Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Easter



We had a great Easter!! God really blessed! What a great crowd . . . . . overflowing with visitors!! One Mother had all 5 of her sons and their families in service as well as her husband. Her Mother-in-law had prophesied in a Revival service with Evangelist David Smith that her family would all be in church . . . . well on Easter she had 2 sons, 6 or 7 grandchildren, around 7 or 8 great-grandchildren as well as some other family members all in service!!! There is great revival taking place in that family!! So many other lives were touched that day!! We believe that this is the most fruitful Easter we have ever had . . . . .so many people loved what they felt and promised to be back. One of our ladies used to work at Sears and had 5 of her coworkers in service as well as some of their family members!! Two of them have recently started attending Bayside and two others said they have been looking for a church and felt they had found the right one!! It was so incredible to see peoples lives so touched and praying all over the sanctuary! Jessica, a 12 year old that was reached through Bus Ministry had recently asked my husband to pray for her. He prayed for her as well as gave her a prayer cloth. She took it home and told her Mom about it. Later she was so excited telling us that God had touched her! She said her Mom, Veronica, wanted to keep the prayer cloth!! All this past week, I felt Veronica on my heart. Although I had never met her, just talked to her on the phone, I went to visit her on Saturday. She was there on Sunday praying. . .her first time in a Pentecostal service!! I know her life has been touched from what God has done for Jessica. My in-laws brought their neighbor, a beautiful German woman named Helen. She is 87 years old and has never been in a Pentecostal church! She was very moved! Steve and I along with my in-laws are starting a Bible Study with her next week!!! She is very excited about it!! On Thursday nights, we have a Connect Group at the Newsome's home. Sis. Margaret has been very sick for the past several months. She was able to be there on Sunday for the first time in over a year!!! They also brought a new young lady named Josie who just started coming to our Connect Group!! Pray for us. . . .we need a new building!! This is just a little taste of all that God is doing in the southbay area of Los Angeles in Torrance! It is very excting!!!
Josie, Rex & Margaret Newsome with us on Easter! They are from our Thursday CONNECT Group at the Newsome's home. This was Jose's first time in a Pentecostal service! God is doing incredible things in this CONNECT GROUP!!!

Helen with the world's greatest in-law's, Paul & Margaret Saiz
Our family. . .Steve, Debbie, Vanessa, & Steve Jr.

10 comments:

Gene Holley said...

That is so exciting! I know those feelings exactly. It is so much fun seeing what God does in people's lives! Congratulations! We are praying for you.

Mark Pryor said...

Awesome. Great to see the pictures and read about the great Easter you all experienced.

Jana Allard said...

YEAH!!! Thanks for sharing your wonderful Easter with all of us in the blog world.
P.S. What a good lookin' family you guys make!

iluv2prshim said...

Absolutely Wonderful! Great pictures. Thanks for sharing!
Love ya'll

Catherine Roseberry-Meyer said...

Fantastic report!

Anonymous said...

Great report! Gorgeous family.

Love you all.

Shirley Buxton
www.shirleybuxton.wordpress.com

Krista said...

That's awesome!! I love hearing about everything God is doing in Cali! :) I love the family pic!! Yall look awesome!! What a gorgeous family!! :) Love yall!

Tredway Tales said...

It is so great to hear about the great things that are happening at your church. God is pouring out his spirit upon all flesh. May God continue to bless you and your church.

Windows In My Soul said...

Hey guess what?? Apparently I have a blog on here too. hee hee. Found it again when I was looking you and Gayla up. So I guess this is me, and will be trying to keep it up this time. =o)

So happy to have met you and absolutely had a BLAST with you and the others in London & Paris. I'm already making plans to save for next year. *sigh* it will take me that long.

Jen

Linda Elms said...

This is so exciting! I love seeing the work of God grow, and grow, and grow!