  Scripture Memorization
"For we can not help speaking about
what we have seen and heard."
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Mission Haiti Team Returns!
(Ryan Wenkel and Zeb Fearing with new friends)  | May 2010
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Upcoming and Ongoing Events | |
Book of Acts
12 Week Sermon Series
Beginning 4/11
@ Mill Run Elementary
@ 8:45 am in the library
at Mill Run
5/7-8 in Baltimore
Call Pam Rogers at
1:30pm - 7:00pm
43115 Waxpool Rd.
Broadlands, VA 20148
Victorian Sundays
Every other Sunday
11am - Noon
10321 Sudley Manor Dr.
Manasses, VA 20109
Personal Prophetic Ministry
with Fran Lance
Wednesday 5/19
9am-Noon & 6pm-End
Waterford, VA 20197
Youth Discipleship Camp 6/23-6/26
at Strother's Farm (Victory Thru Jesus) Contact Jan Fearing at janandsyd@yahoo.com
115 Harrison St. NE
Leesburg, VA 20176
Sunday Service with Communion:
Ashburn @ 10:00am
Every Sunday
Contact Us At:
21555 Schoolhouse Ct.
Ashburn, VA 20148
703-726-0777
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CHS Praises & Prayers | | |
Praise that God is blessing us and moving us to look more like Christ, and that He is providing our financial needs to get into the new Leesburg space!
Ministry Needs
1. Help for set up and break down on Sundays - soon this need will be gone!
2. Drama Director.
3. Flowers for the altar.
4. Help in the church office with administration.
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Book of Acts Witness Challenge
By Clancy Nixon
Are you up for the Challenge? On Sunday, April 11, I asked each of us to read through the biblical book of Acts all the way through in one week as part of our E-100 readings. That's the easy part! I also asked everyone to write down all the things you read there that the early church did that you notice that you are not doing in your own ministry. That's harder, but that's still the preliminaries. Next, I asked you to pray that God would show you one or two things from that list that He would have you press in to change about your own lifestyle and attitudes.
How is it going? Have you done the reading, made your list, prayed about it, and asked God to strengthen and stretch you to live and act as the early church did? I'd love to hear from you how it is going with you. We'd like to put together our own publication: "Acts of the Holy Spirit at Church of the Holy Spirit," filled with your testimonies of what God has done in your life as a result of this journey.
Our Sr. High Youth Pastors were inspired by the examples of Peter and John telling the lame beggar at the gate about Jesus from Acts 3. Sunday after church this week, Pam and Jim Rogers took Brian Tobias and Thomas Benitez to the streets of downtown Leesburg and handed out gospel tracts and M&M candies to passersby. They had several conversations with people who were interested in God's love for them, and invited many to come to church. God was good!
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Mission Haiti 2010 Team
Wants to Return in 2011
by John Nuzum
To view Leader John Nuzum's picture album of the trip, click here.
It is said there is a first time for everything. The Mission Haiti 2010 Team was the first ever to travel to the Dominican Republic to get to the Lacroix New Testament Mission and then reverse travel to get back home Easter morning.
John Nuzum and Pastor Pierre | Not knowing what to expect after Delta Airlines cancelled the flight to Port au Prince the team's travel agent, Kit McSweeney of World Travel Services Leesburg, scrambled to find a flight with nine open seats. After much overnight prayer by team members, family, and friends, Kit was surprised to find seats on a JetBlue flight from Dulles to San Juan, PR then to Santo Domingo, DR and a return flight from Santo Domingo back to Dulles. She said, "It is a very unusual way to get to where you are going, but it will get you there."
After polling the team the watchword was, "the Lord is telling us to go."
Guess Who?
Test your knowledge of your friends at CHS.
Answer in the next issue of Godsend
The Guess Who for this issue could still get a visit from the tooth fairy even though she's an adult (she still has a baby tooth)! She's lived in many areas of the country including the Gulf coast of Mississippi and the Los Angeles basin in California where she rode out the famous 1994 Northridge earthquake 5 miles from the epicenter. A talented girl from the start, she began playing piano at age 6 and had the starring role of Annie in her elementary school's play. Guess Who?
Bible Reading Marathon 2010
by Annette Scheel
The Bible Reading Marathon for 2010 sponsored by Loudoun Awakening is complete! We were reading on the Loudoun Courthouse grounds, in front of a tent positioned on North King Street near the law library. This was the same site as last year. Readers began in Genesis 1:1 on Saturday, May 1, and finished the Book of Revelation a little before noon on Thursday, May 6. The many readers present at the end were so enthusiastic that they continued with "karaoke Bible reading" for quite awhile afterwards! Several people who were walking by joined in on the reading. If you have a testimony from your time at the tent or if you'd like to get on the list to be involved in next year's event, please contact Annette Scheel at 540-882-3540.
