How To Treat Your Kids After Camp
From Pastor Mark Beeson We're praying we can implement these suggestions with People's Church kidsafter this weekend. At an altar of prayer campers knelt and made commitments - some to follow
Christ, some to accept forgiveness, some to enter full-time vocational
ministry and some to turn from sin. Some simply said, "Yes. God, I'll do
what you want, go where you want, say what you want and live as you want." When your camper gets home, I suggest you do three things: 1. Let them sleep. Let them sleep a lot. Fatigue is an enemy and they'll be at their best when they have had some
rest. 2. Don't tap the brake. Fight any temptation you may have to "temper" their enthusiasm for Christ.
Even if they make bold and unusual statements like, "I'm going to win all my
friends to Christ," or "I'm going to start carrying my Bible to school with
me." Even then, don't yield to your temptation to suggest they calm down,
slow down or lower their expectations. Let them dream. Let them step-up to
a new level of devotion and commitment. Let them feel your support - even
when they're attempting something that can only happen if Almighty God steps
in and makes it so. (Because Almighty God just might!) 3. Say, "That's great," or "That's awesome," a lot. When they tell you a story about camp, say, "Tell me more about that." When
they talk about the steps they took toward Christ, say, "That's wonderful.
I'm proud of you." Your encouragement means more to them than mine. Your
encouragement means more to them than the encouragement of their camp
counselors. Encourage them - and watch them grow! 1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Encourage each other and build each other up, just
as you are already doing.
From Pastor Mark Beeson
We're praying we can implement these suggestions with People's Church kidsafter this weekend. At an altar of prayer campers knelt and made commitments - some to follow
Christ, some to accept forgiveness, some to enter full-time vocational
ministry and some to turn from sin. Some simply said, "Yes. God, I'll do
what you want, go where you want, say what you want and live as you want." When your camper gets home, I suggest you do three things: 1. Let them sleep. Let them sleep a lot. Fatigue is an enemy and they'll be at their best when they have had some
rest. 2. Don't tap the brake. Fight any temptation you may have to "temper" their enthusiasm for Christ.
Even if they make bold and unusual statements like, "I'm going to win all my
friends to Christ," or "I'm going to start carrying my Bible to school with
me." Even then, don't yield to your temptation to suggest they calm down,
slow down or lower their expectations. Let them dream. Let them step-up to
a new level of devotion and commitment. Let them feel your support - even
when they're attempting something that can only happen if Almighty God steps
in and makes it so. (Because Almighty God just might!) 3. Say, "That's great," or "That's awesome," a lot. When they tell you a story about camp, say, "Tell me more about that." When
they talk about the steps they took toward Christ, say, "That's wonderful.
I'm proud of you." Your encouragement means more to them than mine. Your
encouragement means more to them than the encouragement of their camp
counselors. Encourage them - and watch them grow! 1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Encourage each other and build each other up, just
as you are already doing.
Who else will God call to go to Nepal?FW: Pray for Rhonda
From Bryan Nerren: Please pray for my wife Rhonda, during the Saturday night service the Lordspoke to her in a wonderfully powerful way to go to Nepal this year. This is
very hard for her to leave Laura with someone else for two weeks. Your
prayers will bring her the strength she needs. The other members of the
travel team need your prayers also. We have two week to go for additional
team members to be added. Inculding Rhonda we have two new members added
this week. The Nepal team this year is Rhonda and Bryan, Dr.Amy and Matt
Hardison, Sheila Reed, Judy Bowles, Ken Lund, Glenn Sheppard, Jeremy Hall,
Katrina Leverette, Dr. Beth Meerdink, Ema Hixes, Drew Hayes, Kevin Peavy.
Please pray for us all everyday.
