| A letter for our amazing volunteers! You are the sermon illustration!
Hello NewSpring, Greetings to my Christian Brothers and Sisters at NewSpring Church. I am e-mailing you for a couple of reasons. First, I wanted to let you know that I am absolutely amazed at what God is doing through you NewSpring in South Carolina and really around the world. I am a Pastor from North Florida and have attended now two of your services. One at your Anderson Campus at Christmas time in 2008 and the most recent was at the Bi-Lo Center for your 10th Anniversary Celebration. Secondly, as all of you know it was a cold and rainy day that Sunday and my wife and I and our three girls along with my bro and Sis-n-law (the two by the way are NewSpring faithful attenders at Anderson) were one of the first ones in line that day probably only about 40 or so feet from the doors, which meant we were in line for a long time. After a little while a greeter named Michael Pruitt came by and greeted us and chatted with us for a while and seen that my 14 year old daughter Kayla was cold so he took off his own jacket and gave it to her to wear as she stood in line. He would come by and check on us about every 20 minutes or so and even took her with him and his wife for a while to meet and greet others. I never told him that I was a Pastor but I was so impressed, that I used him as an illustration on Wednesday while teaching on our callings. Michael was positive, energetic, truly wanted to be there and loves Jesus, NewSpring, and people. Here’s a man that exemplifies what it means to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Someone please let him know how much my family appreciates what he does. You guys absolutely rock and keep up the good work for the kingdom of God! What a tremendous amount of people that came forward to receive Christ…with that said, “The Best Is Yet to Come!” God Bless, Troy |
Give up your jacket! February 3, 2010
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That is so awesome!
I’ve been following your blog for a while–great stuff. I’m now working leading & coordinating volunteers for a 2 yr old church plant(right now in kids min–working part-time) & re-reading some of your posts. We’ve now got about 80 kids ministry volunteers and about 200 total. Thanks for all the good input shared!!
You are so welcome! Thank you for saying hello. It looks like God is rocking your world. How exciting. Can you believe that we get to do what we do? Wow.
You are loved by many and your thoughts are very valuable to same. Keep it coming for we are doing life and church together for the glory of the kingdom of God.