Deerfield UMC starts 12 step ministry

Rev. Evelyn Lemons, with the help of two other women from Deerfield UMC,  is leading a new 12 step ministry at the Hospitality House for those who are working a 12 step addiction recovery program and would like spiritual support. Our group meets at the Hospitality House. We have been meeting for about 7 weeks now, and we would like to thank the church for their support and for Hospitality House allowing our church to come there to provide a service to the residents there. God is working to change people's lives with the power of the Holy Spirit still giving us the daily strength and encouragement to fight the battle with sin and with the help of Christ, live in victory. We believe Jesus Christ is still changing lives and we celebrate every request for help that comes to the foot of the cross. Jesus Christ is still the name above every name that we lift up on high! We have provided Life Recovery Bibles to 7 people who have requested a Bible. If you want to put your hand on the heart beat of where God is working, pray tonight for those in Boone NC who are homeless. It was 5 degrees on my front porch this morning. Our shelter will be filled to overflowing tonight. The Hospitality House is doing such a great work in our community. We praise the Lord for them. Imagine from the view point of one adult who lives at the Hospitality House and wants to go to church on Sunday what it must have felt like when two church vans pulled up this past Sunday to take children to church, but the adults were left behind. We have a very sweet volunteer from our church who made two trips back and forth to bring people to church on Sunday. I am so grateful this person did get to come to church! There is still room on our pew for people who want to worship with us. Praise the Lord for people in this community who have such compassion for people who have some kind of disadvantage or struggle, and want to make a difference in their lives. Deerfield UMC, I am so proud of the ways you keep on looking for ways to love people and make a difference for the name sake of Jesus Christ. This past Sunday from Isaiah 62 we focused on the passion with which Isaiah prayed for Jerusalem. Our challenge is to bring that same kind of passion to the Lord when it comes to praying for the holy work of the church. Christ does want to use us for the holy work of salvation, and mold us and shape us to be a holy people. We all stand in need of a savior. Thanks be to God, Jesus Christ wants a relationship with everyone of us.