an excerpt from Greg’s book “Diary of a Witness” Soon after I was filled with the Holy Spirit, the Lord opened the door for me to go to work for a cement company. Although it was very physically demanding work to begin with, the pay was good and it was close to home. My first duty there was to stand at the bottom of a conveyer belt and catch 94 pound cement sacks as they came down the conveyer slide and stack them on a wood pallet.

THE LIGHT OF THE KING’S FACE  Personal transformation for the regeneration of communities and cities  By Darren Stott We survived the Winter and the Spring has come. The blossoming plum trees at the church are glowing bright pink, the grass is growing and thickening, and the choir of frogs have reassembled in the pond just behind our house. The change of seasons has brought about a significant increase of rain, and not just any kind of rain, spring rain.

By Greg Daley Song 2:11-13 11 For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone. 12 The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing has come, And the voice of the turtledove Is heard in our land. 13 The fig tree puts forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grapes Give a good smell.

I hope you enjoyed the Open Wide conference with Suzy and Kamran Yaraei and Bonnie and Bob Jones. I know I sure did. My CPU is working overtime trying to process everything that was said and done.

  LOVE IS A VERB Paul Hebron   Action Hero Ever hear of an action hero who does nothing? They wouldn't be an action hero at all unless their heroic words were backed by heroic deeds. If the hero only spoke of heroic deeds and talked of being a hero, eventually he would be identified as all-talk and no action.

By Greg Daley Question: "What does it mean that God is love?" Answer: First we will look at how God's Word, the Bible, describes "love," and then we will see a few ways that it applies to God and to us, as his sons & daughters I Corinthians 13 Love Suffers Long – having patience with imperfect people. Love is Kind – active in doing good. Love does not Envy – since it is not possessive and noncompetitive, it actually wants other people to get ahead.