Unearthed has produced an incredibly powerful short film that every Christian man should watch.
Christmas Card Photo Shoot
Get your Christmas cards done early this year and help the Clifton family adopt! Jennifer Clifton will be taking photos on:
Friday, November 11, 2011 from 4-6pm
Saturday, November 12th from 9am-4pm
On Location at:
Pillar Church
17286 Dumfries Rd
Dumfries VA 22026
All you need to do is show up at your scheduled time dressed in your Christmas best. Jennifer will take your family photos, have them printed to the quantity you desire and have them in your hands by thanksgiving.
There is no fee but donations are gladly accepted and
ALL proceeds will go our adoption fund.
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Praetorian Project Film
For the past several months we have been working to develop the Praetorian Project. The project is our effort to plant a new gospel-centered church at every Marine Corps base around the world. I hope you’ll take a moment to watch the film. We are asking 100 churches to join us in this endeavor by:
- Pray corporately for the gospel to spread among Marines and for faithful churches to be established near USMC bases worldwide.
- Show the film. We have produced a short film about the project that we hope you will consider showing in an upcoming worship service.
- Give to the project. We are in search of 100 partnering churches willing to give $1775 each. With this we would be able to complete phase one of the project- establishing four new churches in the areas of the world most populated by Marines.
- Invite a planter to speak at your church. Several of the men that are preparing to plant Pillar Churches near USMC installations are available to visit your church. If you invite them they will share about the need for new churches near USMC bases, explain their motivation to do so, and share the way God uniquely called them to serve.
- Copy what we are doing. There are groups of people all around you in need of new churches and a faithful gospel witness. Your church can identify one of those groups and begin working to reach them.
CD Release Concert
AnnieBrogan.com
My good friend Annie Brogan is blogging the dramatic story of her daughter, Gracie’s struggle through heart surgery and her families pursuit of Jesus in the very difficult circumstances of life. I made a few blog buttons for her to promote the blog.
Iceland Project Prayer Card Samples
Our good friends Bill and Cindy Jessup are getting ready to move to Reykjavik to serve continue the Iceland Project. We’re trying to decide on a new prayer card design… Let us know what you think.
Two New Cliftons
We need HELP from our friends. Throughout the fall our family is saving, scrimping and begging for the money we will need to adopt two children from HAITI. We need to come up with 28K to complete the adoption. We have set up very informative website that we hope you will check out at www.twonewcliftons.com.
Pictures from Haiti
Haiti Trip
Jennifer and I are in Haiti now exploring the possibility of adopting two children from here. A few months ago we met a woman, we’ll leave her nameless, who decided to move to Haiti 15 years ago when her husband passed away. Having never even visited Haiti, She left her comfortable life to spend her retirment serving the orphaned children of this tiny island nation. Now, She is in her mid 70′s and is perhaps one of the most inspirational figures I have ever met. This woman supports herself, 14 children and three staff, on her own retirement and social security benefits.
We’ve only been here for two days and in that time she has entertained us with amazing stories of rescuing babies out of poverty, malnutritian and grave danger in order to bring them into her home, nurse them to health and find a loving Christian home for them. She told us one story of rescuing a baby that had been abandoned in a corn field and claimed by a vodoo woman who planned to sacrifice the child. She wasn’t having that so she bought the child from the vodoo woman for $20. While other women her age are wasting their retirement on soap opras and bingo, She is literally saving lives every day.
There are two children here that Jennifer and I pray will someday live in our home. Five year old girl “Bebe or Baby” is a tiny figure who has a personality as much like our Ruthe as any little girl I have ever met. She is rarely without a smile. We’re trying not to show favoritism to her but ever time we look her way we find her staring at us with a huge grin. The boy, “Jean pronounced John” is a tank of a boy who we are told is only two years old (although he could easily pass for four). Both kids were attracted to us right away, and us to them.
Before we came the director of the ministry told us these two children would fit into our family nicely… of course we were skeptical, how could she possibly know that? But as much as two days can tell she hit a bulls eye.
Since our arrival we have spent very little time outside the walls of the childrens home. The area is unsafe and we don’t have any transportation so we have spent two solid days getting to know these children. Several of them are “spoken for” but others are still looking for homes. Tomorrow we go to church, we are told it will last for four hours.
Speaking with Conviction
HT: Joshua Harris
