Mission Crestwood God Sightings: Air Conditioner & Refrigerator

 

Mission Crestwood
God Sightings: Air Conditioner & Refrigerator

They were blessed with a new home, but in the middle of the heat of the summer, the broken air conditioning and refrigerator were becoming an issue. The family of six was making due with coolers and ice, but with 90-plus-degree days, the lack of air conditioning was becoming a problem. So, the mom felt compelled to ask a Mission Crestwood volunteer if they ever get air conditioners or refrigerators. Knowing that this was an unusual request that would be equally unusual to fill, the Mission Crestwood volunteer took the request and promised to hold onto it.

That is when God stepped in to connect the dots. Within a week of the family’s request, a phone call came in to Mission Crestwood, “Do you all take air conditioners?” the voice on the other end inquired. Eagerly, the Mission Crestwood volunteer shared, “Yes, we do!” Connection made. A family needed an air conditioner and God allowed Mission Crestwood to be part of the provision! Our God is so loving that He allows us to join Him in His work!

Then came the call from church. Could Mission Crestwood use an industrial size refrigerator? A local business was closing their doors and needed to unload it. It was only $300. Mission Crestwood could definitely use it to store the food donated to the mission, yet they had no extra money to buy it. But God is the God of details.  He didn't over look this one.  He covered that too!  He sent a donation for $300 to pay for the refrigerator.

The story continues, because the new refrigerator at Mission Crestwood was large enough that room needed to be made for it. The current residential refrigerator would need to be “relocated.” Connecting the dots as only God can do, the residential refrigerator rested in its new home – the family who was living out of coolers with ice.

God is working and moving at Mission Crestwood!

We invite you to personally experience these God sightings and point our community toward Jesus at Mission Crestwood on Monday or Saturday mornings from 10-12 or Thursday evenings from 6-8. Just show up and see what God is doing!

http://missioncrestwood.org/the-closet/

Fingerprints of the Lord

Christine A. McCloy

How to Increase your Harvest

God’s principle of sowing and righteousness
2 Corinthians 9:10

On January 2015, our 14-year-old son simply proclaimed, “I am going to Nicaragua on a mission trip.” The following 5 months provided a journey of faith. God was blessing Aidan’s desire to join our church team on mission in Nicaragua.

There were the jobs providing funds to go to Nicaragua and the support letters arriving almost daily with checks. When all God's funds were counted --Aidan’s fund raising not only funded him, but also rolled over to me and two others who participated on the trip! Just like one corn seed yields multiple corn cobs on the corn stock, God had multiplied Aidan's funds!

Within hours of returning from Nicaragua, Aidan declared he was going on another mission trip the next year, too. Amazingly, within the first week of returning, he already had $400 in his mission fund for the following year! Again, God was increasing the harvest!

All year Aidan saved and worked to go to the next mission trip – this time in Uganda. Even when the cost increased $800, he was not deterred in the least. He knew that he would have the funding if it was God’s will that he was to go.  And, he did.

Faithfully, God provided “seeds to the sower,” allowing Aidan to save money for the mission trip. Again, like the year prior, God “increased the harvest of Aidan’s righteousness,” allowing Aidan to roll over his funding to others attending the trip.

Why does God supply so abundantly for some and not others?

“Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.” (2 Corinthians 9:10)


God is the supplier.
God is the multiplier.
God is the increaser.

He will supply.
He will multiply.
He will increase.

He will multiply your seed for sowing.
He will increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Yet, you need to be sowing.
You need to be righteous.

The sower is doing the work of the Lord.
The sower is planting the seeds given to him.
The sower is busy about the work given to him however big or small it is.
He is sowing.

Are you sowing? Are you busy about the work given to you no matter how big or how small?

You need to be righteous. Righteousness is given to all by the death of Jesus on the cross. To be righteous is to be “right” with God. To be right is to be justified in the sight of God, which is not possible without the covering of Jesus. Alone, none of us is righteous because of our sin. It is only with the covering of the blood from the cross that we can stand in the presence of our Holy and Mighty God without fear.

Are you righteous?

The promise of God is:
If you are sowing for Him and you are right with Him, He will supply for His work, He will multiply the efforts, and He will increase the harvest.

Are you being called to sow?  Begin today with small steps.  You sow.  God will multiply the efforts then you will be blessed.

Claim this promise today.  Start sowing.

Fingerprints of the Lord

Christine A. McCloy

Misison Crestwood - God Sightings: Tan Pants

 

Mission Crestwood
God Sightings: Tan Pants

“She needs tan pants by tomorrow to start her job!” Everyone was scrambling to help. There were no tan pants ANYWHERE in her size in the shopping area of the Clothing Closet at Mission Crestwood. The sorters moved into the stacks and bags in the back area to look. Numerous piles were checked, then rechecked, and then checked again. Still no tan pants in her size. Mission Crestwood volunteers were still not deterred and continued to look through stacks and stacks of clothes anticipating the “tan pants she needed by tomorrow to start her job.”

God’s fingerprints are all over Mission Crestwood, and His movements are evident to the numerous volunteers who donate their time weekly to be on mission to our neighbors. But, there were still no pants.

Then it happened! A pair of tan pants literally dropped off the top shelf into a Mission Crestwood volunteer’s lap! And wouldn’t you know – they were the right size!!! Our God is such a personal provider for His children that it is easy to imagine Him pushing those pants off the shelf for the volunteers to find!

God is working and moving at Mission Crestwood!

We invite you to personally experience these God sightings and point our community toward Jesus at Mission Crestwood on Monday or Saturday mornings from 10-12 or Thursday evenings from 6-8. Just show up and see what God is doing!

http://missioncrestwood.org/the-closet/

Fingerprints of the Lord

Christine A. McCloy