[honeychile]

Our God is an Awesome God - and when His people listen to Him, awesome things happen!! I'm so happy for you, MTSUGirl!!

My own mini-hijack: The church I belong to had a smallish congregation until just before I started. The pastor was SO anointed, there are now over 600 teenagers - teenagers!! who show up every Wednesday night! It's in a fairly affluent area, and the kids (middle and high school) have taken on the project of a small town in Appalachia. They raise money during the year, and then take turns spending part of their summers there: cleaning, mending, painting, teaching the kids who would normally be in summer school, etc. They feel a sense of responsibility and "ownership" that no other project could have done! I am so proud of these kids - they're learning to give freely from their own pocket (so to speak), and values that their own schools don't teach!

ps - I should state that my pastor is originally from Appalachia, which explains why they have an "in" there, but they have to spend a turn in the inner city before they get to go there.