13th ANNUAL LADIES WINTER RETREAT

We are swiftly approaching the deadline to early registration for our Ladies Winter Retreat!  The early registration is $30 if paid by October 1.  You can download a registration form from our website and register by paypal.  You also have time to mail in your form to our PO Box address.  After October 1 the registration fee will become $40.  We need you to register early so we can prepare for your arrival.  We have a catered meal for Friday afternoon....tote bags....door prizes and gifts for any children under 10 you are bringing with you.  There is no registration fee for your children under 10 but we need their name and age to prepare their gift!

This meeting was birthed out of me battling depression after the death of my father in 1999.  I had begun holding Saturday morning ladies meetings in our revivals for a year and felt led to hold a yearly Ladies Retreat in Pigeon Forge.  We are now preparing for our 13th year and we have great memories of what He has done in these meetings.  It is such a time of refreshing for the ladies!  Each year has it's own special visitation that carries us to another place in His presence!

The Lord has been dealing with me for the last several days with a theme for this year's weekend meeting.  I know you are going to be blessed!  Make your plans now to join us.  We have a group rate of $64  at the Ramada Inn that shares the parking lot with the Smoky Mountain Convention Center.  You can get your room by calling 1-800-523-3919 and mentioning the He Died for Me Ladies Retreat.  This room has 2 queen beds for up to 4 ladies.  They also have a wonderful continental breakfast or you can visit the Krispy Kreme Donut Shop or Cracker Barrel next door!

Visit our website...read my letter to the ladies on the Ladies Meeting page....download your registration form....AND GET READY!!!!  SEE YOU IN NOVEMBER!!!!

QUAD CITIES....HERE WE COME!!!!

A year ago we had such a wonderful revival at the Rock Island County Fairgrounds in East Moline, Illinois.  We saw old friends we hadn't seen in a long, long time.  Then, there were new friends we met for the first time. 

For several years, Ronnie and I put up a tent on the banks of the Mississippi River and held a 10 days tent meeting each year.  God was so good to us.....we saw many, many souls come to know Jesus Christ....many healings...and sweet fellowship among the saints.

We are returning again this year!  We will be at the Rock Island County Fairgrounds, 4000 Archer Drive, East Moline Illinois on Tuesday September 3rd until Saturday September 7th.  Services will begin each night at 7:00PM.

We are so looking forward to seeing our friends again this year.  There will be singing....musicians playing under the anointing and lots of worship!  Make your plans now to join us in the presence of the Lord!

SPRING IS HERE....

We traveled today from Mobile, Alabama to Valdese, North Carolina which is about a 10 hour drive. During the entire trip I couldn’t help but notice how green everything is and how fresh and new everything appears to be. Spring was a little slower this year, but she is here! We are still bouncing between warm days and chilly days in Kentucky but the May showers have definitely arrived! That cool drink of water is just what all the new flowers and lawns needed.

I can’t help but see the similarity between the natural and spiritual today. The body of Christ has been in a long winter season. One battle and storm after another has wearied the saints of God…but I hear the sound of the abundance of rain! He is faithful that if He has said it, He will also do it! It is a time of season change. Winter is coming to an end and Spring is here! There is rain! There will be new fruit! It is a time to bloom where you are planted!

We have just come out of our Spring Family Retreat in Pigeon Forge the end of March and now our sights are set on Mount Airy, NC for our Campmeeting with Mike Ferree, Cecil Hamby and many other visiting ministers, singers and musicians. It will be a time to remember! Each year has its own special visitation and this year will be no different. There is something about so many people coming together with the same purpose...to touch the hem of His garment and to leave transformed by His presence!

 I am in the process of mailing out flyers to all our churches with the details of the Campmeeting along with motel information. If your church has not received one, you can email or facebook me and I will be happy to add you to our mailing list. Make your plans now to join us under the big tent on Andy Griffith Parkway behind the Big Lots for ten wonderful nights of Campmeeting in Mount Airy, NC June 27-July 6! Services will start at 7:30PM nightly. We will also have our Minister’s Prayer Breakfast on Saturday at 10AM for all ministers and their wives. See you soon…..

A YEAR OF HILLS AND VALLEYS...

"For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a LAND OF HILLS AND VALLEYS, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
A land which the LORD THY GOD CARETH FOR: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE YEAR.
And it shall come to pass, if you shall HEARKEN DILIGENTLY UNTO MY COMMANDMENTS which I command you this day, to LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD, and to SERVE HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART and with all your soul,
That I will give you the RAIN OF YOUR LAND IN HIS DUE SEASON, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. Deuteronomy 11:11-14

 

As we enter into 2013 we are entering into a year of unknowns.  We have no way of knowing what we will encounter...but we know this with all certainty...there will be hills and there will be valleys...good days and bad days...laughter and tears...and this great promise....that His eyes are upon us....and He cares for us!

 

He has one commandment for us that brings great reward..hearken diligently to His commandment...and His commandment is to love Him and serve Him with all your heart and all your soul.  Serve Him with great diligence and love Him completely!

 

We are in our Father's hands...He wants the same as any Father...the love of His children!  His eyes are upon us...He cares for us...and He will give rain into our lives!

 

Welcome to 2013....the year of the Lord!