Arizona, church family, Ministry

APACHE KIDS TOYS DRIVE

 

Prescott First Assembly of God is partnering with White River Assembly of God church in collecting toys for their annual Apache Kids Toy Drive. The event takes place on the White Mountain Apache indian Reservation which is currently suffering through a 92% unemployment rate. This toy drive is vital to showing the children of that area that there is a wonderful season called Christmas.

Through us all pulling together, we can make a huge difference in many lives and many families again this year.

The toys collected for the children and teens will be distributed on December 18th, 2011 during the churches annual toy give away program.

Our church will be driving a truck load of toys up the week of December 7 th. – If you would like to donate to the effort you can bring your donations of toys by the church on Sundays between now and then. – Please have the gifts wrapped and mark by age and gender.

You can also mail you gifts to:

White River Assembly of God Church

701 N Chief Ave. or P.O. box 597

White River Arizona 85941

We are really looking forward to partnering with pastor Jeminez and his congregation in blessing and ministering to the people of White River Arizona this Christmas.

If you have any questions post them to this blog.

 

Thank you for joining us this year.

Pastor Steve Lummer

Prescott First  Assembly

 

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church family, Ministry

Need some TRACTION for your ACTIONS?

Do you ever feel like you are just “spinning your wheels” and not achieving your dreams or you full potential? Do you have habits that you can’t seem to break or goals that you have set only to procrastinate and wish you could be more committed? Maybe you see yourself repeating the same old behaviors and trying to figure out why.

Sometimes we can work very hard and lose our drive, feeling like we just seem to get further and further behind. Do you ever feel like  “The harder you try the behinder you get?”

This Sunday our newest series out of the book of James on How to get some TRACTION in your ACTION, @Prescott First Assembly is speaking to the heart of how to get out of a rut and how to stop spinning your wheels.

James 4:14 tells us that Our life is  like a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

If your efforts seem to vaporize, maybe its time to look to God to Get some traction in your action.
So get unstuck and come to church this Sunday
Sunday morning @ 10:00 AM.

Pastor Steve Lummer

Pastor – Prescott First Assembly

“I waited and waited and waited for God. At last he looked; finally he listened.  He lifted me out of the ditch,
pulled me from deep mud.   He stood me up on a solid rock to make sure I wouldn’t slip. ” –  Psalm 40:1-3 (the message)

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COMPASSION FOR THE KIDS OF KENYA

This past September two of  our young adults from Prescott First Assembly traveled to Eldoret Kenya. Kate Pressman and Natascha Kling worked and visited Dominion Children’s Home. They returned home with a great report on the Orphanage and shared some of the needs of the children.
One of the needs they report was simply the need for a swing set.

ABOUT DCH
Dominion Children’s Home of Kenya is a home for orphaned girls and boys in Kenya, East Africa.
In February 2007 we were able to purchase several acres of land in Eldoret, Kenya for the purpose of caring for orphaned children. Later that year Dominion Children’s Home opened its doors and has been providing refuge for homeless and orphaned children ever since. In January of 2010 we opened Dominion School of Eldoret with 23 students attending. Our goal is to have several homes to care for forty children and a school that emphasizes academic excellence in a Christ-centered learning environment. This will allow us to care for, to educate, and to empower every child to fully reach their God-ordained destiny.
Dominion Children’s Home of Kenya
is a component of Dominion Family Services, a non-profit organization based in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It is also affiliated with the ministries of Dominion Church International in Greer, South Carolina. – (www.DominionInternational.org)

I spoke with Ann Fyall this morning and we have come up with an amazing way to provide fun for the kids as well as some employment for some families in the area.

Instead of buying the parts here in the U.S., we are going to purchase the supplies in Kenya and employee some locals to do the work.

Looking forward to seeing the children of Dominion Children’s Home get out and have some fun.

We will have a special Compassion For Kenya Missions gathering Sunday evening @ 6:00 PM and Lou Pressman will challenge us through God’s Word.

If you would like to help us purchase and ship this gift to DCH, you can help by;

Donating a gift to:

Prescott First Assembly
P.O. box 12858
Prescott Arizona
86304

We will purchase and ship the swing

Steve Lummer

Lead pastor – Prescott First Asssembly

Prescott Arizona

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An invitation

I wanted to take a moment and send you my invitation to join Brenda and I this Sunday morning @ 10:00 am.

My friend Bob Kilpatrick will be my guest speaker and singer this Sunday morning.

Here is a brief bit of info. on Bob’s Bio.

Bob Kilpatrick speaks at churches and conferences around the world. His first book, Secrets of the Silence, was released summer, ’09, and his first hardback book, The Art of Being You, was published by Zondervan in December, 2010.

Musicians from Phil Keaggy to Sara Groves have benefited from Bob’s skills in the studio. Still, most people were introduced to Bob’s ministry through his worship songs.

At least two of Bob Kilpatrick’s songs are consistently listed in the “Classic” worship song category- “Lord Be Glorified” and “Here Am I (Send Me To The Nations)”. His song “Bring Them Home” was sung at Mother Teresa’s funeral service in Calcutta, India (Hillary Clinton mentioned to the singer how touched she was by the song!)

