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I just got off the phone with Kenya.

Their churches are now into the fourth day of fasting. They have spread the message through all media possible. They now expect thousands to come and there has never been a crusade to this area before. They are praying for salvations.

They are again praying through the night for us.

Would it be possible church to begin to pray for them with fervor? These wonderful people pray for us through the night and day after day and fast for GOD’s blessing on us, can we do the same for them?

I am asking that we pray. Can we stir ourselves up in the night season? Can we pray for repentance to come on their land as well as ours? Can we pray healing from the fighting that they had two years ago? Can we pray for GOD’s mercy to run through the land? I am stirred inside as I hear their voices. They are so very excited and desire to connect with you all in prayer.

Can we pray?

Can we pray for the same fire in America?

What if the truly is Revival? Could this be the time that GOD has called us to our knees? Could it be that our brothers and sisters from Africa heard the call long before us and are moving to rend the heavens? Can we humble ourselves and recognize the day of GOD’s visitation?

The harvest is truly ripe. The workers are truly few.

Let us pray…

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand…

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This is a GREAT email I just got from the pastors in Kenya. They are excited as we approach our coming crusade and events. Keep us in prayer as we eagerly approach the 31st. OK, folks, step up the prayers… We are one week away!

read below for their latest update…

Blessings!

pd

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Praise God man of God,

We salute you in Jesus name!!

words can not express how happy we are here, we thank God who Has provided this devine connection through His son Jesus Christ, it’s owesome my brother.

I apologise to have a wakened you such bad time, am so sorry!!! It was 8 :am here in Kenya.  Let me bring to your attention that, all our arrangiments are okey and in place, part of what we have done is, we have hired a specious hall where we will conducting our daily programs, also we have hired powerful sound P.A system that can reach as many people as we want.

Rightnow the enviroment here is a were that something unique is gonna be a round by the help of the Holy Spirit of God. As am writing the circulation of posters is going on in  a coverage of four districts of Kisii namely, Nyamira District,Kisii District, Masaba District and Gucha District.

Also media advertisement will biggin on wedsday this week also road advertisment will be on suterday,sunday and monday respectfuly.We are expecting you to meet between 1000 to 1500 delgates in the conference who will come to listen from you.

We will come to Nairobi to welcome you with some members of my board after wich you will meet the leader of Microfinance. I am sending you a sample of the poster today through e-mail.

It’s going to be a great moment to have you in Kenya-Kisii.Please hope to hear from you soon.

Pastor Onesmus Mark Omesa.

The Thread | 2009-3-18

“This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind…let it be something good.” 

-Author Unknown

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to send out this Thread to remind us of a few things and to encourage!

1 – Please keep our team that is going to Mexico in your prayers. They leave tomorrow and will be taking resources and finances to our contact in Mexico. It is really exciting to hear about Pastor Eden’s (sp?) vision, heart and plans. He has already planted churches, is now starting a possible community center and an orphanage. What a great VISION. So, Patrick and Hector, our prayers go with us as you fly out on Thursday to go and encourage and SPREAD FI-YAH!

2 – I will be leaving on March 31 for my work in Kenya. I go to Pastor Onesimus and his church plants outside Nairobi. I will be leading a large conference and crusade and will be likely preaching the gospel to hundreds if not thousands. While I am there, I am making plans to connect with leaders that will give us relationships for future work with the Foundation we are starting this year.

3 – We have been working to start an at home day care for the church in our house. This is something we have been praying about and planning for over two years. We have people that will be taking training and Lori and I have a few more steps to take to prepare the house for the actual inspection. We plan to provide services at a reduced rate to people in need and a sliding scale to single mothers. We see that this will likely be something that will grow with the church and a business like this has the possibility to fund ministry and mission, employ workers in need of jobs and help us get a building.

4 – We are planning to upgrade our sound system. It’s nothing extravagant, but after 11 years of use, the present one is breaking down. (I bought the present one in 1997 when I started the outreach ministry “Sparkplug Ministries”). So, we will be carefully purchasing something that allows us to: be heard throughout the building clearly, have monitors for the musicians, will be easy to setup and tear down, can be used at any future building and will be GREAT for recording. (Which by the way, if you weren’t there Sunday night, YOU MISSED THE BEST worship jam EVER! I will later post the recording that Zuzana made on her cell phone so everyone can hear it. AMAZING!) And this of course will later lead to us recording our music as we have planned.

