Are you ready to go to Montego Bay. That is what it is called in Jamaica by the people you will meet when we arrive.
Are you up to date with the deadlines?
Check and see.
Also A spot opened up , one of our members has had to stepo back we need to replace this spot.
If you have Bruster coupon please sell them before they melt. Ice Cream season will slow down soon.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Ocho Rios Jamaica
The people we will serve in Jamaica live near the town of Ocho Rios which in Spanish means eight rivers. There are only actually four rivers in this area and come together to create a place called Dunn's River Falls.
On your day as a tourist, the reward for your hard work we will to climb Dunn's River Falls. This a lot of fun and can be done as a team. I truly want us to do this as a team and you will see what a great time it will be.
Although I have never done it in December, I am sure the water will be just as cold as it is in July. I am not sure if the climate will be as hot , but it is what it is.
Team? Yes we will become a team perhaps before we leave to go to Jamaica. That is always my goal. Would you pray from God to do something special that only He can do.
Oh yeah, I almost for got the Ocho Rios thing...only four rivers then why did they say ocho and not cuartro? Easy the phrase the Spaniards used was "Las Chorreras", for springs or waterfalls but over the years the name disintegrated to ocho rios.
So what is the point? There are not 8 rivers there as the name would imply and the actual name lost integrity and came to mean something else, something untrue. Has Christianity experienced the same thing?
Has the name Christian become something entirely different that what the name meant in the beginning?
I think it has. What about in your life? Are you living up to the name: Christian?
On your day as a tourist, the reward for your hard work we will to climb Dunn's River Falls. This a lot of fun and can be done as a team. I truly want us to do this as a team and you will see what a great time it will be.
Although I have never done it in December, I am sure the water will be just as cold as it is in July. I am not sure if the climate will be as hot , but it is what it is.
Team? Yes we will become a team perhaps before we leave to go to Jamaica. That is always my goal. Would you pray from God to do something special that only He can do.
Oh yeah, I almost for got the Ocho Rios thing...only four rivers then why did they say ocho and not cuartro? Easy the phrase the Spaniards used was "Las Chorreras", for springs or waterfalls but over the years the name disintegrated to ocho rios.
So what is the point? There are not 8 rivers there as the name would imply and the actual name lost integrity and came to mean something else, something untrue. Has Christianity experienced the same thing?
Has the name Christian become something entirely different that what the name meant in the beginning?
I think it has. What about in your life? Are you living up to the name: Christian?
Monday, June 1, 2009
Listen up wonderful people. We have one spot left, who will join our team. Do you know someone on the fringe who might consider or even better ask some one to go on standby.
Here is the deal if we raise $2, 000 over and above the cost of the trip, we get to build a house for a homeless Jamaican family. Who can you ask to donate $5? There are 24 team members right now. If every team members asked someone not on the team to be a part of our team by making a $5 dollar donation that is a $120. What we all asked 10 people to give $5? We would have $1200.
What if we don't raise the money? Easy...we will work on an a community center being built for ministry in the community. We could possibly do both if we raise the money.
Whatever we raise can be put toward a home regardless. The next team will be able to supplement what we raise.
I believe we can raise the money for Carver Aprk work and 2 homes in Jamaica with a goal of $5,000. by November an easy goal. Ask people to give $5 to your cost and $5 to the project. We can do it.
Ask God, trust God and go to work as if the provision was already there because it is there.
In Christ---No worries Mon!
Andy Goode
Here is the deal if we raise $2, 000 over and above the cost of the trip, we get to build a house for a homeless Jamaican family. Who can you ask to donate $5? There are 24 team members right now. If every team members asked someone not on the team to be a part of our team by making a $5 dollar donation that is a $120. What we all asked 10 people to give $5? We would have $1200.
What if we don't raise the money? Easy...we will work on an a community center being built for ministry in the community. We could possibly do both if we raise the money.
Whatever we raise can be put toward a home regardless. The next team will be able to supplement what we raise.
I believe we can raise the money for Carver Aprk work and 2 homes in Jamaica with a goal of $5,000. by November an easy goal. Ask people to give $5 to your cost and $5 to the project. We can do it.
Ask God, trust God and go to work as if the provision was already there because it is there.
In Christ---No worries Mon!
