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Cool Thing At Church Today

Tonight when the lead team met to talk and pray before our evening service (3rd service of the day) the pastor told us something cool.

He asked if we had noticed a man who at the end of one of the morning services had hugged his neck, was crying, and pastor prayed with him.

He said not long ago he was coming out of Starbucks with a friend and met this guy going in with his little girl. Pastor stopped and asked him "is she 4 ?" because he has a daughter that age. The man said yes and pastor complimented him on how pretty his little girl was and went on his way.

It turns out the guy had just been reading the newspaper article about our new church building and I think he recognized pastor's picture so knew who he was. The man thought it was an interesting coincidence but nothing more.

The man is a beer connoisseur and it so happens that our new church building is a 112 year old factory whose only other tenant is a micro brewery in the rear of the building. The man went to visit this brewery and saw the church sign outside the main entrance and then the glass doors and windows into our sanctuary from the main foyer / hallway of the building.

He thought about all of the "coincicidences" that had occurred to do with our church and pastor and purposed to come check out the church. That is what he did today and his world was rocked. Turns out he had gone through recent pain in his life and really needs God.

I love it when these sorts of things happen. I am glad this man was sensitive enough to the "nudge" God gave him to go ahead and check out our church.

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Now he can go get a beer before (and after) church!

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Originally Posted by CC1 (Post 1243193)

Tonight when the lead team met to talk and pray before our evening service (3rd service of the day) the pastor told us something cool.

He asked if we had noticed a man who at the end of one of the morning services had hugged his neck, was crying, and pastor prayed with him.

He said not long ago he was coming out of Starbucks with a friend and met this guy going in with his little girl. Pastor stopped and asked him "is she 4 ?" because he has a daughter that age. The man said yes and pastor complimented him on pretty his little girl was and went on his way.

It turns out the guy had just been reading the newspaper article about our new church building and I think he recognized pastor's picture so knew who he was. The man thought it was an interesting coincidence but nothing more.

The man is a beer connoisseur and it so happens that our new church building is a 112 year old factory whose only other tenant is a micro brewery in the rear of the building. The man went to visit this brewery and saw the church sign outside the main entrance and then the glass doors and windows into our sanctuary from the main foyer / hallway of the building.

He thought about all of the "coincicidences" that had occurred to do with our church and pastor and purposed to come check out the church. That is what he did today and his world was rocked. Turns out he had gone through recent pain in his life and really needs God.

I love it when these sorts of things happen. I am glad this man was sensitive enough to the "nudge" God gave him to go ahead and check out our church.

This is a true move of God! Thank you See See Won for sharing!

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Thanks for sharing! Great story.

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A kind of funny thing that happened today was that the total attendance of all three services was 661. Just 5 shy of 666 and we are going through the book of Revelation and today was chapter 13 which dealt a lot with 666. LOL!!!! I would prefer to get to God's perfect number of 777.