Sunday was great!

Thanks to all of you who prayed about my sermon on Sunday. God was really great and it went very well. I was about to look at the Song of Solomon 3:12 through the end of chapter 4, the wedding and wedding night of Solomon and his bride to finish our series. Its an amazing passage that shows the loving intimate relationship between and man and woman. We walked through the passage, I gave some commentary and took time to address both unmarried and married people in the room. The best comment I got was from one person who came up and said, "I have heard it a million times that Christians should have sex before marriage, but today I saw in Gods word the plan for sex and marriage and my questions have been answered." High five for God. This was never my goal, but I was glad to hear it. The series was a huge success, but now we all have to live it out and that is a lot more difficult.

Right now I am preparing for our second day of training for our small group leaders on "The Story of God". This is a really exciting material we are using, where we retell many of the stories of the Bible that give the bigger picture of what God has been doing. We have been going through these stories in our small group for a couple of months and its been so exciting to revisit many of them and talk about them and learn about God. Basically you read a story for 5-8 minutes, taken straight from the bible text and then you have some discussion questions and you talk as a group. Its all based on oral learning, so the point is to help make is something you can retell to your friends or kids or anyone. Our groups really enjoy it. I am leading the training with Chris with about of our leaders and its been a ton of fun.

This is also a little FYI. Reena and her sisters have a singing group. They don't really perform much anymore, but they really wanted to do one more CD with many of their new songs and especially a capella ones. Well they finally got things recorded and hope to get it out sometime, but they may need some extra help financially, so if you would like to help with that, drop me an email at craig@goingup.ee. If you would also like to get a CD, then we could maybe sell some autographed copies at a premium price to help make it a reality. Again, craig@goingup.ee if your interested.