Andy Goode
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Dealines Are Drawing Near
Reminder: May 30th is the last day to cancel without losing your deposit. For a short time after May 30th you will be able to sell your spot to another, this window will close in August.
We still have room for one or two more team members and I would like to have someone on stand-by in case someone has to drop out. Please contact me and those of you who have found your way here to the blog please help the others find the blog.
My plan is to have you begin a time of preparedness right now for this adventure.
(1) I encourage you to develop a prayer time related to this mission team and make that appointment every day. You may want to keep a list of how you prayed each day and see how God answers.
(2) Fast one day per month beginning in June through September. [most Jamaicans rarely have a hot meal] *If medical conditions preclude choose another type of sacrifice(i.e. TV, etc.)
(3) In October fast one day per week. [ You give away to Goodwill or sell at yard sales, more than most Jamaicans own in a lifetime]
(4) In October you will be given a 40 day devotional to go through the month of November culminating in the week of December 5th-11th.
(5) The spiritual aspect during that week will be huge if these steps are followed, and of course do as you are led by God if you want to go beyond these minimum steps.
(6) Focus your words, thoughts and deeds on the sole concept of obedience to Christ in all things.
(7) Begin praying for your teammates today and incorporate them into your daily prayer time for the things related to this upcoming week in your life.
Now, Payment deadlines:
(1) Your next payment of $150 is due by July 15th this means we need a minimum total of $250 from you by this date, if you are already paid above this point then do not be concerned with this deadline.
(2) We need a payment of $600 by Oct. 1st this means you will have paid a minimum of $850 by Oct. 1st.
(3) Another payment of $300 is due by November 1st. Your cumulative total in minimum payments at that time will be $1150
(4) Balance due by November 30th cumulative total $1385 (late registration add $100)
We still have room for one or two more team members and I would like to have someone on stand-by in case someone has to drop out. Please contact me and those of you who have found your way here to the blog please help the others find the blog.
My plan is to have you begin a time of preparedness right now for this adventure.
(1) I encourage you to develop a prayer time related to this mission team and make that appointment every day. You may want to keep a list of how you prayed each day and see how God answers.
(2) Fast one day per month beginning in June through September. [most Jamaicans rarely have a hot meal] *If medical conditions preclude choose another type of sacrifice(i.e. TV, etc.)
(3) In October fast one day per week. [ You give away to Goodwill or sell at yard sales, more than most Jamaicans own in a lifetime]
(4) In October you will be given a 40 day devotional to go through the month of November culminating in the week of December 5th-11th.
(5) The spiritual aspect during that week will be huge if these steps are followed, and of course do as you are led by God if you want to go beyond these minimum steps.
(6) Focus your words, thoughts and deeds on the sole concept of obedience to Christ in all things.
(7) Begin praying for your teammates today and incorporate them into your daily prayer time for the things related to this upcoming week in your life.
Now, Payment deadlines:
(1) Your next payment of $150 is due by July 15th this means we need a minimum total of $250 from you by this date, if you are already paid above this point then do not be concerned with this deadline.
(2) We need a payment of $600 by Oct. 1st this means you will have paid a minimum of $850 by Oct. 1st.
(3) Another payment of $300 is due by November 1st. Your cumulative total in minimum payments at that time will be $1150
(4) Balance due by November 30th cumulative total $1385 (late registration add $100)
Friday, May 15, 2009
Mission Jamaica 2009 Dec. 5-11th
Follow this blog for details on the up coming Mission team to Jamaica from Central Baptist Church.
All Information and updates will be done via this blog.
Currently we have 20 people committed to go on this team and we are expanding the team.
Therefore I must now impose a dead line.
Our deadline will now be May 30th to pay the $100 Deposit.
All Information and updates will be done via this blog.
Currently we have 20 people committed to go on this team and we are expanding the team.
Therefore I must now impose a dead line.
Our deadline will now be May 30th to pay the $100 Deposit.
Monday, April 20, 2009
I Thank You For Your Support
Wow….what a Sunday! Central I commend you for receiving my friend Coach Rock Knapp and I commend you for treating him so well. Thanks for the response to the Curing Kids Cancer cause and I really appreciate that so many of you will be coming along to help at Rock’s Run. There are many things that I am grateful for that occurred this past Sunday.
