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As I write this blog, our church has been 71 days in Morning, Noon and Night prayer in seeking breakthrough for our church. We have been praying for financial breakthroughs for many of our people to find jobs, for our church to be able to restore full salaries to our staff but most of all to [ READ MORE ]
North Valley Christian Fellowship is facing one of it’s most critical moments in its 27 years of history. We are being greatly effected by the economic down turn. We have had to cut our staff salaries repeatedly and are now facing the real possibility of not being able to pay our basic bills. [ READ MORE ]
Welcome to the second part in our teaching series supporting NVCF’s…. GIVE GOD 90 DAY’S Prayer effort! The idea of fasting basically means to go without food. Fasting’s purpose is to give the time of your eating as time to pray for a particular concern you may have. In a real sense, fasting adds a sense of urgency, humility [ READ MORE ]
Prayer is simply talking to God. There are many prayers in scripture you can review to help you see how God’s people talked to God in the past. The Book of Psalms is prayers that were spoken and sung in corporate worship. Jesus himself gives us a training prayer in Matthew 6:5-13. This would be [ READ MORE ]
Last week Karen and I had the previlege of being invited by Compassion International to go to the City of Quito, Ecuador to visit the homes of some of the poorest people on earth. It was life changing for Karen and me. I saw dignity in poverty. Yes, there was tremendous physical lack in the [ READ MORE ]
Many of us are so busy that it is hard for us to remember what we ate two days ago or what we are going to do a week from now. Most of us live from day to day in our focus. But I want to challenge us to remember an important thing this Summer. We have been called [ READ MORE ]
DID OUR CHURCH HAVE A GREAT PICNIC OR WHAT? I wanted to thank everyone who helped make our church picnic last Sunday (May 31st) the success it was. We had over 200 people drop by and hang out together. We also had baseball, volleyball, balloon throwing along with lots of eating. If you remember, a couple of months [ READ MORE ]
Last Thursday (5-7-09) was the National Day of Prayer. In celebrating the NDOP here in Milpitas, California , we were encouraged to see a great turn out of churches, city leaders and people from our community wanting to pray for our city and nation. In the morning, we saw almost 30 church and community leaders [ READ MORE ]
Over a week ago we presented to our Church body an audcious faith plan to keep our church on track in fulfillig the vision God has called us to. What is that vision? Our vision is to be a family that loves God whole heartedly and one another fervently. For us, our children, the next [ READ MORE ]
Why is life only here? The most powerful telescopes in the world and one stationed in orbit around it… all are looking for life on other plants in other galaxies. We are shooting rockest in different directions into space and soon will have a rocket with a powerful telescope orbiting around the Sun. All looking [ READ MORE ]