Pray For Your Leaders!

Wow this is going to be an awesome week as we welcome the beginning of the holidays! A busy busy time for some as we prepare for meals and family and travel and work and the list goes on and on! How was your weekend? Mine was busy with helping a good friend of mine move into his new house to setting up for Crossroads Sunday morning to touch football on sunday afternoon to pastoral meeting Sunday afternoon! Let me tell you guys I have seen and been apart of various pastoral staffs before but none with the heart of the ones serving on this one!

Pastor Gene and Pastor Leslie are great servants who have sold there souls to serving Jesus and connecting people to God! And being apart of that atmosphere is something words cant describe! As he gets more focused it seems to be rubbing off on the rest of the staff! The Youth Pastors Ben and Kelly Rice are a great example of this! These two are near and dear to my heart, as I have worked with them in the youth ministry I have seen the transformation in them both, from hey what are we doing to getting a vision and making it there own and running with it! They have turned a ordinary youth service into extrodinary youth ministry! If you havent checked it out, then you might want to get there early if you want a seat! Ben and Kelly are working feverishly to connect young people to God and see there lives changed!

Nic and Janna McElveen are the worship leaders at Crossroads and I just have to say they bring something extra to our worship experience! The more I get to know them the more I have seen they too are working hard to connect people to God! They come from Dothan every Sunday at early morning hours to serve and lead people in worship!

Holly and Matt Mendenhall are the childrens pastors and while Matt is on the other sided of the world, Holly is holding down the fort and bringing life change to all the kids coming in to that cinema 2 we call the Filling Station! I have seen it in my nephew Josh's life the change that is taking place there and they too although apart are giving there lives to connecting people to God! There vision continue's to expand and the childrens ministry is where they are making the difference!

I write about these people because to do this life takes great effort and sacrifice in there lives and if you have been touched by there sacrifices and the sacrifices of others and I havent even talked about, the other side of the staff! I encourage you to pray for these people I have mentioned! I know they covet your prayers and I know that your prayers are effective because I see it every Sunday in the eyes of people that come into that cinema on a sunday morning! In this time of giving thanks and worshipping our God for everything He has done, I encourage you to pray for Pastors Gene and Leslie, Ben and Kelly, and Matt and Holly, and Nic and Janna! Your prayers make the difference in the staff and are so appreciated!

God I take a moment to lift these people up to you, and I thank you for them and what they give to connect people to you! I know that you love and honor them and I pray for there time and energy to be restored to them and that as they continue in there efforts that Jesus would be glorified and honor given to His name! Bless there efforts, take care of there needs God, and may we join them in wanting to connect to you! In Jesus name we pray these things and thank you so much for who you are! Amen!