A prayer request.....please pray for a young man named Jeff Boardman here in Albuquerque. He was one of my students who graduated a year ago. I've invited him to come to services.....he's agreed and expresses a genuine interest, but he's surely afraid to come on Sunday morning. As my wife and I prepare to move back to West Virginia early this summer, my window of opportunity is slowly closing. Please pray for Jeff to come to God.
El Lobo - Prayer request noted. My wife and I lived in Albuquerque for several years in mid to late '70s. Our "spiritual boot camp" was there, a dynamic church of mostly young people called 'The Answer' up on 7701 Zuni NE I believe. The last I heard Terry and Angel Matthews were pastoring it. Are you familiar with it at all? Blessings, Sunday Creek
My wife and I came to the Albuquerque area a couple of years ago to help my brother start a new congregation on the north west side of town. The CrossPointe Christian Church is renting the Movies West theater at Paseo Del Norte and Coors for services. I live on the far north west edge of town right on the desert, and am really not familiar with the east side. My brother has about 165 on a Sunday morning and has people who have been trained into the jobs my wife and I were doing, so it's time to go home. It's been a good time and we'll miss the good people we've met here.
I don't know if this little story would help the young gentleman or not:
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."
This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.
If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
I don't know how the seeds I've planted will do, but as a goodbye gift, I gave a bible to Jeff. His email today says he's been reading.
Lobo in W.Va.
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