Already Loved

What a night! I've never seen such activity at church. All the phone lines lit up. People walking in circles to pick up prayer request after prayer request. Listening to bits and pieces of conversations: "Are you regularly attending church anywhere?" ""Our church is having a special event for those who are unchurched?" "Is there anything we can pray about for you?" There were a few other conversations about who was authorized to put numbers on the tally board. I was NOT one of them. I think they must have thought I would ministerially exaggerate the numbers, but I don't think I have to. Here's the breakdown of what we did last night:

• 88 completed calls
• 62 households attended church.
• 26 households did not attend church.
• 1 household said "Yes" to our invitation.
• 7 households said "Interested, send me more information."
• 55 prayer requests were taken and prayed for immediately. Sadly, one of the requests was for a grandmother who needed to tell her grandson that his half brother had died. Another was for a family whose son was killed while playing with a gun. A third was to pray for a father in ICU with brain damage.

And that was just one night. Pray for these families with us. Pray for our workers who are feeling anything but overwhelmed because God gave supernatural grace to deal with everything that happened. God is good!