Levi's House Mission Report for 2010

A few ways we helped others

Foreign Evangelistic Missions

Save Africa is the mission sending organization of Levi’s House

Sent Phil as a missionary to Sudan Africa for three weeks to preach the Gospel 

Local Ministry

Cherith Brook is a homeless ministry in Kansas City

Loaned them $5,000 interest-free towards retiring the debt on their building

Gave $1,000 towards their expenses in helping homeless people

Hillcrest Transitional Housing, a homeless ministry in Kansas City

Gave $3,000 as a memorial to Scott Brandom

Emergency Assistance

Gave $1,000 to a family in their time of need

Kansas City Rescue Mission, a homeless ministry in Kansas City

                Gave $500 for holiday meals for the hungry and homeless

International Outreach

Samaritans Purse

Operation Christmas Child

Gave 15 shoeboxes packed with a variety of small Christmas gifts to demonstrate God's love in a tangible way to needy children around the world, and together with the local church worldwide, to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Operation Christmas Child Videos:

The Power of a Simple Gift;

The Shoe Box Kid ;

Operation Christmas Child Spreads Hope in Sudan

Samaritans Purse Mission Projects - $1,500

Help a Farm Family Grow a Bountiful Crop

Chey, a young Cambodian farmer, was struggling to feed his wife and six children. When the crops failed, they couldn’t even afford a place to live. A local church let the family stay in their sanctuary, and all eight of them accepted Jesus Christ as Savior. Then a Samaritan’s Purse team came along and provided local farmers with seeds and taught them how to grow bountiful crops of vegetables and rice. Now Chey has extra produce to sell to pay for housing, medicine, and other essentials. As little as $45 can supply a farmer with seeds, fertilizer, tools, training, or other aid. Working with local churches, we can trust God for an abundant spiritual harvest: “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up” (Galatians 6:9, NIV).

Dairy Animals – YouTube video

Around the world, more people drink milk from goats than from cows. One goat can produce enough nourishing milk for a family, and a small herd can supply a steady source of income. As our teams provide families with goats, we also furnish training and veterinary care, building relationships that offer opportunities to present the Good News of Jesus Christ. “I am grateful to God and Samaritan’s Purse for uplifting our family and community,” said Mugisha, a Ugandan farmer whose herd has grown so much that he donates goats to help other families. A gift of $70 can supply a goat or other dairy animal to a family in need.

Teach a Child to Read and Write

Without an education, this little Sri Lankan boy was probably doomed to a life of hard labor, hunger, and hopelessness. Around the globe, Samaritan’s Purse helps thousands of children like this through a variety of education and literacy projects that bring hope to impoverished communities and offer local believers an effective means of sharing the Gospel. A $15 gift can provide a month’s tuition or school supplies, enabling an eager student to learn of Jesus Christ, “in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:3, NIV).

Rescue a Child from Exploitation

Every day, thousands of children fall prey to human traffickers. Some are forced to serve as soldiers or perform menial labor—but many more are enslaved in the worst kind of exploitation and abuse. Samaritan’s Purse works through Christian partners worldwide to protect vulnerable children from trafficking and to rehabilitate young victims of exploitation. For $75, we can provide a child with basic necessities, safe shelter, job training, counseling—and the opportunity to experience true freedom in Christ. “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:36, NIV).

Honey Bees

Little honeybees can be a big blessing for struggling rural families, who can sell honey and beeswax to pay for education, healthcare, or other basic needs. The bees also pollinate plants, increasing fruit and vegetable yields. We provide the starter hives, equipment, and training to start a successful honey business. For $35, we can help a family get started in beekeeping and earn a hearing for God’s Word, which is “sweeter than honey” (Psalm 119:103).

Life-Saving Mosquito Nets - YouTube

While they sleep tonight, thousands of children will be bitten by mosquitoes that spread one of the world’s most rampant and deadly diseases. Malaria kills over a million people each year, most of them children under age 5. For $10, we can provide a bed net treated with natural insecticide to kill mosquitoes and keep children safe and healthy. As local Christians hand out these nets, God gives them opportunities to tell families the message of eternal life.

