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Prayer Corner 
Last Sunday we baptized 3 people - Shawn, Diana
and Melissa. It is terribly important that all of us in the FourteenSix family
and the larger family of God throughout the earth take in new believers so they
don't feel alone. In addition, we need to lift them up in prayer asking God to
strengthen them in their inner person to be able to choose God's direction for
their lives. Remember, Matthew 13 tells us the story of the sower and the seed
- let's pray that these new believers will grow deep roots. Take a moment and
pray for them right now....
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This Coming Sunday, June 14, 2009
It's easy to
get depressed when you read the morning paper or watch the evening news. It's
easy to think everything is hopeless and that is exactly what the enemy wants
us to think. If he can convince us that trying to make a difference in this
world is not doing anything he can convince us to quit trying at all. But Jesus
said the gates of hell itself would not prevail against His church. The truth
is that in the darkness the light shines that much brighter. We need to
recognize we are part of an impenetrable kingdom spread out in terrible light
and splendor across the spiritual world. We need to see our part and play it
well. We're beginning a study of the book of Colossians this week where we
begin with a message called "All over the world". See ya Sunday....
Coming up....
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June 21 - Colossians 1:9-14 Rescued
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June 28 - Colossians 1:15-18 Master and
Maker
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July 5 - Colossians 1:19-23 Reconciled
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A Word of Encouragement 
1 Thessalonians 4: 7 - 8 (NKJV)
For God did not call us
to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not
reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
The
uncleanness he is talking about is sexual behavior that rebels against God's
directions for sex. The Bible's teachings about modesty and sexual purity are often
lampooned, cartooned and mocked. God's view is that sex should exist solely
between a man and woman in a marriage but in the Bible this kind of sex is
actually encouraged, uplifted in poetry, celebrated in song and seen as
beautiful, exciting and mutually fulfilling. That doesn't sound like God is a
kill-joy does it? The world, however, believes God's views are repressive and
even bigoted. All we have to do is recite the statistics to see that God's
ideas are the answer to 1.3 million abortions per year, 1.2 million births to
single mothers, 1 in 4 active people getting an STD and a world-wide pandemic
of the AIDS virus. But no matter how many statistics we quote or proofs we
offer that abstinence and heterosexual sex only in a marriage is the safest and
best option, people will defend their lifestyles no matter what because they
simply want what they want when they want it. We need to remember that we were
called to Holiness and recognize that people who reject God's ways are not
rejecting our impassioned pleas to stop unwanted pregnancies and STD's - no,
the bottom line is that they are rejecting God.
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Thank You
Thank you Kyle
Sanford, Steve Opgenorth and Jamie Brees for helping move our stuff and setting
up our new office. We're almost completely up and running now. It's so exciting
to have a place to work. Thanks guys.
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Operation Mailer
We're
planning to begin a new outreach in July targeting people who just move into
town called Operation New Neighbors. In addition, we plan to launch the Won by
One invitation program in August - all of this leads to our next mass mailer
which we're now planning to put into September (instead of August). Why are we
doing this? We're using these activities to obey our Master's command to "Go
and make disciples" and inviting people in to hear His message and His
invitation to become a disciple we are actively "going". So these ideas are
acts of obedience kids - let's get behind it.
Our next mailer is scheduled for Mid to late September
(date TBA). If you can help with a direct donation, please contact our
project manager, Athena Bonner, at Athena@fourteensix.com.
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Vision
Nearly a 1,000 people a month move into
Surprise. I wonder how many of these people are ready to hear that they can
have a dynamic, growing and mutually satisfying relationship with God through
following Jesus? It's our vision, beginning in July, to send hand addressed
letters of invitation to Fourteensix to each of these new households every
month. A hand addressed envelope is much more likely to be opened than our mass
direct mailers, so this ministry is likely to be very effective. Our friend Tim
Juillet has volunteered to coordinate a group of workers for this ministry - if
you can help, either by addressing envelopes, stuffing them with our invitation
letter, or help with the financial cost of the stamps, contact him at Tim@fourteensix.com.
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Special Announcements
Saturday June 13, 2009 - Men's Power Breakfast. We rent out a
special room at Desert Palms Restaurant for this event so we need a few more men or
we get charged an extra fee. Come on out guys. YES - IT'S THE SAME
DAY AS THE RUMMAGE SALE. If you men need energy food right after helping set up
the rummage sale at 4 in the morning, this is the place for you (I'm going to
be there and I'll be HUNGRY).
Saturday
June 13, 2009 - Rummage Sale, Carden School. EARLY Saturday
morning. We're setting up at 4 p.m. Friday June 12th at Carden School
if you want to come out and help get set up.
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