Health Prayer System

Crossroads Church is currently engaged in twenty-one days of prayer and fasting. We began last Monday with over 250 people gathering at the church and over 180 more logged in to our live stream at mycrossroads.org. It's been so exciting to see our people going after God in these morning prayer meetings. 

We started the year off with a series called Health Plan. It has been said that if we fail to plan, we plan to fail. We need a plan for the health we desire to walk in. Our health is much more than just our physical well being. We need healthy families, healthy finances and, most importantly - We need to be spiritually healthy! This 21 days of prayer and fasting is part of our spiritual health plan. Instead of a health CARE system, you might say it's a health PRAYER system! 

Now Leading Our Students!

Last month we announced that our Student Pastors, Beau and Lauren Dore were taking a new assignment at a great church in Oklahoma City. We have very mixed emotions about their resignation. On the one hand we are bummed that we will no longer have this amazing couple on our team. On the other hand we are very excited for them and this new opportunity. 

Our primary concern is to find the right leader for our student ministry. One thing we definitely don't want to do is rush into a decision. Thankfully, we don't have to. 

I have asked our Staff Evangelist, Curvine Brewington to serve in an interim capacity until we are ready to make a long-term selection. Curvine was happy to step into this role and we are so excited that for the next six months our students will be led by one of the most sought-after youth communicators in the nation! 

We love Curvine and Candice Brewington so much and we're so excited to have them leading the youth of our church! 

Happy New Mercies!

I've always loved the promise in Lamentations 3:23 that God's mercies are new every morning. Most mornings I am keenly aware of how desperately I need new mercy. 

This past Sunday, as I was driving to the church on New Years Day, I thought of that passage and the idea struck me that if God has new mercy for each day, perhaps He has the same for each year. Perhaps the mercy He provides at the start of a new year is proportional, like the difference in the scope of a day verses a year. I have nothing to back up the theory, but the thought was comforting to me! Last year was a tough one. Don't get me wrong, lots of good things happened in 2016, but in many ways it was as tough a year as I've faced in a long, long time. I'm believing that 2017 has arrived with new mercies. 

Another one of my favorite verses is Psalm 145:9, which says that mercy is over all the works of God's hands. I am trusting that the new mercies God has provided for this new year will move His hand to work on our behalf in ways we can't imagine! 

Happy new year! And happy new mercies!