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07.18.06 - Tuesday Update

The Breif: Ark of the Covenant Devotions, Battery Park preaching and music, tracts, World Trade Center, and Finger Rocket Wars.

What a great day to serve the Lord in the city. We had a blast working with Dr. Jones today. We started the morning with a challenge from Dr. Jones on witnessing using the Ark of the Covenant. He challenged us that the Ark reveals God’s charectar, His covenant, His covering for sins, and God’s Christ. We finished the meeting with prayer and immediately grabbed our stuff. Our stuff was the Ark of the Covenant, a massive sound system, our instruments, music and stands, and a lot of tracts. We headed to Battery Park and met the van there to unload. We set up in a shady area next to the line going to the Statue of Liberty. People were flooding by to get in line, see the park and buy from the vendors. After a quick meal at the vendors, we started our outdoor service. We sang through all our group numbers, interspersing testimonies and scripture readings. Andrew Acree read Isaiah 53, Randall gave his testimony, and I preached a message. The response was very good, and many people sat and listened to the entire service. We ran through a 35 minute service, and headed out to speak with people and pass out tracts. An hour later, we started back up and sang through our music again. Nathan gave a testimony, and Bill Jones preached a message. It was very moving to be singing the gospel songs to the crowds that were passing back and forth.

After our service, we packed up all our gear and passed by the World Trade Center Spot. We learned of the plans for the memorials and enjoyed the air conditioning in the World Financial Building. A jump back to the Jones’ place, and we enjoyed our dinner.

Before all the festivities of the day, a strange box arrived on the doorstep of the Angel House. It was filled with 50 finger rockets.

We threw out our schedule for the night and had an all out war on all three floors of the building. We shot, shielded, ducked, captured and squeeled most of the evening as we enjoyed the fun. Check out the pictures for more info. All in all our day was full and exciting. Thanks for all your prayers.

Prayer requests:

Pray for the Coffee and Cheesecake outreach tomorrow night
We open up the doors of the Angel House to the public and serve free desserts and cheesecake to people passing by. We promise good dessert and life-changing conversations. We are excited about the oppurtunity. It begins at 8:00pm.

Pray for energy and strength
We are alot. Pray that God would continue to uphold us.

Pray for the power of the gospel.
We have passed out alot of tracts, pray for a harvest of souls from God’s word!