OVCF!!

Today I was privileged to get to share my passion for this journey to Venezuela, and my passion for the university students in Venezuela with the Olympic Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Port Angeles, WA. Sequim, WA is my hometown, about a half an hour from Port Angeles. But I "grew up" in OVCF. I was only up front for a short while, and it FELT even shorter than it was, but I know that God was speaking through me. I looked down at my paper of notes afterwards, and hardly any of it was said - I think I was truly speaking in the spirit, I said what God wanted me to say - not what I wanted to say - and I'm SO GLAD!! In my own selfish fallen pride there is no way that I could have communicated the passion and love that God has for the Venezuelan students the way that only His spirit could. God is so good!

More than that, I was incredibly blessed by the number of people who signed up to be on my team of "Prayer Warriors" and to contemplate financially supporting (my) God's mission in Venezuela. I walked away just feeling surrounded by a loving and supportive group of people who are committed to seeing Venezuela reached for Christ - praise God! The Spirit of God is moving in that church, for sure. The worship time was amazing, and I know that many people in the room felt God's presence. He has brought great people to this church to do great things, and I'm excited to see it.

On top of the large number of people who committed to praying for me, I was also blessed by receiving prayer numerous times, by numerous different people at church this morning. In my church (which is a huge megachurch) there's not a lot of hands on prayer, so it was really great to get that from the people in this church that I really respect, I was so honored that they wanted to pray for me. AND, I even got to pray for a couple friends in the church...and I will continue to pray for them. I hope, more than anything, that the things I said today were an encouragement to some of the people in church, and above all, a testament to the person and work of Jesus Christ!

So, to sum up, my "little hug" (if you're confused, read a couple posts earlier) for today was definitely the reception by the people of OCVF and their willingness to back me in this crazy venture and in taking this step of faith. No journey could ever be accomplished without the prayer of the faithful, and today I was truly blessed with seeing how many faithful people at OCVF were willing to take the step of faith with me.....