Friends,

This is the follow up communiqué that I promised on Monday. That email was an update of the fire alarm incident of January 10, the spiritual warfare that I believe we are encountering in our desire to be all that God wants us to be, and some immediate steps of response. I asked you to join me in four specific steps.

1. If you missed the service this weekend then please go to our website and view it there. Have your done that? The link has been up and running since Monday evening.

2. Please make every effort to attend this week and every weekend of the entire Exponential series. I anticipate that corporately and personally Satan will seek to slow down our response to God’s promptings. You might experience events or issues that would lead you not to attend. Don’t give in!

3. Pray. Ask God to speak to you personally and to us as a church. And more importantly that we would hear and obey His voice.

4. Stay tuned for this communiqué as the leadership of PAC was seeking God as to next steps.

It is this fourth point that I want to speak to today. We “lost” one service on Sunday. Why should we accept that? This is too important to simply respond with a “whatever” mentality. Let’s make that service up and even go beyond the original plan. Here is what we will do.

On Friday, February 5, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m., we will have a worship and prayer service. The timing of this service is intentional. We will have concluded the overseas missions part of the Exponential series on week four, including the collection of the 2010 Faith Promise pledge cards for our Great Commission Fund. Week five will be a vision message on where we expect God to take us, exponentially, in 2010. Let’s prepare ourselves for that message. Let’s come out together on Friday evening with one intention – let’s get right before our God.

If you are hurting or seeking or need healing; come. If you are in leadership or wanting to know the next step you should take; come. If you want more of God or are in the midst of a critical decision or need a turn around in your life; come. This will be a night of worship and prayer, responding to God and His Spirit, standing in the gap in prayer for each other and our missionaries. So what do you do now?

Put Friday, February 5, from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. on your calendar.
Men, take the lead and make sure you bring your family out that night.
Community Group leaders – if you meet that weekend then cancel your regular meeting and join the rest of the church here.
Come expectantly to meet God and to be used by God.

Since we talked on Monday, we have all been alerted to the horrible tragedy in Haiti. That needs to be part of our response as well. The Christian and Missionary Alliance has already taken action by sending supplies, including clean water, emergency shelter, medical aid, and other necessities through our relief arm, CAMA (Compassion And Mercy Associates) Services. Through your current giving to the Great Commission Fund, we are able to send $5000 to CAMA immediately to help finance these supplies. That is money that you gave through your Faith Promise pledge of 2009. As you continue to give to the Great Commission Fund, and as you pray about your 2010 pledge to that fund, it enables us to be able to respond as quickly as we did in this instance. Haiti will continue to have tremendous needs in the months ahead. We are committed to sending an additional $5000 as your gifts come in and we are looking into the possibility of sending team(s) when it seems feasible to do so.

Psalm 67 begins this way.

May God be gracious to us and bless us
and make his face shine upon us,
that your ways may be known on earth,
your salvation among all nations.

May the peoples praise you, O God;
may all the peoples praise you.

Amen. This is big. And the last response we should have is “whatever.”

Seeking the Lord together with you,

Boyd A. Hannold
Senior Pastor
Princeton Alliance Church