CHS Event:
Journey to Healing in Suffering
with Anthea Gardner
Sun., May 16; 1:30pm - 7:00pm. Our Savior's Way Lutheran Church; 43115 Waxpool Rd, Broadlands, VA 20148. For Men, Women and Teens. Music, teaching and prophetic ministry. We'll learn how to be healed of emotional, physical and spiritual wounds; and how to adopt a positive attitude to suffering. Light supper included. Nominal fee: $5 for those who came in Jan; $10 for all others. To Register, please call Pam Manley @ 703-310-7862. For directions, click here.
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"It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants...From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk through the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street." [Philadelphia, 1730's, on the effects of George Whitefield's preaching]
- Benjamin Franklin
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Book of Acts Witness Challenge continued
I shared in my message from 4/18 that I identified 15 ways I noticed that I am not living like the early church did, and that the first thing God was moving on my heart to address was bolder witness. You see, I'm that sort of person who enjoys meeting new people, and drawing them out in conversation. I even like going door to door (occasionally!). Even so, as I read Acts, I noticed that I do not speak the name and love of Jesus boldly to secular people like the apostles did. I do not offer to pray for people as often as Peter did. My work keeps me mostly with church people, but I do go to the store, to soccer games, and to the gym. I'm better now about inviting people to church, giving them my card with directions and contact info. (You can do this, too - pick up some blank CHS business cards on the table in the hall on Sunday, and write your contact info on it as you invite people.) I'm not as good at witnessing the love and power of Jesus with strangers. That's what the apostles did!
So take the challenge. I've taken to praying for boldness, for opportunities to share Christ, and for signs and wonders to follow. In the last two weeks, I've been privileged to lead two women in the Sinner's
Prayer to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. John Nuzum just led two other women to Christ. We're praying that all will be baptized on Pentecost, May 23 (wear red). New life, eternal life, is the most wondrous sign of all.+
Mission Haiti continued
Not knowing exactly how we were going to get from Santo Domingo to Port au Prince where Pastor Pierre would be waiting for us the Lord provided two trustworthy Dominican drivers who not only got us across the border, but a timely rendezvous with Pastor Pierre.
The time not spent on an airplane was either spent in an airport at San Juan or six hours crossing the desert from Santo Domingo to the border, another hour and one-half to Port au Prince and another three hours north to Lacroix. We left Dulles at 8:45 am and arrived at Lacroix around 7 pm Saturday.
Each travel incident encountered we found the Lord had made a way for us from a vehicle breakdown, to finding two trustworthy taxi drivers, to crossing the Dominican/Haiti border, and our rendezvous with Pastor Pierre and his staff.
To say the least, it was exhausting and grueling travel ranging from travel delays, to language barriers, to a blazing sun, to bumpy and dusty roads, to breakdowns, to getting through the governmental maze at the border. Our return trip began at 6:30 am Saturday morning from Lacroix and ended 9:00 am Easter Sunday at Dulles airport. Our team came home exhausted, but very satisfied that they had accomplished what the Lord had sent them to do. Not one team member was recruited, but each one came saying, "I believe the Lord is calling me to go to Haiti."
While at the Lacroix New Testament Mission team members built twenty-one eight-foot school desk/benches, helped AOG Pastor Tom Plunkett and his team from Pittsburgh bag and distribute rice and beans at the mission and in the field, plumb in a new pump/motor, pressure tank and hot water tank in addition to the installation of two new bathroom sinks.
On the spiritual level the team attended evening services each night, gave personal testimonies, preached, and prayed for the sick; had a Seder service with Pastor Pierre and his wife Ermithe; mixed with the hundreds of school children attending the K12 mission school; and made an eight-mile trek off the hard surface road visiting people living in the villages in the Lacroix Valley. While at Lacroix the team also visited the mission's medical clinic, birthing center, grain mill, Community of Hope, and community water wells.
Each team member commented about the accommodations while at the mission saying," I am afraid to go back and tell people how great I had it here. Great food, cold clean water, a bed with a mattress, hot water showers, flush toilets, laundry, and rooftop star gazing after evening worship." Even with the grueling travel every team member said they wanted to return for the next mission trip scheduled during Holy Week 2011.
The nine member team consisted of John Hickey (Church of the Holy Spirit, Anglican), Syd and Zeb Fearing (CHS), Kris Russell (CHS), Ryan Wenkel (CHS), The Rev. John Nuzum (CHS), Guy Goddard (McLean Bible Church - Loudoun Campus), Jim Cantwell (Truro Church, Anglican), and John May (Bethel United Methodist Church). |
Thank you for reading our newsletter! We'd love your comments. Please contact Jan Fearing at janandsyd@yahoo.com
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