From Bryan Nerren:
Please pray for my wife Rhonda, during the Saturday night service the Lordspoke to her in a wonderfully powerful way to go to Nepal this year. This is
very hard for her to leave Laura with someone else for two weeks. Your
prayers will bring her the strength she needs. The other members of the
travel team need your prayers also. We have two week to go for additional
team members to be added. Inculding Rhonda we have two new members added
this week. The Nepal team this year is Rhonda and Bryan, Dr.Amy and Matt
Hardison, Sheila Reed, Judy Bowles, Ken Lund, Glenn Sheppard, Jeremy Hall,
Katrina Leverette, Dr. Beth Meerdink, Ema Hixes, Drew Hayes, Kevin Peavy.
Please pray for us all everyday.
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Coffee and Nepal Missions
From Pastor Bryan Nerren: Over the past few months I have been working with green coffee beans thatthe boys shipped me from Nepal. There is an emerging Coffee World growing in
Nepal. The foothills of Nepal what we would call mountains is ideal for
growing tea and coffee. Nepal has long been the top producer of Tea to the
world and now the Coffee market will soon be joining it. We are trying to
market coffee here in the USA from Nepal. There is only one source of coffee
from Nepal to the US and it is very small. At the risk of being kicked out
of Rhonda's house I have mastered coffee roasting and grinding producing the
best cup of coffee you will ever taste. There is no better coffee on earth
that I know of and it is 100% organic. Please pray for work with this
project as we develop a Christian Coffee Growers Association in Nepal. We
want to help them establish solid businesses that will never cause them to
become dependant on Mission Money for a life time as has happened to most of
South and Central America along with Africa. Nepal is our burden that we
have prayed for for years and now the freedom of this nation needs resources
for living. It you have a contact in the coffee world that is interested in
importing Himalayan Coffee please help me help them.
From Pastor Bryan Nerren:
Over the past few months I have been working with green coffee beans thatthe boys shipped me from Nepal. There is an emerging Coffee World growing in
Nepal. The foothills of Nepal what we would call mountains is ideal for
growing tea and coffee. Nepal has long been the top producer of Tea to the
world and now the Coffee market will soon be joining it. We are trying to
market coffee here in the USA from Nepal. There is only one source of coffee
from Nepal to the US and it is very small. At the risk of being kicked out
of Rhonda's house I have mastered coffee roasting and grinding producing the
best cup of coffee you will ever taste. There is no better coffee on earth
that I know of and it is 100% organic. Please pray for work with this
project as we develop a Christian Coffee Growers Association in Nepal. We
want to help them establish solid businesses that will never cause them to
become dependant on Mission Money for a life time as has happened to most of
South and Central America along with Africa. Nepal is our burden that we
have prayed for for years and now the freedom of this nation needs resources
for living. It you have a contact in the coffee world that is interested in
importing Himalayan Coffee please help me help them.
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Revival Hits East TennesseeFW: Jim Gore sent you a message on Facebook...
From Jim Gore, with a link to more details on the pastor's blog:"Drew, you would not believe what God has done in the last week over here in Sevier County. Something highly unusual has broken out here, spontaneously and intensely. YOU NEED TO COME SEE THIS FOR YOURSELF! I'm telling you. Three-hour prayer services with hundreds of saints weeping in brokenness, crying out to God. I've never seen or experienced anything like it. I am completely transformed by it. I am not the same believer I was a week ago, and I never will be again. The Holy Spirit has shown up in Sevierville, TN, and it's not an exaggeration to say that it's in a genuine Upper Room fashion. We are LIVING OUT 2 Chronicles 7:14. GOD is being glorified. We are losing US and finding HIM and HIS HEART. I've been working at the church, helping the maintenance crew for several months. You know what became a topic of conversation this week? Keeping the carpet at the altar clean of snot, slobber, & tears. When's the last time you heard of a church needing carpet cleaning for the mess made by the tears of the saints? Please come. If you can get here THIS Wednesday, June 2nd, it'll be the last true "PRAYER" service before our Summer Series of special guests begins the following week with Gold City. Dr. Tim Lee will be preaching. We'll be praying. The Holy Spirit will be moving. Lives will be changed. I sound like a broken record, but you have to see this for yourself. It is absolutely supernatural in character and content. Man did not plan this or do this. GOD is up to something...BIG...BIG...TIME!! Love ya!"
