Monday Night Soulwinning - 9/07/09

We had eight folks out for soulwinning tonight including two who have never been before as far as I know. We had four ladies that went out together and four men that went out togther. It was great! It was really GREAT.

It was also SHOCKING!

Why? Why was it SHOCKING?

I'll tell you...I know that shocks you...that'll I'd tell you about it. LOL!!!

We stopped the very first person that we saw. We were driving down River Road and I saw this man standing on the side of the street drinking a soda. He was just starring into the western sky. It was clear that he was just enjoying the absolutely beautiful sunset! I just happened to have my camera with me so I stopped just beyond him and tried to take a picture of it, but my batteries were dead. Also, I was just seconds late. He even said to me, "You just missed it." We talked for a moment before I gave him a gospel tract. He said he would read it but was not interested in talking about it. I told him that I appreciated his time and his kindness in talking with us and then we moved on.

Before I was able to drive away, TWO men just appeared out of the brush with SHOTGUNS over their shoulders! We gave up! No fight from us! I don't know if I've ever encountered two men with shotguns while out soulwinning! We talked with them briefly and gave them tracts. They were headed home from target shooting. They didn't seem like they wanted to talk so I didn't push my luck...especially with them armed for bear!

We went on into town and found five kind folks resting and talking after a long day of working on their home. I shared the gospel with them and four of them trusted Christ as their Savior. What a JOY it is to share Christ with people. The fifth man, Sean, said that he wasn't sure if he believed Christ died for him. I simply told him that I cared about him and that I wanted him to be saved. I asked him to consider what I had told him and think about it, and I left it at that. We did have a good talk though. He is about to get married so we chatted about that for minute after I witnessed to his future family. It was so wonderful to see a family saved together. It was a dad, Bobby, and two of his sons, Bobby Jr (an adult,) and Ben a teenager. Also, Bobby Jr.'s wife trusted Christ.

WOW, WHAT A PRIVELEGE! AMEN!!!

I love soulwinning. I love taking new people with me. I love serving God. I love spending time with other people who love serving God!

I hope you all have had a great Labor Day!

Bro. Keever

What a GREAT Day!

I hope you had a great day! I know we did!!!

It was a long day at the office because we got new office desks and new carpet so we are moving out, painting, laying carpet, and moving back in. Not to mention getting ready for school to start in one week and planning Sunday, a holiday weekend Sunday. :sweatdrop: So, I left the office to go home, grabbed my kids, and went right back. A family picked up my wife to go tco the carpet (donated,) and then get back for church. I had my children with me from 3:30 until church and it was CRAZY...but a good crazy. :) They played some and helped me some with the reorganization of my office. I've been given an "L" desk so I have to sort of plan a little different lay out, but I'm glad because I've never had a "L" desk and I've wanted one. The desk I have was given to me and now I've been given another one.

God is so good. People are so kind. I am so blessed.

Anyway, it is the first Wednesday of the month so I didn't speak tonight. We had the teens meet seperately and we spent most of our time in prayer. We did have a short time of Bible study, but it really wasn't study, it was just a reminder of the importance of prayer. It really does work. :)
God has been so good to us.

We had a GREAT time on Sunday night. I mentioned that I planned to take my kids to McDonald's for an ice cream after church and I jokingly invited everyone to join us. I got a much better response than I actually thought about and it WAS A STINKIN' BLAST. We had visitors at church who came to McD's with us...one of which I actually attended PCC with in 1993 (but I didn't know her,) so that was fun.

There was missionary present Sunday night, but I didn't know he was coming; he just dropped in. I had him give his testimony and after church, we gave him an offering. That was Sunday...WELL! Let me tell you folks, I got a check in the mail today and God gave us back that offering times (x) TEN. I like this giving business! If you take care of others, God will take care of YOU! AMEN!

What a MIGHTY GOD we serve! AMEN!

I hope that you have had a great day. I hope you had a great night at church. I hope your day was a GODLY day!

When I get 'em done, I'll post some of our videos from Wednesay Bible Study. We are "Walking In Truth" and studying Principles of God's Word. It has been great!

Please everyone, have a good night and a good day tomorrow. :)

Kevin

Praise the Lord!

We had six people out for soulwinning tonight.

We had 7 people saved!

Praise the Lord.

I went to visit one precious lady from our church. I took one of our fine young men with me. We had a great time. I didn't spend a lot of time with her because it wasn't visitation time, but it WAS soulwinning time! Amen! I needed to give her something and speak to her for a minute and I do so. I knew she had lost neighbors so I planned to witness to some of them, and my plan was to just knock on some doors in her neighborhood after I talked to her! Well, that isn't exactly what happened.

We spent probably less than five minutes with her and, as we left, we noticed two of her neighbors sitting outside. We headed over to speak to them. I was glad it was a little windy because the lady was smoking. The wind took the smoke away from my face thank goodness.

I have to admit, I had a little fun with this lady.

I walked up and said, "Hey, let me get a drag!"

She started to hand me her cigarette!!!

OH NO.

I said, "One, I was just kidding; I don't smoke. Two, I'M A PERFECT STRANGER! Why in the world were you about to give me a DRAG off your cigarette!" Note: I was smiling HUGE the whole time. I guess she had seen me at her neighbor's and heard me talking so she figured I was the "preacher man." I think she didn't really intend to give me her smoke stick, but was taken off guard when I asked! It really broke the ice though! Her name was Crystal. I was able to talk to her, her friend Robert, and her other neighbor. Crystal said she was already saved as did Robert. However, her neighbor Chelsea did not know if she was on her way to Heaven. She had two friends in her dining room, Patrick and Tim, so I invited myself in and won all three of them to Christ. My silent prayer partner wasn't silent though...thank goodness. He stayed outside and played basketball with the kids so I could talk to the adults. ALL THREE of them GOT SAVED. One of them, Patrick, lives near Boston, MASS, but he comes up here for work and he said he would come to church Sunday! Praise God!

