Just checking in....

We've not communicated a lot lately, just want to make sure we keep up on our prayers and prayers. We have so many prayer needs in our church right now,as well as answered prayers. I'll say it, we've had MIRACLES happen at Valley Center Christian Church.  I'm not going to write names in fear I leave someone out, God knows where to apply your prayers, just pray. We've got a Ladies trip coming up on the 11th of November. I hope that this connects some new friendships and reconnects some old ones. Please consider joining in the adventure, whether you like to shop or not, we all need a little relaxing time and to love on one another. May you be filled with energy today and your day be blessed.

2011 Prairie View Camp Ladies Retreat

2011 PVCC Women’s Retreat Sept 30-Oct 2
This year’s Women’s retreat at Prairie View Christian Camp will be held September 30 thru October 2. Haverhill Christian Church is hosting the retreat this year. Fun! Cost is $65 for the entire weekend but that can be broken down if you can only go for part of the time.
Come join us for a fun-filled weekend as we learn how to love well. Through video we will hear from best-selling author and teacher Beth Moore, enjoy fun and fellowship with other women, laugh our heads off, shed a few tears, eat, stay up late, make new friends, and enjoy old friends. It’s a weekend you don’t want to miss!
Questions?? Registration forms are on the Ladies Ministry table in the foyer. You might also get to visit with Richard and Mommy to be Stephanie!!! Contact Martha Ferguson

I am reading Isaiah 6 today, picturing the Lord sitting on the throne and the train of his robe filling temple, and the angels with 6 wings flying and calling to each other Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Almighty. What an exciting sight that would have been to see! Angels flying with their eyes covered, now that's trusting in the Lord! Reminded me of when my brother-in-law was learning to fly a plane and rather than paying the cost of a hood to direct your eyes and forcing you into trusting only the controls, he used a banana box! lol

Isaiah 6

Isaiah’s Commission

 ¹ In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. ² Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. ³ And they were calling to one another:    “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
   the whole earth is full of his glory.”
 ⁴ At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
 ⁵ “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”
 ⁶ Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. ⁷ With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.”
 ⁸ Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
   And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
 ⁹ He said, “Go and tell this people:
   “‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding;
   be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
¹⁰ Make the heart of this people calloused;
   make their ears dull
   and close their eyes.^[a]
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
   hear with their ears,
   understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
 ¹¹ Then I said, “For how long, Lord?”
   And he answered:
   “Until the cities lie ruined
   and without inhabitant,
until the houses are left deserted
   and the fields ruined and ravaged,
¹² until the LORD has sent everyone far away
   and the land is utterly forsaken.
¹³ And though a tenth remains in the land,
   it will again be laid waste.
But as the terebinth and oak
   leave stumps when they are cut down,
   so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.”

Prayers Please

Please add Mary-Beth Smith to your prayers, she was rushed to the hospital and has had emergency surgery, sorry, don't know any other details.

A Request for a Day of Prayer and Fasting from Dr. Chuck Terrill

Valley Center Christian Church

P.O. Box 158

1801 E 5^th Street

Valley Center, KS  67147

Phone  316-755-1233  316-755-1233

For Immediate Release

April 30, Day of Fasting and Prayer

Valley Center, KS-(Feb.8, 2011)  Valley Center Christian Church will observe a corporate day of fasting and prayer for our Community and our Nation on Saturday, April 30.  The church will meet for a time of prayer at 1801 E 5^th St, Valley Center, KS at 7 p.m.  The public is invited to attend as we plead with God for the renewal of our nation.  We encourage local Christians to join us, and pray that Christian churches across the nation will join us in prayer in their own places of worship. 

Abraham Lincoln wrote an address to the nation during the Civil War that was at least as important as the Gettysburg Address. The little known document was his proclamation for a national fast-day, by which he did designate and set apart Thursday the 30th day of April 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer.  As you read the following proclamation, may the Lord reveal to your heart how much more, we as a nation, need to humble ourselves before God.  Abraham Lincoln wrote:

“It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

“The awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people.

“Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

“It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”^[1]

For more information: Contact Dr. Chuck Terrill,  316-706-9661  316-706-9661

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^[1]Tan, Paul Lee: Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations : A Treasury of Illustrations, Anecdotes, Facts and Quotations for Pastors, Teachers and Christian Workers. Garland TX : Bible Communications, 1996, c1979

Prayer request from a Friend

I just want to reach out to everyone to start a prayer chain to lift my mom up in prayer. She has had a number of health issues, and God has been so wonderful in answering those prayers,but now the veins in her legs and nerves are so painful that she is just in excruciating pain and nothing can be done. I am seeking other opinions, but also prayer because this woman may be 87, but she is active and she has goals and plans and more energy than I had at 40! So many have prayed for her and God is faithful, but I think we are looking for a mighty miracle now. Thank you so much! Aloha ke Akua, Nancy

Update on Scott after his boating accident

First of all, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!  God is good and Scott is doing amazingly well.  Of course, God would be good even if Scott wasn't doing amazingly well, but it's a lot easier to say since he is!

This morning we found out more details.  After their boat sank on the lake (the motor died and two BIG swells knocked the boat over) both Scott and his friend Time tried to swim out.  Scott hadn't brought his new, wonderfully buoyant life jacket since there was an old one already in the boat, so, with all the fishing gear Scott had on, the jacket couldn't hold him up and he kept sinking and swallowing water.  He told his friend to go ahead and get help.  Praise God, Scott found a log to hold onto.  It turns out Scott was in the water for two hours (not one as we originally thought) and when the paramedics rescued him, only his face was out of the water.

Tim swam half a mile to shore and then, when he first got out of the water, his legs wouldn't hold him, so he started crawling the mile and a half to the ranger station.  Eventually his legs recovered a bit and he was able to walk the rest of the way to the station.  Thank God for Tim and that log Scott held on to!

The ambulance sped Scott to the emergency room. He had hypothermia and they immediately began to warm him up, both inside and out.  Scott was in a lot of pain during the process.  They were very concerned about the water in his lungs, all the nasty lake water he had swallowed, and possible limb and heart damage.  The doctors were amazed at how well his body did.  We know it was God and all the prayers!  In fact, several doctors came to see him just because they had a hard time imagining that he could be in such good shape after his ordeal! Brandie heard several of them talking outside Scott's room and they were saying that upon hearing what Scott had endured, they had prepared for the worst but instead got better than the best! He was in Intensive Care for several hours and then last night about midnight, they decided he was doing so well he could be moved to a regular room!  To their amazement, they found no infection, no heart damage, no limb or digit damage, and this morning, his lungs are almost clear!  In fact, to everyone's great joy, they are getting ready to send him home today!!!!!!  He is very, very, very tired but also very, very, VERY grateful.  He truly thought he was going to die out on the lake.

Thank you, thank you again for all your prayers.