Several of you have been inquiring about “How’s it going from house to house?”, or just “What’s going on?”

When will the prayer room start back up on Saturday nights? I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been asked that question in the last two weeks or so.  The answer: we’re not sure, and we’re not going to “do it in our own strength”.  Yes, there are times when “the violent must take it by force”, and then there’s times when you have to just “be a son”, and know that our Abba, Daddy God likes to give good gifts to those who just wait on Him and trust Him as Daddy.

We believe it is in the heart of God to establish a facility for night and day prayer in our region, and we know what our “next step” is in this progression that culminates NOT in the establishment of a facility, but WITH the Great Harvest, the Great & Terrible Day of the Lord, and when every eye will see Jesus return “in the same manner” as the disciples saw Him ascend into the clouds - as a resurrected man in a glorified human body.

Our Part. The next step for the Jacksons is into your living room. We want to bring a team of about 6-10 love-struck worshippers, fiery intercessors, and spiritually-gifted teachers to your home (or other relationally conducive environment) and have an evening of Family Worship & Prayer.  Instead of investing our current resources into a building and asking people to come to us, we want to fund & release intercessory missionaries to go into homes, businesses, and venues across the region to ignite the revelations that will answer the Lord’s charge, “my house WILL be called a house of prayer.” WE are the house whose builder and maker is God - constructed of living stones - and just as He named people and geographies in the Bible with a prophetic description of their calling and purpose, He has branded us with His desire for us: “to be a people of gathered prayer.”

Your Part. Well, there’s your living room, but we don’t want there to end up being 6-12 of us (counting our 6-10). You invite your friends, family, church family, and as many broken, hurting people needing a real encounter with a jealous, love-sick jewish man named Jesus who wants nothing more than for us to “love Him as His Father loved Him (John 17:26/Mark 12:29-33) - and TOGETHER we will all worship, pray, express, teach, talk, listen, share and love.

Aaron, are you getting off track - we liked the idea of “a house of prayer” being a central building somewhere? Again, we believe that will come - maybe in 2010 - maybe somewhere else - maybe by someone else - and maybe two or ten of them. HE will build it. Has the vision changed? Not at all.  Here’s some blog posts from August/September of 2007:

http://www.likedaviddid.com/our-purpose/from-house-to-house/
http://www.likedaviddid.com/our-purpose/houses-of-prayer/

The Lord gave us this phrase as a guide in 2007: “More than a ‘prayer community’, I want a ‘community that prays.’”  Let the rally begin.

There’s another excited, paradigm-shifting facet that the Lord has called us to in 2010 that I will write an article about soon: “Living Locally Like Foreign Missionaries”.

We look forward to praying and worshipping alongside you very soon.

The Jacksons

Aaron, Robin, Israel, Gideon, Kalek

p.s. So, you want details like “How big does the room need to be?” “What will we do with the kids?” “Do we need to have food?” “Will you come to our church building?” “Will we take an offering?” “Do you have to know the hosts really well?” — Just ask!

As I was praying-over and trying to prepare some hand-outs for distribution at a recent conference, I was trying to keep them concise and non-to-wordy… and as I was pondering what to put in them, I was asking the Lord, “Father, convince ME again of why we are doing what we’re doing!”  If I am called to gather believers in the place of corporate prayer, then is some of the responsibility of CONVINCING them to come on my shoulders?

So, here I was, pouring over Scriptures and revelations that the Lord has burned in me, trying to decide what would be the most convincing.  Then I remembered something I had written in my prayer journal a little over two years ago, when I was pondering a similar question, “Lord, why do you want me to help establish a house of prayer & worship in the river valley?”  After a time of similar Scripture searching and pondering, I shifted gears into worship and then into trying to just be quiet and listen to the Lord.

Crystal clear, the voice of the Lord pushed through my attempts to calm and quiet my soul:  ”Because I deserve it.”  Wow.  Why would I try to encourage believers to gather together to pray and to worship the Lord on a consistent, maybe even eventually 24-hour a day basis?  Because He Deserves It!

So as I sat here a few days ago, planning those printed materials, the Lord reminded me of that, and broke through my striving and just said, “Aaron, you don’t always have to have some powerfully worded, verse-packed, no-room-for-reproach reason for calling people to pray and to worship me… I DESERVE IT!”

