RECHARGE 9-9-09

During the first week of October, Karen and I will again be spending a week with our friends Justin and Shirley Stirrett in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. We will be teaching a weeklong course at their YWAM Discipleship Training School. This year, the Stirretts have specifically asked us to teach on spiritual gifts – including motivational gifts, the five-fold offices, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

That means I will be covering what amounts to seven or eight months worth of teaching in four days! Our prayer is that we will have the opportunity to introduce many of these DTS students to the Holy Spirit, and to the life and power that comes with His ministry in our lives. I need your help.

For the next few weeks, I want to use our time together on Wednesday nights to talk about the ministry of the Holy Spirit in today’s church. I want to dig into some of the Scriptures on this topic, but I also want to hear about your own experiences with the Holy Spirit Himself, and your experiences with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I would like to know what questions you yourself might have about this whole topic, and what questions you find that other believers that you interact with have.

What do you think are some of the most common misunderstandings about the Holy Spirit and His ministry? We can go as far as you want to with this study. If you have questions or thoughts about the way the various gifts work together in the body, we can discuss that too.

Please come to Wednesday Night recharge ready to share some of your thoughts on this topic. As always, we will let the Scripture, not just our own opinions or experiences be the final word. Hopefully we can all be refreshed and grow a bit in our own understanding.

If you have questions that you would like to have discussed, please email them to me at pastor@rmcmchurch.org. We will be meeting this week at 7 pm at the Riverway Picnic Area off McCabes lane west of Gunnison. See the map in the right hand column of this blog for directions.

SummerLife RECHARGE 9/2/09

Wow! September already. This week we will meet once again, by popular demand, at the Gunnison Mtn. Park, located 3 miles north of Almont in Taylor Canyon. If it is your first time to the park, don't be fooled by the first entrance, continue another 1/4 mile to the second entrance. As long as the weather holds, we will try to continue our outdoor meetings through September. That means starting the fire a bit earlier, but this has been a wonderful time together.

This week we will begin by sharing a few testimonies about what God has been doing and saying in our lives. After that, we will take a look at Psalm 103, and discuss the question, what is the difference between God's acts and His ways?

See you there at 7 pm.

SUMMERLIFE RECHARGE 8/26/09

THERE WILL BE NO MID-WEEK FOR THIS WEEK ONLY. We will begin again next week, on September 2nd, back at the Gunnison Mountain Park in Taylor Canyon. For the month of September, we will not be bringing the grill, but we will plan to have a campfire each Wednesday evening. Come and enjoy some beautiful Fall evenings, and the Word of God. See you there.

SUMMERLIFE RECHARGE 8/19/09

Recharge fans,

The Gunnison Mountain Park is once again open for business. We will be meeting there for Bible Study tomorrow night at 7. As the evenings are growing shorter (or the nights longer, or something) we are getting into prime campfire season. So we will plan to have a fire after our study time tomorrow night. If you want to bring marshmallows, or do smores, that will be the time. Any spell checker that does not know the word "smores" should never have been released!

I also wanted to notify you that we will not be having a midweek study on Wednesday the 26th of August. We will continue our outdoor meetings for as long as we can, hopefully right through September.

See you tomorrow night.

Change of Location for Tonight

Hey There Summer Life/Recharge Fans!

I took a quick drive up to the Gunnison Mtn Park today to check on rumors of it being blocked off. The rumors are true, apparently due to a controlled burn taking place in that area.

Let's meet up tonight at McAbes Lane instead. Check out the maps to the right if you need directions.

I've got some firewood and great thoughts on meditation - it'll be great - SEE YOU THERE!

Annie Callahan

RECHARGE 8/12/09

Next week's recharge will be held back up at the Gunnison Mountain Park in Taylor Canyon. This has become one of the group's favorite locations.

Annie Callahan will be leading, so come early and stay late.

EMERGENCY WEATHER ALERT!!!

Sorry guys, but I think it's going to be really ugly at the lake again tonight. It is already raining, thunder and lightning, and 26 to 38 mph winds out there. The shelter there just isn't that good, as we discovered last week.

So we will be meeting at the church in the Alcove at 7.

See you there,

John