Year In Review

Rather than continuing with the study of Romans today, I would like to take the day after Christmas to reflect on the last year. This last year has been full of challenges, trials, triumphs, joy, let downs, and many other things. There have been days when I looked with fear at what was ahead, wanting to trust God for the outcome, but battling my flesh the whole time. There have been other days when I felt like I was invincible, and that nothing could go wrong. All in all it has been a wonderful journey this past year. Because of the empowerment of God's Spirit Crossroads Fellowship has been able to continue growing in an ever increasing secularized world. We have helped three different people get into drug rehab centers. We have seen many couples on the brink of divorce hang in there and keep going. We have seen babies born into the world to parents who were told they were not ever going to have more children. Personally I became interested in the Way of the Master evangelism technique, entered the Way of the Master School of Biblical Evangelism, and graduated from the course. To add to that I began street preaching and stranger evangelism, two things I never thought I would do. Then 20 adults began the first Way of the Master Basic training course that would be taught at our church. Well more than half finished that course which required them to sacrifice eight Friday nights and two Saturdays. It also required them to hand out tracts to complete strangers, and by the end to share their faith with a total stranger.

Because of all of this we have seen the most amazing thing happen. Even though we are in a church that is hovering around 100 folks we have seen 51 people repent of their sins and trust the Savior for salvation, many of these are people we never met before. Once a month a team goes out witnessing, the last two times it has been door to door evangelism. Last year, 2005, very few in the church shared their faith on a regular basis. This year, 2006, many men and women are sharing Jesus with much fear and trembling so that the King of all Creation may be glorified.

We have had ups and downs, but all things considered this has been the most awesome and humbling year I have ever spent in ministry because of the awesome people who are ministering alongside of us. Thank you all for your faithfulness to God, may we continue to see his Kingdom grow.