1. If only one shows up, that one is still going to receive all I had for the many!
2. If the results do not come, I had an awesome time in the process!
3. If I don't receive any praise, I still love to do it!
4. If someone lets me down, I am still going to keep going!
Fall in love with what you are doing because if you do, it will be easy for you to adapt to any situation that comes your way. I love what I do and in some of the fields we work in, the number of kids changes from week to week. One week you may have 1 child and the other 10. We prepare for about 15 and we are not the least bit hindered by only 1 coming. If I have only one child I feel like Jesus knew that one child needed all that we had that day. Do all that you do for the Lord because in 1 Corinthians 15:58 Paul says "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord" (KJV). Basically fall in love with the doing because when you are doing it for him you know what you have done will never be done in vain. JHK

Welcome to "The Power of an Hour"

I read this phrase a few times that said "Don't just spend your time, invest it wisely" and in developing this ministry this statement became our objective. The Bible states in Psalm 127:3 "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD" (KJV), so what could be a better investment than to invest our time into our Lord's heritage? Prior to beginning this ministry we did not understand how much could be accomplished in the heart of a child during an hour of our time, but having experienced this first hand we can now say that it is more than we could have ever imagined. We now work with children a minimum of twice a month in the community and we have already began to see the fruits of our labors because these kids have become a major part of our lives. What is amazing is to know that these doors have always been there but they just needed to be knocked. I now understand what Jesus meant when he said "knock and it shall be opened unto you", because we knocked and it was opened unto us. The thing that was the most amazing to me was Jesus never put a numerical amount on what would be opened and I believe he is opening this entire community to every ministry in our church. Thank You Jesus! JK