An Awesome Weekend of Fellowship

Just a quick note about a special blessing for our family, we recently had the opportunity to attend the NW Men’s Conference at Calvary Fellowship in north Seattle. Ryan and I attended along with about 1000 other men from various Calvary Chapel fellowships. It was truly a joy listening to the messages and taking part in the worship and prayer times. I cannot accurately describe the joy it was for me to be there with my oldest son and watch as he was ministered to and as we all joined together as a band of brothers. “Behold the Man” was the theme, obviously referring to Jesus and the focus was squarely upon Him throughout the entirety of the event. I was reunited with many old friends and tried my best to catch everyone up to speed on our missionary progress though, due to a cold, my voice was just about gone. “A great time” just scratches the surface!

http://calvaryfellowship.org/audio/tag/Events|Series/NW%20Mens%20Conference%202012

Not only that but, we then traveled up the interstate to Camano Island to visit our long time friends and supporters at Island Christian Fellowship (ICF). It was nearly ten years ago that ICF teamed with our family to help plant Calvary Chapel Forks and they have been faithfully supporting the church and our family ever since through prayer and various other ways through the years. We are immensely appreciative of them and since it had been almost two years to the day that we had visited and given an update we were super excited to see everyone. Once again the Henning family hosted us and spoiled us rotten. Then we were up early for the two services on Sunday morning. We were so blessed by the many hugs and words of encouragement from so many smiling faces, what a joy!

http://www.islandchristianfellowship.com/

This weekend just solidly reinforced the reality of the blessing of fellowship in the body of Christ. One of our greatest joys is experiencing intimate fellowship with other Believers throughout the world, whether it’s in the US or Australia, in Mexico or Central America. With our friends from S. Korea, Mongolia, Canada, China, New Zealand and the S. Pacific Islands, not to mention Europe and so on, the Bible is proven true again and again (Acts 2: 42; Heb. 10: 23-25) with every new church service, prayer meeting, meal, picnic, footy and soccer game, surf and skate session, Christian fellowship is awesome!