Why should I (you) go to Nepal? Have you prayed about it?
From Bryan Nerren: Nepal Journal Advance: Why should I risk anything that is mine? If only the Lord wouldbless me then I would go and do something like Nepal. Are you here of your own strength and will or did someone sacrifice
something to reach you for the Kingdom of God? Why me Lord? I seem to have more bills and struggles to live than almost
anyone I know. You decided twenty years ago to let our daughter Laura be a
special needs child. I remember us saying I wish she could stay a sweet baby
forever, but surely you did not answer that prayer. For twenty years now she
has not spoken a word, she has never walked or eaten a bite without help.
She is a healthy lady now and hardly ever is sick. Every day of her life we
feed and change her clothes, and move her from place to place at 90 pounds.
This is the will of God for our lives and we gladly except that and love
Laura with all our hearts. As she turns 20 in a month from now we will
celebrate the blessing she has brought into our lives, as we silently ask
the questions, "Lord who will do this in 10 years when we are not strong
enough to do it anymore". You see I don't understand the reason why you
picked some to sacrifice so much while others prosper with so little effort.
Why would you call someone with my skills and lives disadvantages to be a
missionary to Nepal? Each year you bless and send us for close to a month to
work in a place that no other American Christians goes. Did you just call us
the Nepal Travel Team or are there hundreds more that just say no. Each year
that I go I lose a month's income from my second job that most of my friends
do not have to do. I leave my wife behind to suffer and worry about my
safety and how she will make it without steady income for her and Laura. You see I have all the same question that everyone else has yet I know of
only a few people that pay the price that we do to work for God and try to
be what God has ask us to do. And just in case you think I am complaining
don't. I have questions just like the rest of you that know deep in your
soul that you should sacrifice more for Nepal through going and giving.
However, the difference is I cannot stop until God screams stop. I will
know the joy that I have given the best I can even if it means leaving this
life with nothing to show for it but a big smile on the face of God. I don't
know how many souls of Nepal will spend eternity in Hell or Heaven, but God
being our help the balance will be shifted toward Heaven this year again
because we ADVANCED until the Lord screams stop. If you know you could go or give so much more yet you question if you
should. I want to hear the answer that you receive after praying. Surely if
God wants to use and is willing to use me he has something for you to do in
Nepal.
From Bryan Nerren:
Nepal Journal Advance: Why should I risk anything that is mine? If only the Lord wouldbless me then I would go and do something like Nepal. Are you here of your own strength and will or did someone sacrifice
something to reach you for the Kingdom of God? Why me Lord? I seem to have more bills and struggles to live than almost
anyone I know. You decided twenty years ago to let our daughter Laura be a
special needs child. I remember us saying I wish she could stay a sweet baby
forever, but surely you did not answer that prayer. For twenty years now she
has not spoken a word, she has never walked or eaten a bite without help.
She is a healthy lady now and hardly ever is sick. Every day of her life we
feed and change her clothes, and move her from place to place at 90 pounds.
This is the will of God for our lives and we gladly except that and love
Laura with all our hearts. As she turns 20 in a month from now we will
celebrate the blessing she has brought into our lives, as we silently ask
the questions, "Lord who will do this in 10 years when we are not strong
enough to do it anymore". You see I don't understand the reason why you
picked some to sacrifice so much while others prosper with so little effort.
Why would you call someone with my skills and lives disadvantages to be a
missionary to Nepal? Each year you bless and send us for close to a month to
work in a place that no other American Christians goes. Did you just call us
the Nepal Travel Team or are there hundreds more that just say no. Each year
that I go I lose a month's income from my second job that most of my friends
do not have to do. I leave my wife behind to suffer and worry about my
safety and how she will make it without steady income for her and Laura. You see I have all the same question that everyone else has yet I know of
only a few people that pay the price that we do to work for God and try to
be what God has ask us to do. And just in case you think I am complaining
don't. I have questions just like the rest of you that know deep in your
soul that you should sacrifice more for Nepal through going and giving.