I appreciate the men who showed up to pray before the service and I want to extend the invitation to any who want to join us. We will pray at 9:30 each Sunday morning in the sanctuary. No one is asked to pray aloud but to pray for our services, against distractions and for God’s power.
Speaking of prayer, we are over due to get the prayer ministry of this church going. We should have people praying during the services on a rotation basis. We should be building toward a strong intercessory prayer ministry. We will never have the power until we first become people of prayer.
Also, I want to thank so many of you for serving and being so gracious when a service goes longer than usual. My first thanks is to the people who serve in the nursery and in children’s church. I am thanking you each and every one because I am grateful.
I wish that we could all be grateful. I hope we can come to a place where we: “can scarce take it in…” how beautiful God’s love is to those who have seen His love through the eyes of a repentant sinner saved by grace.
What do I have to say for why a service goes longer than some would like? Well I guess we could have told the two adults and one child that were coming for baptism that they were not important and that would have saved 15 minutes. We could have cut out some songs that praised God and told God we didn’t have time to praise Him. That would have saved another 15 minutes depending on how many songs we cut.
Also, I could have spoken less than what God had given to me to speak and thereby told God we didn’t have time to listen to His message, for a 10 minute gain. I believe the response to the message validates that it came from Him. We could have told those who came forward in response to the message that they do not matter and their desire to honor God with their life is not important.
We could have told Coach Rock that curing kid’s cancer is not a worthy cause and we are not willing to help and saved 15 minutes. That would be telling my friend Coach Rock who may not be healed of two terminal cancers that we could care less and that his testimony of what God has shown him didn’t matter to us and we would also be saying to God once again that we only care about ourselves.
If we add up all the saved time that would be 15+15+10+15, we could have had a service 55 minutes shorter than we had yesterday. This means if we started at our normal time of 10:55 we would have finished at 11:35.
That would be a service only 40 minutes long and a church with no baptisms, little praise, a short message and no regard for God or anyone other than one’s own self. NO THANKS! I would rather God correct me for keeping people too long than have God rebuke me for shallow, self-centered and unwilling to worship Him.
To be fair, Justin, Daniel and I will always seek not to keep you any longer than God intends. However, when honoring God requires more, I will not be the one dismissing people before it is time. Allow me to say this because I have preached in many churches where they wanted 3 points and a poem in a 15 minute message after they sang one hymn standing and two sitting down, read off the birthday list, the gossip column and wasted as much time as possible to edge the preacher out from being able to deliver the Word of God; those churches are either dead or dying and we are neither one. We are a resurrected church serving the Resurrected Savior Jesus Christ.
I will gladly receive anyone wanting to complain about the length of yesterday’s service and I will not be offended. After you are finished with your compliant, I hope you will not be offended if I share with you the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how you can be saved and begin an abundant life walking in victory over sin and sorrow. Then you can lay down your idols and your bitterness. : )
I love you each and every one; I love Jesus more!
Andy Goode
Acts 20:24
I appreciate the men who showed up to pray before the service and I want to extend the invitation to any who want to join us. We will pray at 9:30 each Sunday morning in the sanctuary. No one is asked to pray aloud but to pray for our services, against distractions and for God’s power.
Speaking of prayer, we are over due to get the prayer ministry of this church going. We should have people praying during the services on a rotation basis. We should be building toward a strong intercessory prayer ministry. We will never have the power until we first become people of prayer.
Also, I want to thank so many of you for serving and being so gracious when a service goes longer than usual. My first thanks is to the people who serve in the nursery and in children’s church. I am thanking you each and every one because I am grateful.
I wish that we could all be grateful. I hope we can come to a place where we: “can scarce take it in…” how beautiful God’s love is to those who have seen His love through the eyes of a repentant sinner saved by grace.
What do I have to say for why a service goes longer than some would like? Well I guess we could have told the two adults and one child that were coming for baptism that they were not important and that would have saved 15 minutes. We could have cut out some songs that praised God and told God we didn’t have time to praise Him. That would have saved another 15 minutes depending on how many songs we cut.
Also, I could have spoken less than what God had given to me to speak and thereby told God we didn’t have time to listen to His message, for a 10 minute gain. I believe the response to the message validates that it came from Him. We could have told those who came forward in response to the message that they do not matter and their desire to honor God with their life is not important.
