What happened to me last Thursday.

For those of you are wondering what happened to me last Thursday. - I was enjoying a leisurely morning when I heard the sound of sirens pulling up outside my house. I looked out the window to see a team of paramedics pulling up to my neighbors house. As they pulled up, my neighbor (Henriqua) ran out of the house with her 3 month old infant who had stopped breathing. They rushed the baby to the hospital in the ambulance and I joined Henriqua in a squad car on the way to the hospital.
Upon arriving at the hospital we were escorted to a room where we could cry, and pray and wait. After an eternity, the doctor came in to tell us that the baby had died.

Darnell was the last surviving baby of Henriqua's triplets. The first two died in childbirth, but Darnell survived. He was diagnosed with minor lung problems, but those problems were enough that they eventually stopped his heart while he was asleep.
This I know - No Mother should ever have to experience the death of her child. If ever there was a time to cling to the goodness of God, and to burn with hatred for evil - today is that day.

I wanted to thank all of you who prayed. Peace and Grace won out the day. I will be conducting a memorial service on Thursday at 11am and I also volunteered myself to bring flowers. I really appreciated all of the support through twitter and facebook. I got many of your prayers right after we received word that Darnell had died. If any of you would like to participate further, you may donate flowers by bringing them to the office on Tuesday or Wednesday or send me some money (drop at the office or click on the donate button) and I will purchase them for you.

In the meantime. Praise God for His mercies are new every morning.

To Do Justly, to Love Mercy and to Walk Humbly

Does anybody else find themselves spending a lot of time thinking about the future? There are a number of things that seem to push our thoughts forward. Have you ever planned a really, really great vacation months in advance, and then found yourself daydreaming about the day that you will finally get to go! Or have you ever been so freezing cold that all you could do is think about how nice it will be when you finally get back into the warmth? Our thoughts always turn towards the future when change is imminent. Beginnings and endings especially grab our attention. We are forever saying things like, "I can't wait until this day is over", or "I can't wait until tomorrow."
It is this capacity to look forward that separates us from the rest of creation. We alone insist on occupying ourselves with what we will eat and what we will wear. Isn't it interesting that God gave us this unique ability and then commands us not to use it! We were not created to worry, we were created to dream. God's plan from the beginning has been to entrust us with establishing His kingdom on the earth and in order for us to accomplish this task, we must be able to dream about what that kingdom might look like!
Ever since this dream took a hold of my life I have become obsessed with seeing the love of God poured out over all people. Ever since I became convinced that Justice and Mercy will eventually fill the entire earth, I have become distinctly aware of the fact that injustice and cruelty are still winning in a lot of places.

In fact, I don't like to talk about the places that we are losing. I would much rather celebrate our victories than mourn over our defeats. However, there is a burden that I simply cannot shake.... a sense of obligation to those whose lives have been destroyed by the enemy. I need to mourn with those who are mourning... and I need to turn my attention to the places that Satan's will is being done, and I need to prophecy an end to the evil that he brings.

So... from a place of reluctance, I need to draw your attention to a few places on the earth in which we are losing, Satan is winning, and because of who we are called to be, we are obligated to act.

Did you know that there are people in our church whose friends and families have been systematically hunted down and murdered?

Did you know that there are people in our church who were forced to flee their homes and countries because their lives were threatened because of their faith in Jesus Christ?

Did you know that there are people right now, in this very 24 hours, who are being tortured to death in front of their families just because of the language that they speak?

I am talking about the ongoing atrocities that are occurring in Sudan and Burma.

Please take a moment and watch this video and leave some feedback below.

You can click here to learn more about this and other ongoing human rights violations around the world. 

Remember: There IS hope for these situations. .... it's you.

Click here to help rescue a child from a refugee camp. Be sure to watch the video on this page also. You may notice some people that you are familiar with.