Baby Chicks

Chickens are at the top of the “pecking order” when it comes to helping needy families. A small flock can produce hundreds of eggs each year, enough to eat with plenty left over to sell. Samaritan’s Purse works with local believers in developing countries to furnish baby chickens or ducks, and to help families raise them properly. For $14, we can supply a starter brood of a dozen chicks.

Freshwater Wells

At two miles above sea level, the Aymara people of the Altiplano region of Bolivia literally live above the clouds. Several months can pass without rain. Samaritan’s Purse has helped scores of Aymara families by digging wells and supplying hand-pumps (pictured). Across Latin America, Africa, and Asia, our teams have built or repaired hundreds of wells, along with providing pumps and other equipment. Costs range from $250 for a hand-dug well serving a few families to $10,000 for a deep-drilled well serving an entire community. Through your gift, many will hear of the gracious Lord who promised, “With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation” (Isaiah 12:3, NIV).

Train & Equip an Evangelist - YouTube

From deepest Africa across the Middle East to Southeast Asia, Samaritan’s Purse mobilizes faithful believers to proclaim the Good News by providing evangelistic training and tools ranging from Gospel films and video projectors to flipcharts and bullhorns. A gift of $35 can provide a month of Bible education, audio/visual equipment, or other resources to help reach “every tribe and tongue and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9, NKJV).

How Can I Go to Heaven?

The Big Question – How Can I Go to Heaven?

The mystery of what happens after we die has captivated people since the beginning of time.  For most people, throughout history and across every culture, the belief in a god or gods has been almost without question.  How we relate to a supernatural being and how that relationship impacts us after we die has been the source of countless speculation and debate, even resulting in all kinds of violence and oppression.

We believe that a relationship with almighty God is as simple as a prayer.  God does not demand of us any great and noble words, any heroic acts, any deeds to prove to him that we are worthy of his favor.

We believe God is love.

We also believe that God’s greatest expression of his love for us was by sending his son, Jesus, to teach us about him and ultimately to pay the price for our admission into heaven.

What price?  Let’s face it, no one is perfect.  In fact, if all of your thoughts for a single week, or even a single day, were made public, chances are you would need to leave town.  We are by nature people who think, say and do things that are sometimes pretty rotten.  That rotten part is what the Bible calls sin.  And the Bible also says that no one is going to get into heaven who has committed sin.  There’s been only one person who has ever lived who didn’t commit sin.  Jesus.

The Roman soldiers, with the urging of the religious leaders of that day, crucified Jesus.  What they didn’t realize was that Jesus, the only sinless man in history, was offering himself up for us as a payment for our sins.  God let Jesus take the punishment for our sins.  It doesn’t sound fair, but that’s just it.  God’s love for you doesn’t have a thing to do with being fair.  God loves you and me and is willing to go to this kind of length to save us and to have us live with him forever.  Jesus died for your sins.  That’s not fair.  Its love. 

Jesus was buried but he didn’t stay dead.  Three days after he died, God raised him from the dead and he’s been alive ever since that day.  By Jesus being resurrected by God, it proved that Jesus really was the Messiah, the Son of God.  And because Jesus was raised from the dead, we believe that we too will live with him after we die.

Fifty days after Jesus was raised from the dead and after hundreds of people had seen him alive, he ascended into heaven and sits next to God the Father in heaven.  He promised to come back some day to set everything right.  Evil will be banished and goodness will be unopposed.

So how does this all bring us to going to heaven?  What do we have to do?  Some have believed that if we just do more good things than we do bad things then it will all even out and we’ll make it to heaven.  Others have believed that heaven is for everyone, no matter what they do or say or think or believe. 

However, these ideas are not what Jesus told us.  Getting into heaven isn’t about balancing the scales, any more than staying the son or daughter of your parents is based on doing your chores when you were a child.  We are our parent’s child because of who we are and because of the relationship between us that is far stronger than if we were perfectly obedient.  We are our parent’s child because we are in an intimately loving relationship with them and they are in an intimately loving relationship with us.  We don’t become their child or stop being their child based on deserving it.  It’s a relationship.

