Mardi Gras is Approaching FAST!

Hi prayer friends,

We are in hot pursuit for men to step up with us to witness for our Lord Jesus Christ at the Mardi Gras.  We need your prayers to the Father for Him to send forth laborers into His vineyard at the Mardi Gras.  We have what we call a “Early Bird Special” discount on the donation.  It is $50.00 cheaper for those who get their donation and registration in by this coming Monday, January 28th.  Having this “Early Bird Special” is a help to the men and it is a huge help to our Administrative Team so we will know, for the most part, those who are coming.  Then we will meet on Tuesday January 29th to select men for the many positions to serve at Mardi Gras.

This Sunday, at Christ Church in Fairview Heights, Illinois, the NGL men will wear our NGL T-shirts over a long sleeve matching color sweater and enlist  all the men we can.  Max Vick, in Tennessee, has been enlisting in a big way.  Peoria had an area wide promo meeting with David Cain from Georgia as their speaker. Nebraska is picking up speed.   Pray for the Lord to touch and anoint men this Sunday at church to enlist others  to come with us to Mardi Gras for our 34th Annual Mardi Gras Adventure.

So I am asking prayer for the Lord to call men forth especially this last Sunday before the Early Bird deadline on Monday and for the Lord to grant wisdom as our Administrative team works this coming Tuesday to pick men to be in key leadership positions.  I want to see EVERY man come with us and learn how to minister and grow closer to the Lord building on each mission trip.

All of us have “fallen” one time or another or both.  Mardi Gras is a place where we see the lowest levels of depravity.  It is sickening to see and it does the same to our Lord.  However, this is what we all look like without the Lord and He is able to touch men’s lives at any depth.  I pray each year the Lord will give us His heart for the people and “awaken” us to our need to get back up from our failures through:

REPENTANCE in our small group meetings.
FORGIVENESS:   Revealing who we need to ask forgiveness for what we have done to others or forgiving what others have done to us.
RESTITUTION:  It isn't enough to say we are sorry.  We must in all ways possible find out how we can regain our relationship with those we have hurt or have hurt us.
MOVE ON:  God is the God of the second chance.  So my hope is that each of us attending Mardi Gras will return with less of ourselves, be ministers of reconciliation after being reconciled to God and move on the journey for our Lord in 2013.

Love ya’s

Fred
II Timothy 2:2  My life’s calling, Mardi Gras, my work place