Saturday, August 28, 2010

Safford Revival

 We just finished revival services this week in Safford, Az. The church is Pastored by Tommy and Clara Seals. It was a wonderful priviledge to get to know them as we have only been able to say hi at conferences over the years. Tommy is a Vietnam Veteran with a wonderful story of salvation and God's healing power due to exposure to Agent Orange as he was a Navy Corpsman serving during a time of combat. The Safford church was pioneered in 1980 by Les and Sally Uptain. One of the great testimonies of this church bears out during a conversation I had with Chad Dale a long time member of the Safford church. He related to me how they had saved most of the convert cards from the beginning of the church in 1980. One day he totaled them up and found that over 7000 decisions have been made in that church oner 25 years. He also told me that number equalled approximately 1/2 the population of that city! I understand there were some repeat cards in there and people have moved in and out of the city, but this is still a great testimony of the power and impact a local church can have.
    Our revival actually began Saturday Night with the music group Broken Wing doing the whole music scene. Many were touched and saved by the powerful testimonies and the annointed musical performance of this group. Many who came to the music scene wound up coming to the revival and being further touched by God. We had visitors every service with some of them saved and many healed. Pray for the Seals as they recently launched out a couple into Cedar City, Utah. The Safford church has been hit like many others due to the economy, but the mines are now hiring back and there is a "fresh wind" blowing in their church.

Cape Cod Revival

I'm updating the last couple of weeks and also making my first entry into my blog, so thats my disclaimer.
   I had the priviledge of preaching in Cape Cod for Pastor Paul Campo. Paul and his wife Linda have been there for nearly 25 years and have had tremendous impact and favor in that city. Before the revival, the church had their annual Morality Parade. They brought in the neighboring churches and had a parade that was problably a quarter-mile long. It was a perfect day weather wise and we were able to testify to many on the streets with the good news of Jesus. They followed with a presentation at the local band shell with a theme honoring veterans and their sacrifice for our country. Many wept as they reenacted scenarios and told of real stories of veterans and their sacrifice for our nation. We followed Sunday through Wednesday with revival services, seeing many saved, delivered and healed. This meeting took place Aug. 13-18