June 6th will be the next time there is a young adults meeting. As usual, It'll be at NTC at 7 pm. The next meeting after that will be June 20th.
For those of you not at the prayer service last night, there was two prophesies that were read that were spoken over NTC over the past few years. Both were about this "house being a house of miracles and healings" and to "go". Go out and get the healing and bring it back to the four walls of the church and to our community. The prophesies came at an appropriate time because I was debating whether or not to fly down to Lakeland Florida to experience the miracles that are happening there. As many of you know, Meghan suffers from extreme neck pain and surgeries, and different sorts of therapies have not helped aleviate the pain. On June 17th at 6am Meghan and I are flying to Lakeland together to pray for a miracle in her, and more importantly to obtain a more accurate view on what is happening in Lakeland. We will be back in time for young adults that night and will hopefully have some great news and insight to share!

No service

No meeting this Friday night.
There is a special service at Cross Current, so we won't be meeting.

Where Are We Headed?

Glad you asked! We have only gathered twice so far, and though it appears to be a small beginning, I am excited at the prospect of what'all is on God's heart for us as a community. There are several objectives I believe we are to keep ever before us. First of all, in an effort to follow the Biblical pattern of Acts 2 as a Biblical Community, we need to be "God-Focused & Others-Oriented." Practically that means we are headed in the direction of seeking God and experiencing His Presence, as well as looking for ways to serve people who may be close to God and others who may be far from Him. What this looks like is that once per month we will focus on Worship/Prayer/Presence/Prophetic Insights/Exhortations, etc., and once per month we will focus on others in some sort of disarming relational context.
Because you are all adults, our times together will require more and more participation by each one of you. You will be overseeing the worship, and greatly helping with a 'disarming relational context' so that the feel of our relational times together emerge from your generation and not ours(even if the 70's were cool -I heard that snicker Wayne-).
In addition to serving others locally, we are also looking forward to connecting on some short term missions trips. As Erwin McManus says, often our most meaningful relationships are forged as we "serve others with others."
We Love You All So Much,
PD & Mary
Barry & Mel

The next meeting will be May 23d. Meghan has a big appointment in Syracuse for her neck (hopefully the doctors will be able to come to a conclusion about what is putting her through constant pain, 24/7) and we may or may not be back by 7 for the meeting. We are still meeting, it'll just be run by Barry & Mel Russell.

What A Time To Live!

I am not sure if you have heard all the going's on in Lakeland, FL. where there is an apparent move of God with thousands of people flocking to experience it. I cannot believe how polarized people have become regarding this happening, some strongly supporting it as an authentic move of God, while others are strongly denouncing it, saying it is not only a mixture, it is actually demonic. People on both sides of the fence whom I greatly admire and respect. So what are we to do? Well I think Paul Johansson did a profound job this past weekend in Massena addressing the Florida spectacle without actually addressing it by name. He masterfully laid out that the purpose of God is always for our Restoration, which invariably necesitates a Visitation from Him, but the Visitation is not the purpose, it is to lead us to Restoration through our response of Obedience to His voice during the Visitation. The Visitation softens our heart in order to respond to God's Spirit, but short of Obedience to His voice, we will only have an experience (as good as that may be) but there will be no lasting change or 'fruit', as Jesus puts it, in our lives.
I would like to share with you on Friday night at least two thoughts Paul Johansson shared with some of the core leaders this past Saturday in light of the present 'stir' in Florida. The first is based on "What holds you up also holds you down," and the second is in regards to how professional sailors are able to catch even contrary winds and utilize them (called tacking) to help propel them in the direction they were already headed.
So, why do I say all that....I say all that because I am sure part of our discussion will be around how are we to recognize an authentic move of God, and how can we discern a false one, since the Bible is so clear that in the last days there will be many "lieing signs and wonders" whose author is not God, but actually Satan himself. Scarey thought, but very real.
After this discussion, I would like to lay out some objectives for our YA Group, and where we are headed.

May 9th

The next meeting will be Friday May 9th! Last time we ended up having a decent turn out, but I am anticipating a greater one this next time. Once again, it'll be at NTC at 7pm upstairs in the "new" lounge. (Starting in the summer months it'll be at our house as well, but for now it will be at NTC).

I really hope that all of you can make it, and possibly even bring a friend or two! :-) Bring any questions that you have or an interesting topic to talk about.

You don't have to bring snacks (some will be provided) but if any of you want to bring anything, feel free to.