And Jesus clearly taught that those who don’t want a relationship with God don’t have to have one and thus won’t be required to be with him in eternity.  No one, from infamous persons in history who worked to destroy others, to you or I, have to hang out in heaven pretending that we love the Lord. 

It all comes down to one thing.  Tell God that you love him and that you want to be his child.  Tell him that you accept what Jesus did for you and ask him to forgive you for the sins you’ve committed.  Ask him to make you a new person, full of the kind of abundant life that he has promised to those who follow him.  Let him know that you trust him and want to be Christ’s follower and his child.

Remember, that when you tell God these things from your heart, God writes your name in the Book of Life.

All of this can happen in the back bedroom of your house or on the front seat of a cathedral.  It can happen in the middle of a field or at a kitchen table with a friend.  The most important thing to remember is that God really, truly loves and accepts you, just the way you are and wants to give you something that is really impossible to adequately describe.  What it is that God wants to give you can summed up as love.  He loves you and wants you to love him.

Bringing God into your life isn’t just about getting into heaven years from now.  It’s about experiencing the life changing power of God today.  Your life won’t magically change and become perfect when you become a Christian.  But going through life with the Lord means that you will have someone to go with you who is stronger than your weaknesses, wiser than any of your foolishness, deeper than any of your shallowness, and more meaningful than anything you will ever encounter.  Where there is brokenness in your life, God wants to bring healing.  Where there is shame or guilt, God wants to bring freedom.  Where there is confusion or meaninglessness, God wants to bring purpose and order to your life.

So call a Christian friend and tell him or her that you want to follow Christ.  Bow your head and just start praying.  The words don’t have to be fancy religious words.  Just speak from your heart and God will hear you and save you and start making you into a new person.

Need help? 

We’re available …more than available ... we really want you to call us!

                                Phil or Matt

816-734-2635                                         816-550-4842

Here’s a link to a flashier presentation of what was just said:

How to Know Jesus

What We Believe

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever.

Amen.

Our beliefs are summarized within the two historic creeds of the Christian faith,

the Apostle’s Creed and the Nicene Creed.

Apostle’s Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. 

And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord;

who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

born of the Virgin Mary,

suffered under Pontius Pilate,

was crucified, dead, and buried;

he descended into hell;

the third day he rose again from the dead;

he ascended into heaven,

and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;

from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. 

I believe in the Holy Spirit;

the holy catholic Church;

the communion of saints;

the forgiveness of sins;

the resurrection of the body;

and the life everlasting. AMEN.

Nicene Creed

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen. 

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.

Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end. 

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.

We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen. 

The Bible

We believe the Bible is the God’s Word which guides us in who God is and how we are to be in relationship with him as well as how we are to be in relationship with ourselves and with other people.

Holy Communion

Communion is celebrated at Levi’s House in its most basic way.  There is very little ritual.  Each person is handed a bite-sized piece of bread.  And then a cup of wine or juice is passed in front of each person so that the bread is dipped slightly into the wine and then eaten.  Some people might not wish to take communion … that’s okay.  Just keep your hands folded when one of us comes by with the bread.  You have your reasons and unless you tell us, we won’t pry.  If you decide later to take communion on another Sunday, just lift your hand up and let one of us put the piece of bread in your hand.  No big drama.  It’s between you and God. 

Communion has been observed by Christians since the night before Jesus was crucified.  Jesus said that the bread is his body.  He said that the wine is his blood.  When we take the bread and wine, we are taking Christ into our lives as a sign of our faith in him and in the belief that he will strengthen us in our walk with him and the living out of our faith.  We are declaring by this simple act that Jesus died for our sins, that he was raised from the dead and that he will return someday to establish an everlasting kingdom.  Communion is not magic.  It is an act of faith in Christ.  You do not have to be a “member” of Levi’s House or any other church to take communion.  You are not required to have been baptized to take communion.  You simply need to believe that Jesus is Lord.

