My Christmas Wish List

This is going to be simple and brief.
Simple because I want you to remember them.
Brief because I want you to pray for them and God is not impressed or moved by long-winded prayers.

God does seem moved by heart-felt, Spirit-led, other-centered and persistent prayer (I'm thinking mostly of Luke 11:1-13).

So without further ado, here is my Christmas wish list (a.k.a prayer requests) for Connections Community Church in 2008. Let us commit to pray and work together so that we might see:

• Filling 350 seats (the largest theatre) in worship by summer 2008.
• A sustainable rotation of 100 people in volunteer teams- Connections Groups, FAST, FIT, Family, Worship and Media.
  
• The official launch of our Connections Groups in Fall 2008 with 200 active participants.
• Expanding to 2 worship services by Christmas 2008 and seeing more than 500 attend our worship services.
• 52 new commitments to Jesus Christ as savior and Lord- one for every week of the year.

Five requests, one for each finger (except for my father-in-law who gave two of his fingers to the farm).
Remember them, pray for them, work to make them reality.
I think they are appropriately audacious and attainable.

"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever, Amen!" Ephesians 3:20-21