Praying The Weather Man Is Right
 

Today in the Nashville area we have an 80% chance of severe thunderstorms all day long but tomorrow it is showing sunny/partly cloudy and a high of 76 degrees.

Our church and five other churches are doing service work in the community instead of our regular service tomorrow and we really need it to not rain!!!!

Hundreds of people from these churches will be heading out to six different places, mostly schools and a nurshing home, to paint, plant shrubs, wash windows & cars, and a lot of other things these places need done but don't have the money in their budget to do. Most of these schools serve low income students or students in trouble like unwed young mothers or students for whom this school is a last chance as they have been kicked out of others.

The pinrcipals of these schools already are so excited about what we are doing as they feel like they are often times overlooked by the community.

We will descend on these places and work for several hours then all of the churches are meeting at a park for a picnic afterwards.

My job is to somehow drive to all six locations in about a 2 hour timeframe and videotape a few minutes at each of the activity going on. I think my GPS is going to get a workout!

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Well, the bad weather has finally left our area and is probably headed your way. I bet they're right!

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Zac is supposed to leave M'boro and head this way about 7 pm tonight, so I hope it's all over by then!

Well, I think that's awesome what your church(es) is doing!! What a great idea.

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Sentenced to community service, eh? :lol

J/K, that's awesome, CC1. That's what church should be about: serving people. :) (No, not in the Twilight Zone sense. :lol)

Oh, and about that prayer, just a little advice: make sure you ask according to God's will, and it will work, for sure! :D

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I wish MORE churches would do things like this. What a great thing for them to do!

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We may still be under that tornado watch I am not sure but it has been pretty quiet so far. I need to turn on the tv..er.... monitor for any UPC folks reading and see what they are saying.

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It's supposed to be hitting downtown Nashville right about now. 60 mph winds, but it may go north of M'boro. So far Zac is still at home, waiting until it calms down a little before he leaves for Jackson.

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Timmy, your point about prayer is well taken and actually I do try to pray that way. Don't want to box God in!

Tina, I think once or twice a year this is a good thing to do. The idea is to let people know that Christians do more than go to church and talk a good talk. We want to actually be a blessing to the community. Should be interesting!

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We did this the last two years CC1, it is good to get ourselves thinking about helping in our community.

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Just saw on TV that the storm is supposed to hit Murfreesboro at 8:33 pm.

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Well, since it's so late and the storm is moving SO slowly eastward, he's decided to stay there and get up and come in the morning, which I think is a much better choice. I didn't feel good about him driving tonight, but he is 21 and he had to make that call.

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Sherri, you are a good mama to let him make his own decisions now that he is grown.

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Ya mean, praying against God's will is boxing Him in? :blink

:ursofunny

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Nah, I just meant I don't like to "demand" things of God so I always make the caveat "if it is his will" when I pray for something I want or want to happen.

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OK, then. And that will work every time! :D

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I just got in from the community outreach and the weather was great! Blue skies, puffy white clouds and probably around 80 degrees. Thank the Lord!!!!

I don't know how many people participated from the various churches but I am guessing there were at least around 500 people that spread out to each of the five locations we went to.

My job was to attempt to race to all five locations in a two hour period and videotape a few minutes of the work going on at each. I did manage to make it to all five places but got to the last one just as they were praying and laying hands on the school principal, football coach, etc before leaving. I did get to video some of the work they had done.

Afterwards we all met at a nice park in town where a pavallion had been reserved and we all ate hamburgers and hot dogs together. What was cool was that the four or five churches involved included Charismatics and a Bible Church (who are very anti speaking in tongues). Everybody had great fellowship and no theological arguments broke out and no fistfights!

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CC1 Did you hear about the guy that was on the way to sell his cow. His neighbor was in the field and hollered and asked him what he was doing leading the cow down the road, and where was he going.

"Said he was going to sell it!"

The neighbor said, "You really ought to say you're going to sell your cow if the Lord wills!"

The man countered with, "Nah, I'm going to sell my cow. I've got the cow, my friend has the money and I'm taking the cow to him. That's it!"

"You really ought to say if the Lord wills!" the neighbor countered.

In a little while the neighbor looked up and his friend was walking back down the road with his head down, clothes torn and no cow and refused to look his way.

He hollered to him, "Heh what happened? Did you sell your cow?"

"No" he said, "some guy jumped me and beat me up and took my cow!"

"Really! I'm sorry," the neighbor said. "Where are you going now?"

"Home," he said, "if the Lord wills!"

Been Thinkin

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LOL!!!