Holy Baptism

Baptism has been observed for over two-thousand years, even before the time of Christ.  Essentially, it is an outward demonstration of one’s faith in Christ that he has removed or forgiven or “washed away” one’s sins.  Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River by his cousin, John.  He was immersed in the water…dunked, dipped, however you want to describe it and the Spirit of God came upon him. 

A person who decides to follow Christ, being baptized in this manner, is taken to a pool or a river or a lake or even to another church that has a pool for this purpose.  The pastor gets into the water with the new Christian and holds him as he is lowered briefly into the water, covering their whole body and then quickly lifted up out of the water. 

The pastor does this after saying the following words:

“(Name), I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of

the Holy Spirit. Amen"

Throughout the history of the Christian church, two other modes of baptism have been observed: sprinkling and pouring.  In each, a small amount of water is simply sprinkled or poured on the head of the new Christian. 

If you wish to be baptized or you have questions about being baptized, speak with Phil or Matt.

Levi's House - Who We Are

Levi’s House is a group of Christians that meets most of the time in private homes for worship and fellowship.  The group averages between 12 and 15 persons.  We have been meeting since September 16, 2007.

• Phil and Matt Appling are a father-son team who share the pastoral and teaching responsibilities of the church.
• Jake Pullen is our musician-song leader.  He plays the guitar. 
• Les Holmes and Kip Pardon are our two active elders.
• Susan Brandom is our treasurer.
• The congregation as a whole is largely responsible for most decisions.

Levi’s House is an independent church

We have no denominational affiliation but we recognize that God gathers his people in all kinds of groupings, denominational as well as independent.  All true churches have their calling from God.

• Our purpose is to worship God through Jesus Christ
• To strengthen and support each other in our daily lives
• To put the Gospel of Jesus Christ into action through our words and deeds

Jesus’ Big Idea was the Church 

A gathering of people who believe in him, pray to him and support each other in their desire to live lives that honor God.  It was a simple idea.  It didn’t involve large buildings or intricate organizations or complicated and ritualized worship services.  It was a simple gathering of friends, most of the time in private homes.  It wasn’t until the fourth century that buildings started being built and those buildings called churches.  Somewhere along the centuries of time the idea of a simple gathering of friends got lost among large buildings, massive financial campaigns, highly elevated pastors and priests and preachers, political and economic agendas and ever-growing bureaucratic organizations.

Our church is a simple gathering of friends that tries to be like the church of Jesus’ original big idea. 

We don’t own a building 

The subject never comes up.  What God will do in the future is his business.  Churches with buildings are neither good nor bad.  For now, the Lord hasn’t led us to construct or buy or even rent a building.  He’s in charge and we’ll do our best to let Him stay in charge, building or no building.  We have never lacked for a suitable place to meet.  We have been able to do some remarkable things because we don’t have a mortgage or rent to pay.

Our usual gathering place is on Sundays at 10:30 AM

At the home of:

Phil and Linda Appling 

209 NW 101^st Street

Kansas City, Missouri  64155

816-734-2635

Just walk on in through the front door. 

No need to ring the door bell. 

Go into the kitchen and turn to the right down the stairs to the family room. 

Don’t worry if you’re late.  We’re not always on time!

We have one or two special gatherings each year in the evening or at a place other than one of our homes.  One Sunday we all gathered at the airport as Phil was departing for his mission trip to Sudan.  We’ve been known to meet at Oak Grove Park sometimes in the summer.  Another Sunday we all gathered at a homeless shelter in Kansas City.

Our worship service ...

includes singing

prayer

a lesson presented by one of the pastors

and

Communion

followed by a short prayer.

 For more about Communion and Baptism, see the section “We Believe.”

Financial contributions are placed in a basket on the kitchen counter. 

Everyone gives as they have been blessed by God and as their conscience leads them to give.  Contributions are known only to the treasurer and are otherwise confidential unless revealed by the contributor.  No pledge cards or offering envelops are used and a collection basket is not passed during worship.  A financial statement is made available to everyone once a month. 

We like to eat together after our time of worship. 