We could have told Coach Rock that curing kid’s cancer is not a worthy cause and we are not willing to help and saved 15 minutes. That would be telling my friend Coach Rock who may not be healed of two terminal cancers that we could care less and that his testimony of what God has shown him didn’t matter to us and we would also be saying to God once again that we only care about ourselves.
If we add up all the saved time that would be 15+15+10+15, we could have had a service 55 minutes shorter than we had yesterday. This means if we started at our normal time of 10:55 we would have finished at 11:35.
That would be a service only 40 minutes long and a church with no baptisms, little praise, a short message and no regard for God or anyone other than one’s own self. NO THANKS! I would rather God correct me for keeping people too long than have God rebuke me for shallow, self-centered and unwilling to worship Him.
To be fair, Justin, Daniel and I will always seek not to keep you any longer than God intends. However, when honoring God requires more, I will not be the one dismissing people before it is time. Allow me to say this because I have preached in many churches where they wanted 3 points and a poem in a 15 minute message after they sang one hymn standing and two sitting down, read off the birthday list, the gossip column and wasted as much time as possible to edge the preacher out from being able to deliver the Word of God; those churches are either dead or dying and we are neither one. We are a resurrected church serving the Resurrected Savior Jesus Christ.
I will gladly receive anyone wanting to complain about the length of yesterday’s service and I will not be offended. After you are finished with your compliant, I hope you will not be offended if I share with you the Gospel of Jesus Christ and how you can be saved and begin an abundant life walking in victory over sin and sorrow. Then you can lay down your idols and your bitterness. : )
I love you each and every one; I love Jesus more!
Andy Goode
Acts 20:24
Friday, February 13, 2009
Why Missions?
Understand that busyness is not a spiritual gift, yet I have been so busy with ministry that I have not been able to write the daily devotion for the mission team. So once again Iam borrowing today from Spurgeon's "Faith's Check Book. I trust God will use it to prepare you for the journey.
Why Missions? we have to step away from the daily and ordinary things of life and get focused on what really matters. It helps to go and worship in an unfamiliar place as a servant of Christ in a foreign land.
Feb. 13 BLESSED IN THE FIELD
"Blessed shalt thou be in the field" Deut. 28:3
So was Isaac blessed when he walked therein at eventide to meditate. How often has the Lord met us when we have been alone! The hedges and the trees can bear witness to our joy. We look for such blessedness again.
So was Boaz blessed when he reaped his harvest, and his workmen met him with benedictions. May the Lord prosper all who drive the plough! Every farmer may urge this promise with God, if indeed he obeys the voice of the Lord God.
We go to the field to labor as father Adam did; and since the curse fell on the soil through the sin of Adam the first, it is a great comfort to find a blessing through Adam the second.
We go to the field for exercise, and we are happy in the belief that the Lord will bless that exercise, and give us health, which we will use to His glory.
We go to the field to study nature, and there is nothing in a knowledge of the visible creation which may not be sanctified to the highest uses by the divine benediction.
We have at last to go to the field to bury our dead; yea, others will in their turn take us to God's acre in the field: but we are blessed, whether weeping at the tomb, or sleeping in it.
— Faith's Checkbook
Why Missions? we have to step away from the daily and ordinary things of life and get focused on what really matters. It helps to go and worship in an unfamiliar place as a servant of Christ in a foreign land.
Feb. 13 BLESSED IN THE FIELD
"Blessed shalt thou be in the field" Deut. 28:3
So was Isaac blessed when he walked therein at eventide to meditate. How often has the Lord met us when we have been alone! The hedges and the trees can bear witness to our joy. We look for such blessedness again.
So was Boaz blessed when he reaped his harvest, and his workmen met him with benedictions. May the Lord prosper all who drive the plough! Every farmer may urge this promise with God, if indeed he obeys the voice of the Lord God.
We go to the field to labor as father Adam did; and since the curse fell on the soil through the sin of Adam the first, it is a great comfort to find a blessing through Adam the second.
We go to the field for exercise, and we are happy in the belief that the Lord will bless that exercise, and give us health, which we will use to His glory.
We go to the field to study nature, and there is nothing in a knowledge of the visible creation which may not be sanctified to the highest uses by the divine benediction.
We have at last to go to the field to bury our dead; yea, others will in their turn take us to God's acre in the field: but we are blessed, whether weeping at the tomb, or sleeping in it.
— Faith's Checkbook
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