I am feeling great about this years ministry.  I thank God for His grace and favor.  God has been blessing us in so many different ways.  I am so thankful for the Staff at GCC.  I am so thankful for those who serve at GCC.  I am so thankful for those who come to GCC.  Yes, you can tell I am thankful.  I thank God for His Faithfulness.

The last two weekends have been a great blessing to me.  Dr. Steve came to the Mainline Retreat and God used him to minister to us.  Then  this weekend Pastor Sam Lee came by for Passion and it as a powerful time of prayer.  Of course I was blessed by how God used them to speak the Word of God into our church.  But even more I am so thankful my relationship with them. They are two men that have deeply influenced and encouraged me as a friend.  They have been true brothers for Christ in my life.  I thank God for such partnership in the gospel ministry.  It gets lonely doing ministry and I thank God for GCC and for some great godly friends.  I pray God will bless you with a church you love and friends that will encourage to keep loving Jesus.

Philippians 1:6

⁶being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Here are some pictures from the Mainline/Unleased Retreat....

November 5-7 at 7:30 PM at Woodland Presbyterian Church (42nd and Pine). Pastor Sam Lee will be our guest speaker. 




Here is a silly picture I found of their family. The magic of facebook....


He is the Pastor at Harvest International Center in NJ.  http://www.harvestic.com

Here is some bio of Pastor Sam Lee...

Sam Lee grew up in a traditional Korean Church in Chicago, Illinois, his hometown. After seminary he went to Africa to be a missionary where he expected to spend most of his life. While serving in a local church in Kenya, God challenged him with a strong conviction: that to fulfill Great Commission, he needed to raise up people with the same desire. Sam felt that God was calling him to come back to America to start a church for that purpose. And while he didn’t have any experience starting a church and with no support and no funding for his vision, he came back to America excited for this new vision.

When he came to the East Coast in late 1995, he had no money, no members, no place to meet and no place to live. Everything he owned could fit into half of the trunk in his Isuzu Stylus.

Looking for a place to live, he eventually stayed in the basement of some friends and started Harvest Community Church with John Kim. During this time, Sam experienced the “wonderful provision of God”, even despite the fact that the church didn’t have members after many months of fruitless evangelism on Rutgers campus. But the difficult beginning began to take its toll and Sam started to feel discouraged; as doubt crept in, he wanted to give up. It was at the lowest points, however, that God showed his provision: one day, Sam received an anonymous cashier’s check in the mail for $5,000.

As time went on, the church grew to seven people, but still didn’t have a place to worship, and for Sam, a permanent place to live. God again provided by opening up a house on Bayard Street in New Brunswick across from a church. Sam finally found a place to stay – but on the condition that he clean the church. Those were trying times and a place for humble beginnings, but the trying times were about to give way to an enormous blessing.

One Saturday night, God gave Sam a vision of a small white church. He took it as a clear sign as to what to look for: a building that looked like the one in his vision. He started going around to different churches to see where they could meet. Eventually, he passed by a small white church – exactly like the one in his dream – and he knew that this was the place where God wanted him to go.

The morning that Sam came to visit Somerset Baptist Church, a small African American church, Pastor Robinson was praying to open up the church to other groups. Pastor Robinson had a vision to work together – but with who? His congregation was not open to the idea at the time, but they had no idea that that was all about to change.

In Pastor Robinson’s sermon that Sunday, he had prepared a message on Joshua 6. Incidentally, Sam also had his morning devotion on Joshua 6. That Sunday, instead of Pastor Robinson giving the message, he said to Sam, “God has called you to preach.” Sam spoke on breaking down the walls and his message did exactly that – the congregation was crying and holding hands together, visibly touched and moved. The walls came down. Two weeks later, Pastor Robinson told Sam that he could use the church......for more bio...

http:///www.harvestic.com/About/History.aspx?lang=EN

Congratulation Abe and Jenny!!! Our missionaries to England has a new addition!!! God is faithful!!!



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