During the Eyes Open Conference at Crossroads this weekend, I was there with my three beautiful children early to help the IHOP worship team do their soundcheck, and we got their early enough that the Prophecy Rooms were still going on, and a friend asked me if we wanted to go receive ministry.  I was hesitant, because it was just me and an 8, 7, and 5 year old - and I thought, wow, this is going to be a fun ride for the ministry team.

Anyway, all of the words the three prophetic team members were right on, specific, and confirmed things the Lord had already spoken to Robin and I about ourselves and our children.  One of those words over me (which is why I mentioned it here) was basically this:

Aaron, the Lord is so delighted in the gift that you are giving Him.  It’s like when one of your children is at school and has a craft time, and decides to make something for you, and when they bring it home and give it to you, and you ask them why they made it, they just say, I was thinking of you, Daddy, and I wanted to make something just for you.

I want us, His children, to make this thing for Him.  Like David, I am consumed with establishing a house for the Lord on the earth where He can come and where His children will be in constant, day-and-night worship and prayer before Him.  Why?  Because He deserves it.

This weekend, a team from the International House of Prayer - Kansas City ministered to the region… with permission, I intend to post a few short audio clips that encapsulate some of the key messages that the Lord was speaking to the river valley.  The resounding word the Lord was bringing to me the entire weekend, starting during the set-up time through personal conversations with some fellow believers who were there serving from the the host church, was the necessity for what we are doing with the Rend Your Heart ministry and the regional intercessory worship gatherings we have been facilitating the last 19 months.

Most of you know of the incredible unity that exists between the various prayer & worship ministries in the region, namely The Burn - Fort Smith, Crossroads Church, New Wineskins Ministries, and Rend Your Heart (yes, I’m still vacilating between that name and “Pray River Valley”).  Because one of my personal, primary motivating revelations is that of Jesus’ intense desire for unity among believers (John 17:20-26), I always process my own motives and vision through that filter: is what I feel impressed to do already being done by another believer or ministry, and should I just serve with them?  Should we all just head over to Crossroads where the Lord has amassed so many phenomenal, devoted, and faithful intercessors?  Should we put all of our proverbial eggs into the same basket?

The resounding answer is… Maybe!  Okay, not really.  The real answer is, what is the Lord asking YOU to do?There is a need for equipping of intercessors and worshippers in the river valley, and Pastor Damon and the believers at Crossroads are doing that, and doing it well.  Thank you, believers at Crossroads, for your faithfulness and vision that goes back even before God’s orchestration of bringing Damon & Lisa to our region.  Thank you, Damon & Lisa, for your obedience and yourselves!

There is also a need for intercessors and worshippers in every single congregation throughout the river valley - believers that have already been planted, some from birth, into varying church-families.  Some will get uprooted for a season to go and soak and get equipped to return to the congregations to which the Lord has destined them.  Some must stay planted where they are at, and let their roots go deep - even when it’s dry - their roots will have to search out the streams.

That is one of the primary things the Lord has asked us (Rend Your Heart) to do in the valley:  we are to be a stream of living water, an oasis in a dry and thirsty land.  We are a place where believers who are faithfully plowing and sowing in other ministries can come to be refreshed through fiery worship and fervent prayer. Who are we?  We are believers from many churches in the region:  Heritage Church VB, Crossroads Church Alma, The Current VB, Butterfield AoG VB, First Baptist VB, Grand Ave Baptist FSM, City Christian Fellowship FSM, Victory Temple FSM, First Methodist FSM, Mt Olive Church VB, and I know I’m forgetting some.  These are just the congregations represented on the stage almost every week.

Could we be this same stream and serve this same purpose from inside a specific congregation’s facility? Theoretically, yes - and, eventually, Yes! There will be many streams and deep wells all over this region in homes, in church-buildings, and in buildings devoted to prayer, worship, and outreach.  This is what the Lord has asked us to do - and we’re running… we’re digging… we’re soaking… we’re burning.

Will you come and join us this Saturday from 6pm to 9pm at the prayer room located on the corner of Alma Blvd and North 20th St in Van Buren?

Every week, we try to rally people in our region together to pray and worship - and we always encourage them to try to “pray the Word”, instead of just praying completely out of their own brain!  You wouldn’t believe on how many levels it helps to know that when someone is praying it is directly from the Bible, and hopefully very near to the original context.  To absolutely ENSURE the context is correct, we really encourage people to pray “The Apostolic Prayers”.