However, the difference is I cannot stop until God screams stop. I will
know the joy that I have given the best I can even if it means leaving this
life with nothing to show for it but a big smile on the face of God. I don't
know how many souls of Nepal will spend eternity in Hell or Heaven, but God
being our help the balance will be shifted toward Heaven this year again
because we ADVANCED until the Lord screams stop. If you know you could go or give so much more yet you question if you
should. I want to hear the answer that you receive after praying. Surely if
God wants to use and is willing to use me he has something for you to do in
Nepal.
Wendy's Last Breath & God's Immediate Encouragement
Susan's mother enjoyed listening to the "Gaither videos" and had built upquite a collection. She attended two of their concerts with Susan's sister,
Amy, in Tupelo. About mid-morning yesterday, the family was at her bedside as her breathing
continued to grow slower and more shallow. One of the said, "We should be
playing some Gaither music." So Susan went into the den and brought the CD player, with music from one of
the videos on it, into the bedroom with the family. They listened for a few
minutes and then the song came on, "I Just Feel Like Something Good Is About
To Happen" (http://www.lala.com/song/576742292006136279). Susan said, "It's about to happen". Mee-maw's breathing had slowed to about
four breaths a minute. Just as the song ended, the color in her face
drained away and she breathed her last breath. God said to their hearts, "It's happened; and it's good."
Susan's mother enjoyed listening to the "Gaither videos" and had built up
quite a collection. She attended two of their concerts with Susan's sister,
Amy, in Tupelo.
continued to grow slower and more shallow. One of the said, "We should be
playing some Gaither music." So Susan went into the den and brought the CD player, with music from one of
the videos on it, into the bedroom with the family. They listened for a few
minutes and then the song came on, "I Just Feel Like Something Good Is About
To Happen" (http://www.lala.com/song/576742292006136279). Susan said, "It's about to happen". Mee-maw's breathing had slowed to about
four breaths a minute. Just as the song ended, the color in her face
drained away and she breathed her last breath. God said to their hearts, "It's happened; and it's good."
Wendy's Last Breath & God's Immediate Encouragement
Susan's mother enjoyed listening to the "Gaither videos" and had built up
quite a collection. She attended two of their concerts with Susan's sister,
Amy, in Tupelo.
continued to grow slower and more shallow. One of the said, "We should be
playing some Gaither music." So Susan went into the den and brought the CD player, with music from one of
the videos on it, into the bedroom with the family. They listened for a few
minutes and then the song came on, "I Just Feel Like Something Good Is About
To Happen" (http://www.lala.com/song/576742292006136279). Susan said, "It's about to happen". Mee-maw's breathing had slowed to about
four breaths a minute. Just as the song ended, the color in her face
drained away and she breathed her last breath. God said to their hearts, "It's happened; and it's good."
About Me
Drew HayesI'm a pastor -- but not your typical pastor, I hope.
In fact, if you meet me and don't know me, I hope you can't figure out I'm a pastor before we've had a chance to talk a while.
Too often, people too often run from pastors. I'm just a regular guy who has decided to bank my eternity on Jesus Christ. Everyone is banking on something or someone -- I'm banking that Jesus is who He said He is.
And I believe God's purpose for my life is to help people find God and become increasingly devoted followers of Jesus Christ. I believe the local church -- despite its many flaws -- is the hope of the world. Jesus banked His whole reputation and future on the church.
I help lead a church that is trying to be different than the ordinary church -- and is trying to help ordinary people become more than ordinary, not through religion but through a relationship with God.
We're a church for people who don't like church!
The People's Church is now 5 years old -- one church in two locations (Tullahoma and Shelbyville) with more locations to come. More info @ www.PeoplesChurchShelbyville.org or www.PeoplesChurchTullahoma.org.
I want to help people find God who are outside the traditional church through contemporary music, relevant messages, authentic service, casual dress and atmosphere, and a positive and inspirational mindset.
I have five children -- 23, 21, 18, and twins, 12. I have been married to a fabulous woman for 28 years.