5 – We have a number of events coming up:

          A – March Family Day (Saturday, March 28 to the National Kite Festival on the National Mall). Email lorihedrick(at)tapestrychurch.org for details.

          B – Tapestry First Annual Casserole Cookoff and Potluck (April 5^th after the PM service) Email su(at)tapestrychurch.org for more details.

          C – Operation Easter Egg (April 12^th after the AM service) Email su(at)tapestrychurch.org for more details.

          D – The DCUnderground.org concert (See www.dcunderground.org for details).

          E – Creationfest Email joan(at)tapestrychurch.org

          F – Small groups including a Dream Interpretation Small Group

          G – Tapestry Spring Refreshing to the Reserve in WV. Email patrickdkim(at)tapestrychurch.org for more details.

H – Ordination of Ministers and Preparation Services for Church Planters

I – Seminars, Baptism & Special Speakers

With all of that said, there is TONS going on!!! If you are not having fun this year or you feel uninvolved, IT’S NOT OUR FAULT! We want you to come be with us and have SO MUCH FUN as we grow closer to GOD and each other.

With that said, I leave you with this encouraging thought from my favorite spiritual leader, Henry Blackaby:

God’s Provision Brings Glory

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. (Psalms 50:15)
Did you know that you bring glory to God by calling upon Him when you are in distress? God promised He would deliver you if you turned to Him. You deny the Lord honor that is rightfully His every time you find yourself in difficulty and you fail to call upon Him for help! There may be times when God allows you to reach a point of need so that you can call upon Him, and thus let Him demonstrate to a watching world the difference He makes in the lives of His children. If God never allowed you to experience need, people around you might never have the opportunity to witness God’s provision in the life of a Christian. If you never faced a shortfall, you might be tempted to feel self-sufficient and without any need of God in your daily life.
Pride will tempt you to think that you do not need to seek God’s assistance. Self-regard will seek to convince you that you can handle your dilemma through your own wisdom, resources, and hard work. Pride will also rob glory from God and seek to give it to you. Don’t allow your pride to take what rightfully belongs to the Lord. Call upon your Lord and wait exclusively upon Him to rescue you. Then give Him the glory that He deserves.
Self-sufficiency can greatly hinder your ability to experience God and bring Him honor. The next time you are in distress, turn to Him!

Dustin Hedrick

Head Pastor

The Tapestry Vineyard Church

PO Box 2394

Kensington, MD 20891

Phone 301-251-4082 x13

Fax     240-206-3244

Email   dustinhedrick@tapestrychurch.com

Web   www.tapestrychurch.com

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Talk out about paranoid, my friend Chris experienced it.

Have you ever been stuck in an ATM? Most of us would answer no, but Chris would have to say yes! He got locked in an ATM! It was so funny! He was surrounded by people who he didn’t recognise. Our pastors was asking him to slide his card under the door so he could unlock it from the outside, cause Chris didn’t realise there was a button on the inside that says ” Press Here”!! He was paranoid, who would fill safe giving there most valuable possession to a stranger?

Got a good message from it, though I was laughsing from the car my message was in formation. Here goes.
Jesus among ours are outside asking for the key to your hearts door! However they can’t get in from the outside, cause the button that allows access is on the inside! Would you push your button and let Jesus come in and get the work done he wants to do?

The past few days we have saw 89 people who have changed from goats to sheep, they switched from weeds to wheat. I want to say I is good to become of use for something of eternal value, oppose to just be of use for the temporary value!

We have seen some fairly rough opposition here in the more anti christian areas, but we will explain that better when we meet again. But to God be the glory we can say he spared us! We are still in His service. Folks are still being helped in there life.

We packed 30 people onto the jeep and went to the ocean to see and enjoy it with the orphans. They had a blast! Thanks to all you who make it possible! We played cricket, badminton, etc…
All the things we did in the past 3 weeks have been miraculous! We did visit 20 childrens homes in 14 days, spoke at 14 straight, revival services at a new village each night. We had an average of 10 to 20 folks come to the saving knowledge of Jesus every night. To that I say glory to God!