Really, there’s no reason to capitalize The Apostolic Prayers, because it’s not like they are their own little book or body of work.  This way of writing it, that even comes-across when speaking the phrase, may be the reason we are asked so often, “What do you mean by ‘Apostolic Prayers’?”  Simply put, apostolic prayers are the prayers prayed by the apostles in the New Testament.  Of course, most of the apostolic prayers are penned by Paul, but there are many more, too.

Now, of course, there has to be exceptions, that make the name not-quite-so-simplistically-accurate.  One of those exceptions is that the prayers of Jesus are often grouped into any compilation of apostolic prayers, too.  Why some, and not all?  Well, the real reason most prayer people use this compiled list of prayers is that they are prayers whose target is the Church.  So, for example, the last part of Jesus’s prayer in John 17, when He prays, “not only for those whom [the Father] has given me, but also for those that will believe,” we like to include those prayers in our reportoire (if you will).

Check out the power in this statement:

When we pray the prayers found in the Bible, for the same people the prayers were being prayed…. WOW!  We can KNOW that we are agreeing with the very prayers of God!  The Holy Spirit inspired these prayers to be written.  And Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father praying for the saints at this very moment.  Why not be assured that the prayers we are praying are directly from God!

So, that’s it in a nutshell.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Per Anthony’s request, here is a link to the compilation that we have adapted from the International House of Prayer - Kansas City for use in our local intercessory worship meetings: Apostolic Prayers.

I certianly make no claim to greatness of musical skill, nor fall prey to false humily too often, but, although I realize my pitch isn’t too great a lot of the time, I thought I’d give you a taste of one of our recent gatherings via an audio clip.

I am so amazed by these singers and musicians.  For the musicians, this was the first or second time for most of us to play together, and the first time for all but one of these singers to ever sing in intercessory worship with me.  They are so amazing - first time or not.  This reinforces for me the value of using a “model” for our meetings and the way we conduct ourselves in these services.  Thank the Lord that what He had promised me about using a structure He has made true, “this is the stake & twine by which your vines can grow and flourish, not a rigid form that quenches and prevents.”

Let me point out a few elements you will notice in this clip…

The night had started out with some corporate worship songs (songs people were familiar with, or could quickly familiarize themselves with) so that we could all get our hearts and minds focused on the Lord which draws us (the believers gathered) into one accord, toward the Lord.  This clip starts as we’re coming out of the song, “Rend the Heavens”, and we began to sing spontaneously around some of the scripture from which the song is based - namely Isaiah 62 & 64 and a similar cry from Revelations 22:17.

The next thing that happens (around 2:45) is the intercessory, Matthew McSpadden, introduces a topic (”revival”) a target (”the river valley”) and a passage of scripture from which he will be praying (Acts 2:17-18).  He reads the scripture word-for-word, and then begins to pray using the language of that scripture for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the river valley.

Next, Matthew helps the singers by isolating a phrase from the scripture, “Pour out <Your> Spirit.” (verse 18)  Then, the singers echo that piece of scripture, and then begin to develop it - always trying to use scripture, word-for-word when possible, and as relevant and contextually accurate as possible.  I branch off the original passage, by calling from Joel 2, from which Peter was quoting in Acts 2, where it says to call an assembly, sound an alarm, gather yourselves together - and from Jesus’ similar direction to the apostles, that they should tarry in Jerusalem, and so they gathered together in one accord.  We establish a chorus using that Joel 2 verbage, where we all sing our prayer together and the room all comes into agreement (via song) with the scriptures being prayed.

After that, the prayer leader, moves into asking for some specific gifts of the Spirit (”gifts of healings” - 1 Corinthians 12) and prays that for his target (”the river valley).  Although he didn’t specify those scriptures, because this environment becomes a “singing seminary”, the singers know that what he is praying is directly from Acts 4:30, and so we base our songs off of the Acts 2, and now Acts 4 verses.  We again establish a chorus (using the exact Acts 4:30 verbage) and unite the room in the cry for the fulfillment of this same prayer that Peter prayed over the believers gathered with him.

Matthew then moves to Luke 11:13 and solidifies the fact that it is okay for us to echo Peter’s prayers - that it is okay for us to ask for what the Lord talks about in Joel and throughout scripture - that it is okay to ask of the Lord - that we can ask for the Holy Spirit to be poured out.  He prays around that scripture, and we sing it.