It appears that the church in earliest times ate together most of the times they met.  For us, this is a meal or snack and might be anything from cookies or brownies or a dessert, to sandwiches, chili, and fresh fruit and vegetables all the way up to a big pot-luck dinner.  Sometimes it’s all home-made.  Sometimes it comes straight from the store.  Members simply sign up for bringing something to eat for the whole group on a sign-up sheet lying on the kitchen counter next to the basket where financial contributions are collected.  No one is asked or pressured.  Eat with us regardless of whether you have ever brought anything yourself.  This just happens and everyone enjoys being together each Sunday with something to eat and with new or old friends to visit with.

Our dress-code is very strict!  

Everyone is required to wear what is comfortable for them. None of the guys have worn a tie, yet.  But if they wanted to, that would be okay.  The gals don’t usually wear dresses, but if one of them wanted to start wearing sequined evening gowns, that would be fine if that’s what made them feel comfortable.  Jeans are pretty popular among the group, but if you want to wear silk pajamas or an expensive Italian suit, that’s fine, too.

Requirements: 

You don’t have to be a perfect person.  You might have some real hang-ups.  Maybe there are things in your past or even presently in your life that you’d rather remain private.  If there’s things that you struggle over that don’t seem to have any clear answers, that’s okay. 

Maybe you have really messed up your life in one way or another.  Maybe you have things so deep and dark and secret that you don’t think you’d be welcome in a gathering like this.  Maybe you aren’t even sure you believe in God.  Possibly you had a painful childhood or you lost your way in life.  Maybe you don’t have any friends, or don’t have very many friends.  Some of us can’t sing very well.  Most of us don’t read the Bible as much as we know we should.  We all forget to pray when we know that would be a good idea.  Some of us have doubts.  Some of us might have been addicted to something or are presently secretly struggling with something we don’t want anyone to know about. 

If you are just a normal person who isn’t perfect and has made some mistakes and doesn’t have all the answers and wonders if God loves you and tries but fails to do the right thing all the time, and loses their temper from time to time and tries to look like you have your act together but sometimes you don’t know at all what you’re doing, and maybe you wish you had someone you could trust just to talk to about it all without worrying that you’ll be condemned … then this is where you belong!

Your invitation is an open one

Visit once or twice.  Come back when you want to.  No reservations necessary.  Bring someone with you if you wish.  Don’t worry about us having enough space.  We have extra chairs to set up when they are needed.  We’ve had groups where the room and every seat was occupied, even one or two people sitting on the steps coming down from the kitchen.  We’ve met with only four or five people.  Some have attended once and then returned months later.  Others have attended once and never returned.  Some have attended once and never missed a gathering since that first time. There is one of our group who is in her third year of life and learning to talk.  There are others with hair that is getting thinner and grayer.  There are members in their teens, twenties, thirties, forties … and older.  Some are married and others are single.  Some have been active in the Christian faith since they were children.  Others have found a meaningful relationship with God only in recent years. 

The one thing that we all have in common is a desire to know God and to have friends. 

If you fit that description, then you ought to spend a morning with us to see if this group fits your needs.

Questions?  Call or email:

                Phil Appling – 816-734-2635 – mpa@kc.rr.com

              

                Matt Appling – 816-550-4842 - mappling@hotmail.com

Welcome to the Levi’s House Blog

We’ve been going strong since September 2007 and it seems like a good idea to have a site where we can talk about who we are, what we are doing and what is important to our group.  We also have pictures from time to time and this will be a good place to post some of them.  If you have pictures that you would like posted on our blog site, just send them to me and I’ll insert them into our blog conversation.

Ainsley Pardon

Feedback!  Feedback!  Feedback!

Over the centuries of time preachers and prophets have had the job of telling people what they think God wants them to hear.  Sometimes that was good news, like when Moses told the Israelites that God was sick of seeing them in slavery.  Other times preachers and prophets relayed messages from the Lord that didn’t go over well at all.  It’s actually not too difficult to find these guys throughout history getting stoned or hung or finished off in some other fashion.  For a lot of these guys death wasn’t the worst of it.  They were smeared and ruined and run out of town.  (And you thought preacher-types were in it for the money!)