We love you all,
I want to say thanks for allowing God to use you all the way in India, in whatever way you help!

Todd and family

If there were ever any red necks in India, I would have to say it is the people of the state where I am now. I have had lots of fun working during the past week and a half here. Last night I said bye to Grace and Jeremiah once again. They headed farther south to meet a friend o hers there for a few days.

It is hard to say good by to your family, even if it is just for a week or 2 at a time!

We have dedicated churches this week, we have visited 15 childrens homes in the past week and a half, we have 12 more to go. We have spoke and shared every evening since we come here.
We have had 82 people this past week and a half that to decide to follow Jesus as their saviour! They made him Lord and master of their life! Praise Jesus!!
Halleijuhah!!!

I had so much fun! In this place there are cows in the road and all there animal buddies. It is like a atari or x-box game. I was I could invent a video game of this place called “driving in india”. It would involve dodging dogs and dodging cows and dodging camels and dodging water buffalo and dodging pigs and dodging people and dodging etc…..

Red necks! It is like that song ” who let the dogs out” but instead its like “who let the pigs out or who let the cows out”.

People have been healed of aids, those with issues of sickness have been healed. He is a God none can be compared. He is awesome. He still moves stones, he is still our mighty fortress.
We have preached the gospel from the slums and prostitute area to the big city stages to the village with no lights. Guess what? He is at every place I have been so far! Who heals those with sickness and aids even? God! Who sets people free and delivers them from there bondage? God! Who can save the soul from an eternal hell and give them an eternal heaven? God!
What a mighty God we serve!

The highlight thus far in the south has been found in the village! I have saw the Lord save souls, I have seen peoples doctor reports from the next go from aids to no aids, but the highlight for me was found in a village yesterday!
A little old lady after receiving a outfit, that you all provided, came to me after the service. After praying for her she stuck her hand out, not in the fashion to receive something, but in the fashion to give something. It was an experience like no other. She place in my hand 10 rupees! It was the most humbling thing I have experienced up to this day in my life!. She knelt before me to honour me and put ALL she HAD in my hands, I tried to tell pastor to convince her to keep it and I didn’t want it, but she wouldn’t hear of it, she said you are not going to rob me of my blessing to give.
As I saw the “widows mite” displayed before my very eyes, I cried like crazy! How humbling to watch those who have nothing, give all they have for the furthering of Gods kingdom. And how sad it is that those who have so much, you can hardly pry it from there hand. I will tell you it is better to give than to receive, and it was surely a humbling thing to learn it in a deeper way in the presence of a widow!
I love you all and pray Gods greatest blessing to you. I thank all of you who reply to the mails, it is good to give short notes one on one with you all.
Love you and praying with you,

Todd Gracy and Jeremiah

I find myself in this position quiet frequently, yep you guess it, on the train again. Just can’t wait to get on that train again. I fill like the Willie Nelson of the railroad.

We are going south yet again. We will visit about 20 childrens homes in 2 weeks time. This is my last tour away from the place I base out of while in India this trip. Hope all you saints are doing fine in and by the grace of God.

Please pray for our revival in the villages this upcoming week, that God would shine His light in the darkness.
We did finish up giving out some the pants we got in the black market a few days back. Along with that we had a awesome graduation service, it was tough to do this year since Dr. Thomas wasn’t with us, due to his health reasons. I do ask all you to pray for him, that he would recover from his stroke in miraculous way!!

We are thankful to God that the conference went so well, I am grateful for those who prayed for it.

Jeremiah and Gracy are travelling with me for the 1st few days of this journey in the south. He has been very interesting on the train. All the people kind of gather around to watch the John deere video that he is so in love with. Did you know that John Deere can be used as a ministry tool? If people come in my space, they are either going to talk and ask questions or they will get a track.

Today a student from the north was talking with us and he asked why our country was so blessed.
That is an open door if I have ever seen one. Because of God duh? But it opened the door to share the gospel. Did he accept, not on the spot, will he? I have no clue! It is not my job to win him to the Lord, that is Gods work. Some plant some water, but know that it is God that gives the increase. I can say seed well planted!!

Hope you are planting seeds, as we await the return of the universal harvest!
Love you all
Todd and family

Original post by PD .

Original post by PD .

Original post by PD .