A  safe, clean, fun children’s church and nursery will be provided during the adult service.

If I were going to invite you to my church this would be the weekend.

Hope to see you this Sunday.

Pastor Steve

Prescott First Assembly

1455 Willow Creek road

Prescott Arizona

928-710-0750

 

 

 

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Books I'm Reading

Artistically minded?

Just picked up Bob and Joel Kilpatrick’s newest book The Art Of Being You.

n The Art of Being You, it’s the author’s thesis that most Christ-followers take a “math” approach to their faith journey making it manageable with a system of “do’s and don’ts.” Somewhere along history’s timeline, they began to expect the Bible to be more like a textbook/rulebook than an expression of the art and mystery of God . . . living their lives accordingly. We often reason rather than point to the mystery. God is not a mathematician, mechanic, teacher or the Wizard of Oz although we often perceive Him in that way.

The Art of Being You is a transparent glimpse into God’s creative plans and work in our lives. This new paradigm is simple enough yet too large to fully understand and get our arms wrapped around. God is not taking a band-aid approach to fixing us but rather a passionate, visionary artist’s continual effort to express His creativity in each one of us. God considers humankind his masterpiece.

The Kilpatricks clearly explain the difference between “math” and “art” when it comes to our perceptions concerning God. Here are some of the phrases clarified within the pages . . . Math equates while Art creates; Evangelism is Math — Friendship is Art; Generosity is Art and Tithing is Math and last but not least, Fear is Math while Love is Art.

Bob Will be with us @ Prescott First Assembly Sunday morning November 6th @ 10:00 A.M.

Just a side note – One of Bob’s songs was sung at Mother Teresa’s funeral.

Hope you are able to join us for an amazing day November 6th.

Pastor Steve

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church family, Ministry

FEAR FACTOIDS:

Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

The brave new world we live in today has given us layoffs at work, slowdowns in the economy, flare-ups in the Middle East, turnovers at headquarters, downturns in the housing market, upswings in global warming. The plague of our day, terrorism, begins with the word terror. Fear, it seems, has taken up permanent residency in the neighborhood where we all live.

In this two part series we will be looking at the two FEAR FACTOIDS that derail our destiny the most.

Fear of failure and fear of people.

See you Sunday @ PFA Prescott – 10:00 am

pastor Steve

For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love, and a sound mind 2 Timothy 1:7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1 out of 167

There are168 hours in a week. We gather for one, but we live in the 167. Church can easily become defined as a one hour weekly experience. A religious obligation to check off our to-do list, or a once-a-week spiritual meal to sustain us until next Sunday. We believe there’s more. Much more. And we’re committed to discovering what it means to be followers of Jesus Christ in the 167 of this life.

See you this Sunday.

We are still meeting at the 1455 willowcreek road location

10:00 am Sunday

Pastor Steve

 

 

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1000 PRAYER GATHERINGS

I have been to at least 1000 prayer gathers over the last 30 years but last night was different.

Saturday night September 24th was just another meeting like many others I have lead or attended over the past three decades.

But something was unusual about this one.

I am not sure what it was but something sparked in me deeply and personally has the young people around me began to pray out loud and with passion.

I cannot put my finger on it, or point to anything specific, but God used this small gathering to start up something BIG is us that were present.

Ummm – “Small beginnings” … Yes,  “Beauty for Ashes”… new fresh vision makes me feel 20 again.

Looking forward.

Pastor Steve

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Life experiences, Ragbrai, Telluride, Travel, Yosemite

I’ve had my “ups and downs” this summer

The summer of 2011 was an amazing four months of being on the go.

From Missouri, Iowa, to Colorado and California and then back to our beautiful Arizona, it has been a great experience to say the least.

In June Brenda and I were given the opportunity to speak for our friends Pastor Jesse and Missy Quiroz and the thriving congregation called Journey Church in Troy Missouri. (Elevation: 650 ft)

Then in July we took our family vacation to Telluride Colorado. (Elevation, 8750 ft)

After Telluride, was a dream trip to my home state of Iowa for the RAGBRAI (Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa).

Six days and 550 miles on the bike was and amazing experience for me and 10,000 other riders in the humidity of Iowa (Elevation is 580 ft).

(“Bike Tire Dip” in the Mississippi River – Davenport Iowa.)

After Ragbrai, I was able to attend Summit Leaders for four days in Yosemite National Park.  The leadership anti conference is lead by world traveler and adventure nut Joel Malm. This years speaker was author and pastor Mark Batterson of National Community Church in Washington D.C. .

What a great event. We climbed Half Dome (elevation 8842 feet ).

The Cables of Half Dome.

 

At the top of  Half Dome BY the “diving board” not on it.

To wrap up the summer of expeditions, my daughter and I along with 18 others from Journey Church hiked the 17 plus mile hike to the Colorado river through Havasupai Canyon. (elevation 3205 ft at Havasupai village).

It is safe to say that I have traveled some 8500 vertical feet this summer.

Yes it has been a summer of “UPS AND DOWNS” for sure.

What an amazing four months.

I want to adventure as much as possible before I cannot hike, bike or explore anymore.

“The world is a big place and I want to see all of it before it gets dark”. – John Muir

Steve Lummer –  a guy who had a great summer:)

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