I’ve received an update that Siloam will not be at the Faith and Family Night at Harbor Yard on January 31, as I had previously mentioned. As far as I know, all other details remain the same.
Update on Faith And Family Night, January 31
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Faith And Family Night returns to Harbor Yard, January 31
The Bridgeport Sound Tigers hockey team will be hosting a Faith and Family Night on Saturday, January 31 at 7:00 PM at the Arena at HarborYard. Events include:
Pre-Game: Sanctuary Band in Tiger Den
1st Intermission: SiLOam Meet & Greet in Kid’s Club Atrium
2nd Intermission: 321 Hip Hop Group**
Post Game: Reggaton Group and All Access Dance performance** (** On Ice)
(Set up will be taking place for the SiLOam concert which will be on ice 15-20 min after the game. Fans can enjoy the concert from their seats in the stadium.)
Doors Open at 6 pm; Game Time is at 7 pm. An after party will follow the SiLOam Concert at “2 Boots” in Fairfield with more music and a family environment.
For more information on Faith & Family Night, or if you are interested in purchasing tickets, call (203) 334-4625, and ask for a Group Sales staff member.
Graham Jones ministering in Fairfield County, Feb. 3-5
From his ministry base in Saint Etienne France, Graham Jones from England ministers in many different countries every year. The Lord uses Graham particularly in the area of physical healing through simple faith in God’s promises and the manifest presence of God. Graham is involved in church planting and oversees churches in Europe, India and North America. Graham & his wife Léa are currently planting a new church in the town of St Etienne in the South of France.
Graham will be speaking on healing at St. Paul’s Darien (471 Mansfield Ave, Darien) at 7:30pm, Feb 3rd. He will also be ministering at the midweek service at Harvest Time Church (1338 King St., Greenwich) at 7pm, Feb 4th. Graham will be at Presbyterian Church of Old Greenwich (38 West End Avenue, Old Greenwich, CT) on the evening of February 5th, time to be announced.
More information on Graham’s ministry is available at www.gjmi.org.
Fire and Fragrance Conference in West Haven, Jan. 29-31
Gateway Christian Fellowship in West Haven will host a Fire and Fragrance Conference on January 29-31, 2009 at 7:00 pm each night. Featured are James Levesque, Jamie Dickson, and Sean Feucht.
James Levesque, 28, ministers powerfully in the prophetic under an open-heaven atmosphere. After a life changing encounter with God in his teen years, he has operated as an evangelist and a church planter. James has a burning passion to see people step into divine destiny through a mighty move of God. Most recently, he has started Engaging Heaven Ministries, a committed team of radical believers who long to see Christ’s fullness established on the earth. Through crusades, a fresh approach to street ministry, teaching and training, James has a vision to see New England, the nation and the world changed by the power of Jesus Christ.
Jamie Dickson is a visionary leader who longs to see an entire generation equipped and mobilized to walk in the fullness of their destiny and purpose as a generation; to be the Revelation 19, bride prepared for His coming. His cry is for the college campuses and the High Schools of America to be awakened by the full knowledge and revelation of Jesus Christ. He sees the restoring of 24/7 prayer and the reclaiming of the creative expressions of heaven, not just an option but a mandate given to the emerging generation. Jamie currently resides in the beautiful state of Maine and is the pastor of CRAVE ministries, and assists in pastor duties for Lighthouse Christian Fellowships, he also helps over see the Maine House of Prayer Network. Ministry began for Jamie 4 years ago at the age of 17, when he began RAIN ministries in Cleveland, OH. It was here, at these raw and desperate gatherings, Jamie first experienced the supernatural outpouring of the Holy Spirit, visitations, and encounters and was pressed with the vision for His generation. And he is still on that journey.
Sean Feucht is the founder and director of the Burn 24-7 which holds its global headquarters in Dallas, Texas. He is a prophetic psalmist with a vision for planting Davidic houses of vertical worship and prayer and “resting places” for God in cities and nations all over the earth. Sean has a passion to see people of all nations come into their destiny to release the sounds and fragrance of Heaven through night and day worship and prayer that will usher in the Presence of God transforming, block by block, city by city, region by region and nation by nation until all of the world burns with the Glory of God. His unquenchable fire for the heart of God has been leading him into the darkest nations of the world full time since 2006 with Burn 24-7. Sean is worldwide conference speaker, teacher, and worship leader that has released five full-length worship albums and teaching resources that are available for purchase and download at www.seanfeucht.com and www.theburn247.com.
John Rankin: Connecticut’s man on Mars Hill
I’m happy to see that John Rankin is blogging more actively these days. John is the President of the Theological Education Institute (a great resource) and is one of the smartest – and nicest – people you are likely to meet in Christian circles in Connecticut. He’s done a great work in explaining the Gospel and engaging in “pre-evangelism” with people often thought to be too hostile to approach, appealing to the image of God and the foundational elements for all societies laid out in Genesis.
John’s debates and dialogues with nonbelievers on college campuses and other forums always make for compelling (and instructive) reading, as seen in this account from the Theological Education Institute website:
…we are all created in the image of God; we are the crown of his creation. In grasping this reality, we come to understand a common ground that is truly universal.
At a debate in April 1989, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, I spontaneously articulated some elements of the image of God. I was questioned about the issue of rape and incest. A young woman believed that the right to have an abortion should be available to those who became pregnant by such a violent act.