Yes, it’s simple; Yes, it’s repetative.  But, YES, it is Scripture; it is decent and in order; it is the heart of the Lord.  It is the same type of environment that King David knew would entice the Most High God to come and establish a dwelling place in his city, right next to his house.  We are contending for that type of dwelling place.  That the Most High would be enthroned on the praises of His people. (Yes, I know there are questions about the translation of that scripture, but, look at what David did and the Lord’s response to David’s Tabernacle and rallying of the singers, shouters, and recorders into this place of day-and-night worship - whether it’s an accurate translation of Psalm 22:3 or not, it is a contextual reality.)

So, that’s a taste of one of the things we’re doing in the Fort Smith river valley - Intercessory Worship - the mingling of prayer and worship.

I believe the Lord is calling me to rally the worshippers and prayer leaders who will help serve and facilitate consistent prayer and worship in the Fort Smith River Valley, and that the first three to six months of 2008 are critical;  He has promised to “make a way” for those who will make specific time commitments… are you heeding the call?

My biggest concern in this season is NOT the facility, it’s the facilitators.  There are plenty of gatherings and opportunities for worshippers and pray-ers to serve, but it’s time for a step-up in the quality and diversity of the musicians, singers, and prayer leaders.  We may never know WHY the Lord wired we humans to respond the way that we do to musical worship, and why it makes prayer and devotional focus so much easier at times, but He did it, He likes it, He wants it, and He is eager to honor the sacrifices you will make in committing to serving in this capacity.

So, for you musicians and singers, and you pray-ers who feel called to help lead others in prayer from a place of leadership during a gathering (you know who you are), it’s time.  Please contact me so we can work out your monthly/weekly commitments.

For you devout pray-ers and lovers of God who aren’t musically or microphonally (yes, I made that up) inclined, we need your support.  Please pray for the Lord to release these watchmen, and for Him to make a way for them: schedule-wise, money-wise, and desire-wise to be able to commit to this calling on their lives.

On a somewhat related note, the Lord has asked Robin and I to serve in a more full-time capacity at Heritage Church while the pastor is deployed to Iraq with his National Guard unit.  I came on as the interim Worship Arts Coordinator, as they searched for a full-time Worship Arts Pastor (in a very divinely orchestrated way, I might add), but we immediately felt the Lord stepping it up from “very short term interim” to “put some other things on pause and help provide stability here while Pastor Wes is gone - interim”.  The great thing is they know my heart and calling to the region, and give me full freedom in pursuing those things (time and energy wise).

With this increase in time commitment comes an increase in pay.  So, in remaining consistent with our open-book financial policy, I wanted you guys to know that we will be receiving full-time pay from Heritage for our service there.  My initial flesh reaction was to contact our supporters and encourage them to start sending their money somewhere else, but, with prayer and thought, I feel the Lord is asking us to press towards the goal of having our budget fully funded with supporters, even though we will be receiving a full-time paycheck from Heritage.  “Blasphemy!” you say?  We believe this window of opportunity to get fully-funded is the Lord’s grace on us, and we believe we have divine strategy for how to use any moneys in excessive of the standard of living the Lord had us establish.  Any support received will prayerfully be applied to either (a) clearing our last remaining debts, or (b) given to other missionaries.  I believe some of those “other missionaries” will be the worshippers the Lord is having us rally.  We need to be in a place where we can help them make the transitions into this more consistent place of service.

We appreciate your continued prayer and support as we join together to accept the prophetic invitations of the Lord to establish a zone of glory, an epicenter of revival, a valley of regue, and a fruitful vally in the River Valley.

There is a “unity banquet” at the glass pavilion (”riverfront pavilion”) in Ft Smith this Friday night (Nov 9th) at either 6:30 or 7:00pm.  They will have meal, followed by some worship (which I will be helping with) and some discussion.  This has had me focusing a little more on unity in my prayers and thoughts this week, so here’s some ”Aaron backstory” for you: 

In probably the middle of 1996 I had a weird dream where a big holographic-looking face was up in the sky sharing the gospel and could be seen from all over the area.  It was teaching and exhorting from Jesus’ prayer in John 17:19-end where Jesus is asking the father desparately that “those who would believe” would come together “in perfect unity”.  I could then see people going outside of their church-buildings and tearing down the words on their signs.  They tore down their denominational affiliations, and they tore down their own names - read “identity”.  Unfortunately, my pendulum swung more towards “anti-denominational” than “non-denominational”.

