Family In Need!!!

As many of you may have heard there was a family in Lacomb this week whose home burned down. The family lost everything, and they are definitely in need. The Red Cross and Christ Walk have put them up in a hotel for now, but they truly lost everything except the clothes on their backs. I have received a list of things that they are in need of as well as clothing sizes. If anyone is willing and able you and your home community could help with groceries, gift cards, clothes, laptops, etc... I will list the sizes below as well as a link to the article that was in the paper if you have not already seen it. Let me know how you and your home community can help and I will help connect you with the family.

Thanks,

John

Newspaper Article

Items needed for family that lost their home to a fire, they did not have insurance. There were 2 families living in the home.

Female 35

Pants Size 6

Shirt Medium

Shoe Size 8

Female 34

Pants Size 2-3

Shirt Small

Shoe Size 7

Boy 13

Pants Size 14

Shirt Size 14

Shoe Size 8

Boy Age 12

Pants and shirt size 12-14

Shoe Size 7

Boy age 3

Pants/Shirt Size 3T-4T

Shoe 8 ½ toddler

Girl Age 10

Pant Size 8

Shirt Medium

Shoe size 3 ½

Girl age 12

Pant Size 12

Shirt Medium

Shoe size 5

A Call To Prayer

As we come to the end of our second week in the Gospel Centered Life I want to call you to prayer. By now the hype of starting a new series may have worn off and we enter into a time of being faithfully committed to learning what God desires to teach our church through this series. It is so easy to forget what God has called us to in our lives, and to revert back to a mentality of going through the motions. To show up on Sundays and your home community gatherings just to say you've been a part of the series. The truth of the matter is that we all need to be changed. We are all too stagnant in our faith. We all need to have a fuller understanding of the cross, and our need to actually share this good news with our neighbors, friends, co-workers, etc... It is at this time that I call you to prayer, pray that God would engage you to change. That God would transform you into a megaphone proclaiming the gospel. Pray that God would bring new Christians to the church not through others, but through you.

In Colossians 4:2-6 Paul writes, "Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone."


Pray that God may open doors of opportunity for you. Pray that you will proclaim it clearly, and make the most of every opportunity.


Praying for you.