I began to frame my response by looking directly at her and saying: “In your life, are you like me, seeking the qualities of peace, order, stability and hope?” As I spoke these words, I had her eyeball-to-eyeball attention, and the hundreds of students and faculty in the Sayles auditorium came to a hush. The century old seats, bolted to the floor, always creaking at the slightest movement, also ceased their chatter, producing a moment of intense focus. She said, “Yes.”
I then said, “Is it also fair for me to assume, that like me, you also seek to live, to love, to laugh and to learn?” Again, the same focus of intensity defined the audience, the seats unmoving, and again she said, “Yes.”
So I continued, “Then there is far more that unites us than divides us – we are seeking the same qualities. The question is, in the face of the hell of rape and incest, does abortion unrape the woman and restore to her the lost qualities of peace, order, stability and hope? Or does the abortion only add further brokenness?”
The room continued its quiet, and I could have left the issue there. I knew that the resonation with the image of God, as represented by these qualities, was so complete in that moment that most students and faculty could answer the question themselves and deduce from there the reality I was addressing.
Angel Food Ministries helping people in Connecticut
Through the fine work of Church on the Rock in New Haven, I’ve recently become aware of Angel Food Ministries. This looks like a fantastic way to help those in need and those whose budgets are stretched too thin these days.
Pastor James Roundtree says:
Angel Food provides individuals and families with fresh, brand name food for a fraction of the retail price. By purchasing food in bulk, directly from some of the top suppliers in the country, food is discounted by up to 50% of retail. A standard medium-sized box of food may be purchased for $30, and contains top quality food staples from every food group, including chicken or beef, milk, eggs, vegetables and fruits. Each of the regular boxes of food feeds a family of four for about one week, or a single individual for almost a month. The menu selections vary each month, and consist of both fresh and frozen items, saving Americans money with no sacrifice to quality. There is even a box geared towards the nutritional needs of senior citizens.
Today, Angel Food Ministries serves hundreds of thousands of families across 37 states and the District of Columbia. Angel Food Ministries helps every local “host site” with direct financial donations in proportion with the number of units distributed from a site. Since 1994, over $14 million has been donated back to houses of worship, community centers and other “host sites” throughout the country. While some host sites have taken advantage of this benefit to help alleviate their own budget pressures, others have chosen to invest these funds back into the lives of the needy within their own communities. The choice is yours!
At the core of Angel Food’s mission is the promise of fresh food and quality nutrition.
Get involved or see host sites in your area by going to http://www.angelfoodministries.com/.
Fighting against the abortion of special needs children
Great little story from the Assemblies of God news service about people working to stop the selective abortion of special needs children.
Down syndrome advocates fear the pressure to terminate Down syndrome pregnancies can be overwhelming when parents are presented with the diagnosis and warned of the lifelong health challenges and varying degrees of mental retardation associated with the syndrome.
Add to that the rate of so-called “false positives” resulting from the current screening techniques, estimated as low as 2 percent to as high as 10 percent in various studies. The prenatal testing itself carries a risk of compromising a pregnancy.
“Sadly, many of those babies actually had no abnormalities,” laments Paula Wilburn, the mother of a child with Down syndrome and founder of Fun Coast Down Syndrome Association, a ministry of Praise Assembly of God in Bunnell, Florida, where she and husband Donald serve as senior pastors.
Wilburn and others fought for three years to get Congress to address the issue, and last September finally saw their efforts pay off when the House and Senate passed The Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act — a bill aimed at reducing the number of Down syndrome-related abortions in the United States.
In a nutshell, the act requires a pregnant woman receiving a Down diagnosis — prenatally or up to a year after birth — to be given current information about both the syndrome and referrals to support services and networks dedicated to assisting parents in raising a child with Down syndrome and other disabilities.
Roe + 36
Thirty-six years into this quiet holocaust even the blind are now coming to see that society has been drinking hemlock in the guise of champagne. America and the West have been toasting themselves and congratulating themselves on being rid of the old god and his inability to appreciate our desire to have a good time. And so our vocabulary becomes ever more clinical, our discourse ever more shallow. Political enemies are routinely and flippantly demonized as Nazis, as the West ironically continues to absorb and inculcate to its young the Nazi ethos nearly in its entirety. Moral relativism, utilitarianism and depersonalization have written DNR on our collective chart.
No better epitaph could be written than that penned by Paul 1,950 years ago:
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
I hope we continue to pray against this scourge of abortion even after the attention it receives in January fades away.
Connecticut unemployment up over 7%
The State lost 25,000 jobs in the 4th quarter of 2008 and unemployment went up to 7.1%, just a hair below the national average of 7.2%. More here from Hartford Business Journal.
Churches support “Fifth Friday” prayer on January 30
A number of churches are responding to Connecticut House of Prayer’s call for united prayer for revival on the “Fifth Fridays” of 2009, the first of which occurs on January 30. Meetings will be held at the following locations:
Ashford: United Baptist Church, 38 Pompey Hollow Rd (Rt 44) (1-3pm)
Bridgeport: United Kingdom Church, 1589 Stratford Avenue (Call 203-579-1579)
Danielson: Gospel Light Fellowship, 132 Wauregan Road (9-11am)
Darien: St. Paul’s Darien, 471 Mansfield Avenue (7-11pm)
Enfield: Calvary Presbyterian Church, 1518 King Street (7:30-9pm )
Hartford: Connecticut House of Prayer, Inc., 320 Brown Street (7-9pm)
New Britain: Calvary Christian Center, 265 West Main Street (9am-12pm)
Tolland: First Baptist Church, 75 Cider Mill Road (Call 860-871-0592)
Wallingford: Good News Christian Center, 46 John Street (6-7pm)