It was summer in Colorado Springs, and I was gathered in the un-finished World Prayer Center at New Life Church, praying with other leaders from around the nation who had brought various groups (mostly youth and young adults) to three days of prayer and fasting called “Prayer Storm”.  During a time of prayer, the Lord spoke two distinct things to me that I feel the weight of to this day.  First, He asked my permission to be martyred for the sake of the salvation of others; He made me say the words, “Martyr Me.”  (I don’t even like typing that, for I do not take it lightly.)  Second, He told me to “never slander His Bride.”  The expressions of faith and love that have been cultivated in people through their local churches, family, and denominations is not something we should insult flippantly - because, although even now I find it hard to believe in a lot of instances, it is still these people’s expression of faith of love, and it is precious to the Lord.

 Why is it that we can embrace the phrase, “though I’m dark, I am lovely” for those of us struggling with our same thorns and lack of personal righteousness, but we give no grace to the person who feel is too religious or hypocritical or judgemental.  Though they are dark, He calls them lovely - and, if they are willing, He (and only He) will bring them from glory to glory as He desires.  The Lord put it into this perspective for me one time:

“Aaron, you despise the ‘religious’ because they are so unloving towards the ‘green-hairs’ and pierced - but in that SAME WAY you are unloving towards the ‘religious’.  The ‘unlovable’ in the phrase ‘love the unlovable’ is different for each person, but a necessity for everyone.”

Later that summer I was at a church camp serving and during one of my quiet times the Lord showed me my tombstone.  It read:

“…his obedience to God
   helped unify the Body of Christ.”

Let’s pray that the “eyes of our understanding would be enlightened” and that the Lord would “fill us with a knowledge of His will” and with “the hope of His calling” - because praying that humbly over all of us will do far more good than arguing or even intellectual debate or scholarly reasoning.  And you know what, this unity comes with a promise from Jesus Himself, prayed by Jesus Himself, and that we can agree with (by word and action) and with which we can make a claim of fruition:

“Let them be one, as You (Father) and I are one -
so that the world will believe.”

(emphasis added)

We are certianly not despising small beginnings - the Lord has really shown up the last two weekends as we’ve gathered for prayer and worship with believers from the area.  Last Saturday we joined Paul & Katie Howell from New Wineskin Ministries at the prayer room they have faithfully ran in downtown Ft Smith these last several months.  Tonight we just got back from a friend’s home in Van Buren.  The “fresh bread”, “now word of the Lord”, or whatever else you want to call that little breath He breathes on a gathering when You know that what you are singing and praying is what is really on His heart, has shown up both times.

Robin and I were both a little nervous, to be honest, about how all of this was going to turn out once we got back in to town and started putting our hands to what the Lord has called us - but, wow, He has so faithfully relieved those fears and demolished a lot of the “performance anxiety” that we get, even when we’re… ahem… mature enough to know that we’re not performing anyway.  Have we followed the “Harp & Bowl Model” as taught to us this summer at IHOP?  No.  Has it helped? Absolutely.  But that’s another discussion.  What has happened is that what was on the heart of the people gathered was put on the altar before the Lord, and then He gave us His heart, and allowed us to sing and pray it back to Him.  It’s amazing the “building-up” that takes place when You encounter the Lord’s heart and His faithfulness in this way.  Thank you, Lord!

Tonight, the Lord really had us dwell on themes around 1 Peter 2:1-5 & 9, Psalm 42, Isaiah 55, Colosians 1:9-11, and Ephesians 1:17-19.  He was asking us to cry out to Him for a real habitation of His spirit in us, to taste the food that He has for us, by listening, obeying, seeking, and just receiving.  I am so bad with “the addresses” of verses, but the Lord is definitely helping me out there.  I realized tonight that about 90% of what I sing when I’m singing spontaneously and/or prophetically is scripture almost word-for-word, and I couldn’t be more thankful to Him for that, and the seasons of preparation that He has put me through.

