Discovering the Real Jesus in Monroe

I’m with about 40 members of our church at our annual renewal conference in Green Lake, Wisconsin this week. Holly Benner is leading worship, with myself, my wife Linda, David Reaume, and Trevor Robinson being the rest of the team. Charlie and Michael Hammill are doing the sound system, and Lisa Dubois is doing the AV system (words to the songs).

There are over 500 people at this conference, and they are from all over the place. Kris Valotten & Danny Silk from Bill Johnson’s church has been doing a great job teaching and preaching.

Some people from Texas drove all the way to be with us just to hear Kris and Danny preach and teach.

On another note: An Orthodox priest who has recently discovered the empowering presence of God’s Holy Spirit is here. Last night he was asking God for help. I got to pray with him. He and I traded phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and we will be talking together – hopefully a lot.

We are all having a tremendous week of renewal and empowerment and learning!

Last night I, Josh Bentley, and Holly told the people about our coming Redeemer Ministry School. We brought fliers to hand out, esp. to pastors and to any youth and young adults interested in spending a year with us beginning in Sept. 2008.

I will speak at the Friday morning session.

Then, back to Monroe next week!