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The Gospel of Surrender

7/7/2014

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PictureJohn & Carol Christian
What a wonderful way to begin our 2014 visit to India. After a day of rest and restoration on Saturday, we received a call from John Christian inviting us to be at their home, Fresh Winds, by 7:50am Sunday morning so we could travel together to Chennai to worship with the Kontagious Community Church, where John is the pastor. We were also joined by one of the teachers named Grace and her husband Venket and their son Joshua. With John and Carol’s son, Aaron, we had quite a car full and there was much rejoicing and renewing of friendships with several conversations going on at once as we headed to Chennai.

We arrived at the church and rode the lift to the third floor and were greeted warmly by many of our Indian friends at the church. There was not nearly enough time to catch up, but we still have three more Sundays to work on that. We worshiped together with several new and a smattering of old songs to prepare us for John’s powerful message. 


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For Such is the Nature of God

7/9/2012

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Once again God has demonstrated that He is abundantly big enough!

Last Sunday morning, the congregation of the Vineyard Church of Chennai held its first worship service in their bright, airy and much larger facility.

Last year while we were here John Christian (pastor of the Vineyard Church of Chennai and Director of Acts of Mercy)  reminded the members of the church that the lease on their old facility was going to run out and it looked like they would not be able to come to an agreement on a new lease. Sure enough, our first Sunday here John announced on Sunday during worship that this would be the last Sunday at the old facility and that Thursday, all the members should come to the church and help move all the furniture, sound equipment, instruments and anything else to the new location. Everyone was upbeat and ready for the move.



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