Our other group that went out led four people to the Lord. Amen! Pray that this precious folks will come to church. We have to make some visits and get some folks in the tank and in the pews! Pray that God will convict their hearts of their need for HIM and their need to be in church. :) AMEN!

IT STILL WORKS! We prayed when we left the church that God would guide us. We asked the Holy Spirit specifically to help our path to cross the path of someone who wanted to be saved and was ready to receive Christ! WHAT an answer to prayer! AMEN AMEN AMEN!!!!!

Soulwinning still works.

Bro. Keever

Lawn Mower Races and BonFire

Hey, be there or be square.

Bring some dogs, marshmellows, and 87 octane! We're going to race lawn mowers and eat! What a combination!

Then we are going to gaze at the stars in the DARK bush night. Gotta love it.

I bet I can find more constellations that you can...try me!




Help me out Dad!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Bro. Keever

A Great Night at TNT

What a great night we had tonight.

We played dodge ball in the lunch room and gave away money to the winner! It was great! The best part was when I was the only one throwing and the all the boys left were going crazy trying to come out on top! We finally had a winner and I got to blast them with the ball...great fun!

When we began our Bible study it really got on! We have a new young man in our class, a few new ones actually, and they are full of questions! I love it. We are in a Bible study right now on purity. I have been studying a book called Living Purely in an Impure World and I've learned so much. I have basically just been sharing with my class the lessons I've learned from the book. Over the past several weeks we discussed the topic, "What is sin?" We examined several passages from scripture which tell us specifically how sin is defined. We looked at "whatsoever is not of faith is sin," "to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin," "all unrighteousness is sin," "the thought of foolishness is sin," and "sin is the transgression of the law" and we discussed each in detail. Then last week we looked at the word "purity" and what it means. Then tonight we started on a series of lessons on how to be pure. It was great! The boys really participated and they are going to memorize Phil. 4:8 for our Bible study in two weeks.

Tonight's lesson was real simple. Prov. 23:7 tells us that we are what we think in our heart so we talked about Phil. 4:8 and thinking about right and pure things. One boy asked me how he could think about pure thoughts while listening to Korn! That was great! I basically said, "Can you think pure thoughts while listening to Korn? If not, then don't listen to it!" I also told him that the more he grows in Christ, the less he will want to listen to music that doesn't talk about Christ! He will soon be listening to worship music...actually he already is listening to worship music...we are just going to change the "one" he is worshipping. :) Yeahman!

I told the boys I would start publishing their prayer requests for the whole class to get a prayer journal going, and I thought a good way was to post them here. This will also allow the other groups and the church at large to view them and join us in prayer. I will not post specifics here until I talk to the class about putting their personal prayer requests online, but I will post them generally.

For tonight I will post these requests. Please join us in prayer for the requests of our class. Thank you so much.
Prayer for a mom to stop smoking. Her health is deteriorating and she needs to be saved.
Prayer for the family of one of our leaders. Their mother/grandmother has cancer.
Prayer for the upcoming school play. Many of the students are working diligently to learn all of their lines and they asked for prayer that the Lord would be glorified and people would be blessed.

God bless you for praying with us. I sure do hope all of you have a great day.

Bro. Keever

Mall Maze Madness - Colonie Center

Hey everyone. Don't forget to be at the church at 5 PM on Friday, August 8th! We will be going to Albany and having our Mall Maze Madness at the newly remodeled Colonie Center Mall. I went over on Tuesday night to prepare for the Maze and the mall looks fantastic. They have really changed it up a great deal and it is gorgeous! I know you'll have a good time.

Be sure to bring a little bit of money to eat as we will be meeting in the food court after the scavenger hunt to eat and fellowship for a little while before we come home. You don't need much money and you don't need a specific amout. Be sure to bring as much as you think you will need to spend on food. There is a variety of restaurants at the new food court so you'll have plenty of choices. Also, if you have one, bring a digital camera to take pictures of certain things at certain stores. You will also need to take pictures of your friends at some of the stores.

Ok, I'll see you Friday night.

Look for a new post from Paintball coming soon!

Great Message Tonight!

Tonight, our pastor preached another message in his series on "Taking it Back." The series is really good and covers things that Satan took from us and that we can Take Back from him through salvation and the power of Christ. You see, when we were born again, Christ not only intended to save us from hell and from sin, but He also intended to restore to us the relationship that we had with the Father before man sinned. Christ wants us to have an intimate relationship with Him. God wants us to have more than just fire insurance to protect us from hell; God wants us to desire Him, seek Him, know Him, love Him, and love Him as He loves us. What a concept.

Tonight's message was great. God especially spoke to my heart as Pastor Marty was reading from I John 3. At first, he only read from verses one and two, but then he used several other verse from that chapter. After he read verses one and two, I kept reading. I read up to verse thirteen. He used some of those verses that I read later and even used verse nineteen. I will tell you the message he preached and then I will also tell you what God spoke to my heart about from the message and from I John chapter three! Stay tuned; I'll post Pastor Marty's message and my thoughts tomorrow evening.

Have a great day!