Worship Warfare Week '09

This year Worship Warfare Week was August 17th to the 22nd. It was a blessed week and I was glad to be a part of it, but it was also a lot of work. Lots of long hours and set up and tear down stuff, but its worth it.

We set up the drums, sound equipment, prayer station, and kids face painting area and choose to worship the Lord, which includes loving people. Each day we go to a different park in the city. Tuesday we were in Manhattan, Wednesday in Brooklyn, and Thursday and Friday we were in Queens.

It's really good to see how worshiping God in a public place changes the atmosphere of a location and opens things up a bit. We also prayed for a lot of people, shared some testimonies, and did some drama. God's love went forth, people found salvation.

The Word

God's been stirring more love for the Word in me. I've been realizing that I need to be in it more. I need to know the Word - understand it, memorize it, also be able to teach and preach it. 2 Timothy 4:2 says "Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage - with great patience and careful instruction."

pics are from Brazil '09 - first is me, a translator, and "Jesus"; second is part of the audience

SLM staff pic

Not the best picture but here's the SLM staff, though some are just here for the summer.

left to right:
back - David Van Fleet, David Elisha Van Fleet, Jeryl Zimmerman, Riley Mullins, Andrea Pool
front - Robin Van Fleet, Jessica Hochreiter, Carol Werronen, Amy Wong, Weslea Wells, Ashley Abraham, Mary Anna Coulter

Riley and Andrea are just here for the summer and David Elisha isn't staff but part of the fam.

Summer outreach continues on

These are a few more team pictures.

Summer is definitely the busy season at Street Life. Teams come from all over the nation and generally stay for about a week. Most are youth ministries from churches but there are adult or college teams occasionally. The churches represented are generally from a variety of denominational backgrounds.

There is a time of worship and teaching in the morning and then we go out to different ministry sites and objectives during the day, some of which I already tried to explain and post pictures of. SLM is based in Queens but we do ministry throughout the city.

We have two more weeks of somewhat normal scheduled weeks followed by, the last week of summer outreach, Worship Warfare Week. More about that later. Thanks for your prayers.