Brooklyn, New York

This weekend was very touching. We were at a Catholic church called Church of the Holy Innocence. CHI is an average working class family church in Brooklyn with many immigrant families and cultures. Saturday we did a night mass and Sunday we had four masses; two in English, one in Spanish and one in French (do not be fooled we did sing the Mass in Spanish, but we sang in English at the French one). It was a very long day, Sunday, and we had a concert to do also at 6:30 and we were all physically tired.

I was worried about the concert because our prayer time was cut down to only 10 minutes, which is normally 30 minutes before each performance. So our time to focus and gain strength was shortened drastically. However, God honors all prayers, long or short, and as we prayed there seemed to be a desire to just worship the Lord last night.

And the Spirit was strong there. I tend to struggle with tuning out the crowd and just worshiping God, but last night I felt so free just to sing to Him. At the end of each service we give a call for those who want to except Christ as their Savior and for those who want to rededicate their lives (and then for any other prayer requests laid on their heart). Normally only a small percentage of the church raises their hands for prayer, but not at the Church of the Holy Innocence. A third of the people raised Their hands, all at once -- it was so powerful. All I could do was praise the Lords name! There were so many people that instead of meeting them at their pews, we formed a line in the front of the church and they had to come to us.

The one that touched me the most was a girl by the name of Amillia, who was probably in 2nd or 3rd grade and she wanted to except Christ as her Savior. I am not the best with words but the emotions I feel are excitement, awe and humility.

Each night I am still amazed at how God is using our ministry - seeing the Holy Spirit work through us to touch individual churches. To think that all I am doing is praising and worshiping the Lord and somehow God is using that to transform lives, Amazing!

The next three days (Monday through Wednesday) we are traveling to Texas. We were going to have two concerts on Monday and Tuesday, but they fell through, but I feel for the better. With such a strong experience like that I feel that I, personally, need to spiritually recharge. Like, when the disciples came back from their mission work and Jesus took them to a private place to rest, I need to rest with God, and these two days are a blessing in my eyes.

My throat is still soar, but pray that these two days will help me to recover. Also, by Monday (technically today) we are suppose to have raised $18,000 to go to the Philippines. Pray for God to provide, because it is All from Him. I have faith that He will.
Matthew 9:29 According to your faith will it be done to you