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Signs

Usually I am not quite awake until I get my coffee. But her story grabbed my attention and reminded me again of God’s amazing grace. Her name is Lori and she works in the JRA Café. A year ago her life was totally different. Raised in a mainline denomination, she had only heard about Jesus but had [ READ MORE ]

Wow!

  • September 21st, 2009
  • Posted in Ministry

September has been an amazing month at James River Assembly. As hundreds of people joined in the Daniel Fast, God’s grace and power have been evident in so many ways: In the last 4 Sundays, 129 people have made decisions for Christ. James River Assembly became 1 church with 2 locations! We had an amazing attendance last Sunday: James [ READ MORE ]

Prayer

This week, a portion of the JRA pastoral staff has been on a prayer retreat. Someone has said, “Prayer changes everything!” I know for sure that it changes me. There is something about pulling away for a couple of days from the daily routines of life with just my Bible and a notepad to spend time [ READ MORE ]

Wonderful Day

Sunday was another awesome day at JRA – in fact sometimes it’s hard to wrap your mind around all God is doing. So if you have a minute here is a summary of some of the incredible things that are happening! So far in July we have had 81 people come forward to receive Christ on [ READ MORE ]

Water!

It was 10:45 pm in Springfield, but a half a world away the sun was coming up as the rig in Konyao, Pokot, Kenya hit water! If you were at I Love America, you know that throughout the day our goal was to help Angel Mission raise the funds to drill a well to help [ READ MORE ]

An Amazing ILA Weekend!

What a great day the Lord gave us at ILA! The weather was beautiful: sunny, 82 degrees and a nice breeze. We had a record attendance with over 120,000 people in attendance! Our goal was to share the Gospel and, to that end, we had 121 people come forward and make decisions for Christ! In [ READ MORE ]

History in the Making

The ILA Rally was incredible last night! The music was fantastic, we baptized 20 people, the JRA Choir sang it down with a rendition of “America Song,” and everyone realized we are a part of something supernaturally wonderful that God is doing at James River through I Love America. History anyone? The first I Love America was [ READ MORE ]

Signs

Someone wrote on my Facebook, “I love driving through neighborhoods, down country roads and by businesses seeing all of the ‘I Love America’ signs. It’s so much fun to see where all of our JRA family lives and works.” I agree…it is very cool to see all of the signs. When I read that post, I [ READ MORE ]

20/20

For the spiritual leader, it has to be one of the most chilling passages in all of the Bible. “And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision. At that time, Eli whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down [ READ MORE ]

Ordained

Just got back from the ordination service for one of our staff members. A couple of weeks ago a pastor mentioned he wasn’t planning on being ordained. His reason, “With my license to preach I can do everything an ordained minister can do. I can marry, bury, and pastor a church…plus it doesn’t cost me [ READ MORE ]

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