With that, I would strongly encourage you - whether you are “a harp” or “a bowl” - to really search the scriptures to gain the understanding, vocabulary, and will of the Lord on the topics you are praying and singing about.  Now, I’m not saying “just find the scriptures that seem to match what you want them to say”; Lord grace us to avoid that perversing work - but I am saying that You are His sheep, and You hear His voice.  So, when something is on your heart and on your mind to pray and sing about to Him, I bet it’s there in the scripture.  If you can’t find it, put it on a shelf and get counsel from those whom you know have gained some Godly wisdom; but, I bet you WILL find a lot of it, and then start using it for your prayers and your songs.  There’s no pressure to be “more creative”.  THE CREATOR Himself inspired the writing of this stuff, and He does not mind plagarism one bit.

If you would like to invite us and some of the church Family that you’re connected with into your living room for a time of prayer and worship, we’re down with that.  Check out the “From House to House” post, and then feel free to send us an e-mail directly or via our contact form.

We’ve also had a pretty sizable offer on some funds that would totally cover all of the sound & video equipment needs we would have in starting a full-instrumentation prayer room, and a good chunk (if not all) of the renovations.  And it couldn’t have come at a more divine time - after the Lord had really changed my heart to truly desire the small home gatherings, and He provided a way for us to earn a good chunk of our monthly support in a way that matches the “job description” that He gave me back in Topeka… after all of that dying to my own wants and worries, then He starts making a way for what we may have messed up if we were anxious about it and trying to make it happen.  Seriously, why would I start asking for funding to spend on some building and equipment before I knew our grocery budget was met?  That’s ludicrous.  But, the Lord has called some believers to build things, and others to support people (and some to do both I’m sure).

If you’re either of those types of people, I continue to humbly and joyfully offer you an opportunity to partner with us in seeing the Lord’s will to equip believers for a lifestyle of prayer, fasting, and worship that will radically transform the Fort Smith River Valley, and bring many to His saving knowledge.  If you want a gift to go towards the future facility, please just put that in your comments for online giving, or in a note or post-it in your mailed contributions.  And, of course, we’d love to sit down and talk with you about any of this stuff - just give me a shout.

Manifest Blessings!

Now that the Jacksons are back in town and have had a chance to sure-up some of the things the Lord has asked us to do, we have put together our “normal budget” for living the life Jesus has called us to in this season, and are posting it here as a part of our call for an “Open Book Policy”.  I say “normal” because, just like Paul, we are to learn how to “abase and to abound” depending on the giving of others in support of ministry.

We received $1130.00 in support for the month of August from four sources ($1000, $100, $20, and $10).  I had an outstanding web development project that I completed for an additional $1000, which gave us a total income for August of $2130.00.  Although it was more than $1000 short of the normal budget we have developed with outside counsel and prayer, it looks like we are going to make it out of August with everything immediately due paid, and having had to make an extra trip to Van Buren from Kansas City and back with two vehicles (gas… ouch!).

As of today, we know of about $200 in support that we can expect for September, and accepted tent-making proposals for about $3000.  However, all of that depends on people writing checks, and such - so, although it is very close to our actual need, we ask that you would still pray about how the Lord would have you partner in His work with us by sowing financially with us.

Also, we are humbled, but confident, that it is the Lord’s desire to move us completely into a place of full-time commitment to prayer, worship, fasting, outreach, and serving the churches of our region by being fully-funded through your giving alone.  The Lord has really opened the scriptures to me that have incorrectly shaped my view of tent-making and full-time ministry in the last few months.  For example, Paul made tents in Thessalonica because they believed that the rapture had already come, or was eminent, and weren’t working at all, at anything.  This was NOT Paul’s normal way of living; this was an exception to the way he normally ministered because these believers needed an example of how believers (whose lives were not devoted to gospel full-time) were to live.  Even in this passage, Paul reminds them that he, as one whose life is devoted to the gospel, “has the authority” to receive support from the church - but he was “making an example of how they should follow them.”  Then, on top of that, the Lord has rebuked me sharply with the charge, “Do you not know that being a watchman on the walls is real work?  Do you not value the place of intercession as highly as the place of carpenter, a staff pastor, or a computer programmer?”

“Okay, Lord.  You win.”

I felt His grace to accept a part-time interim Worship Arts Coordinator position with a local congregation here in Van Buren as they continue the search for a full-time Worship Arts Pastor, and as we transition into raising support (which is a large chunk of the expected tent-making income for September), but, again, the Lord is asking us to pursue being fully-funded by your partnership.  So, as you are led, please visit our Partnering page where you can donate on-line, schedule automated monthly donations, or get the correct address and information for sending your support via regular mail.