Darlene Teague

All of that noise and fury as well as cheers leveled at the preachers is just old fashioned feedback.  People told these guys their opinions about what they were preaching.  In one town, the people drug Paul outside of the city limits and stoned him.  They thought he was dead, so they left his body out in the open to be disposed of by the wild animals. 

Trina Pardon

But Paul fooled them.  He wasn’t quite dead and his traveling companion and doctor, Luke, got him back on his feet and on his way to the next town, where they hated him just as much.  Paul always traveled with a doctor for a reason.  He needed a doctor and he and Luke were great friends.  Paul was an older guy and Luke a younger doctor.  They were closer than brothers.

Phil Appling, Les Holmes, Kip Pardon

Matt and I need your feedback.  We need to know when our words make you think, cause you to get closer to God and when what we say just falls flat.  Both of us work hard to say something that is meaningful and helpful on Sundays and we need to know if we are hitting the mark or just putting you to sleep.  If you want to bring a rotten tomato to church, just in case our words warrant it, then at least we’d know that we haven’t put you to sleep.  But we would really appreciate it if we could have a heart to heart conversation before you chose to throw rocks.

Susan Brandom, Linda Appling

A Purpose Driven Church

I don’t know if we ever really put it down in black and white what our purpose was.  But as I have thought about what our purpose should be and what we have been doing, I have to say that we’ve been doing really well.

Matt and Cheri Appling

I have never been in a church that wasn’t scratching for money.  As the former pastor of some institutional and denominational churches, I can tell you that my stomach was usually in knots starting in July and running through the rest of the year.  That’s because attendance drives contributions and institutional churches usually have a big overhead.  They have buildings and utilities and full-time salaries.  Summer attendance in an institutional church is always lower and so the contributions is always behind. 

Jake and Nicki Pullen

Close behind the summer worries would be the end of the year denominational obligations that would be due by January 1^st.  Talk about pressure!  The bishop or the superintendent or the conference or the presbytery or the general assembly or the area-wide commission, all would expect the local church to pony up their fair share of the expenses of the larger organization.  At one point, those obligations were as much as 25% of the local church’s total contributions!!! 

Darlene Teague, Jake Pullen, Carsen Teague

It was always a strain and I had to try to keep a positive face on all of it.  And because the larger organization’s expectations were largely tied to their budgets to pay for their light bills and mortgages and salaries, few, and sometimes none, of those dollars were spent on feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, housing the homeless, lifting up the down-hearted or even preaching the Gospel. 

But we don’t belong to that club.  We don’t have a mortgage or rent to pay.  We don’t have utilities.  We have a little bit of overhead.  Along with those factors, it seems clear that all of you are doing a great job of making generous contributions.  Because of your generousity and our particular situation, we were able to do some really significant things for the sake of the Kingdom of God which spread the Gospel and helped other people who needed the help.

Phil and Linda Appling

If one of the purposes of a church is to reach out to other people, then Levi’s House has truly done that this past year.  I’m telling you this because you have reason to be happy about what you as a group have done and so that you’ll know that this is a worthy place to give your time and money in the future.  Just look at the Missions Report for 2010 and thank God that he gave us the ability and the motivation to do these things.

Austin and Christi visit with Susan Brandom

Heaven Can’t Wait

I’ve written a few lines on what it means to invite Christ into your life.  It’s not meant to be a “Four Spiritual Laws” formula of salvation.  It’s merely a conversation in print about developing a relationship with God that will last for all eternity.

Linda and Ansley coloring

Maybe you aren’t sure about where you stand with the Lord.  Or, you know someone who could use a little bit of encouragement to start that conversation and that friendship with Christ.  I’m putting these things in print and on paper so you can give them to people who might be interested.  And it’s online now with this blog so you can send this link to friends who might be interested in this subject.

Carson Teague

It would be really helpful if you would tell him or write about the when and where and why and how of your relationship with the Lord.  Some people know exactly when they started following the Lord.  Others aren’t really sure, but they know that he is an important part of their lives right now.  Whatever you want to share about how this came about would be welcome.

I hope you have a blessed Christmas and a happy new year …

And I hope to see you in the coming year as we continue our journey down this road together.

Phil

Give me some feedback!