Holy Ghost Falls at CCC

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Allan

MonkeyMan, are you referring to Capital Community Church in Fredericton, N.B. by chance?

Yes he is.

Originally Posted by CC1

Yes he is.

I figured as much. I attend the Bible College just down the road.

[South of I 90]

Originally Posted by Monkeyman

Our annual YX (Youth X-Plosion) was explosive this year. The last count was at 27 young people receiving the Holy Ghost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's great MM. Did you guys have a guest speaker or guest musicians?

[Monkeyman]

Originally Posted by CC1

Monkeyface,

That is a great report. I am glad God is moving and changing lives in your church.

Thank a bunch o caffienated one! I will tell you a story soon about one of the guys that received the Holy Ghost.
Still praying for your church youth and family concerning that tragedy...

[Monkeyman]

Originally Posted by South of I 90

That's great MM. Did you guys have a guest speaker or guest musicians?

Yes to speaker, no to musicians.
The speaker was Tim Rutledge of POA and the musicians were Capital Community's music team.

[Monkeyman]

Originally Posted by Allan

I figured as much. I attend the Bible College just down the road.

Well, maybe I saw you there
Pretty awesome services wouldn't you say?

[Monkeyman]

I JUST got an email from a staff member, we have confirmed 28 now!!!!! I'm sure that won't be the last total either!!!

[Monkeyman]

For CC1:
Your church's recent tragedy struck a chord with me and I have been praying for your church. 6 years ago we lost a great Pastor due to a heart attack, he was 47 years old. Now...before he came, we had dwindeled down to 9 regular youth. (Coupled with the fact that we had a church split where we lost over half of our congregation DISCLAIMER--Not throwing stones at anyone, just painting the spiritual state of our church)
Pastor Jack Long created a new hope and stir in our youth. He brought on his son to be the new youth pastor. Together, they decided to start a Youth weekend in February...on the first night HE DIED!
Can you imagine the trauma that our church and youth went through!!! After a bunch of terrible things happening at our church this was the icing on the cake. It did not destroy us although there were times we thought it would.
To make a short story longer...God brought us new leadership and we retained a young Pastor Long as the youth Pastor. God has been good and HE has grown our youth to greater numbers, and more importantly, greater impact. We are actually impacting our area of the globe!!!!
Here is the COOL part...six years to the day he died, this past Friday night, our first night of Youth X-Plosion 07', it was only supposed to be a concert......the first 9 kids to get the Holy Ghost were from our youth group!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AIN"T GOD GOOD?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Y'all ain't hearin' me.....AIN"T GOD GOOD????!!!!!!

During the last night, Pastor Rutledge asked youth groups to bind together at the front and as I watched from the platform a huge circle began to form up front in the middle with one particular youth group...I am bad with numbers but I'm sure there were more than a 100 kids???
Yup. your guessed it, these kids were CCC's...all I could do was weep for joy...

[Monkeyman]

Here is the video from Sunday Morning. Great sermon by Tim Rutledge entitled, "Matters Of the Heart"....enjoy (great for youth pastors to check out)
http://www.capitalcommunity.ca/media.html

[Scott Hutchinson]

This is great.