Ministry report:

Youth Worship Nite at Tabor UMC

Woxall, PA. October 16, 2005.

What an awesome and exciting time we had. God moved in mighty, mighty way. The people at Tabor UMC in Woxall, PA were very friendly to us, they were full of the love of God. Everyone made us feel right at home. A month ago Tabor's Youth Pastor Nic Billman invited me out to speak to the youth and Kim to sing. I was overwhelmed by the amount of adults that came out to the service too. It was a blessing to see so many adults take interest in the youth.

Kim and I went up a day early to Woxall, Pastor Nic runs the Burning Bush Cafe, there were bands playing that night so we went out to support Nic. It was awesome to see what God was doing with the youth at the BBC, it's refreshing to know that the youth have a place to go on a Saturday night that is a positive influence. I was so excited at the BBC that I wanted to jump into the mosh pit and start laying hands on people, LOL. For several weeks God was stirring in me about the weekend in Woxall, there was a high expectancy for a mighty move of God. All weekend God gave me many words of knowledge to speak over some of the leaders and others at the Sunday night Youth service.

Sunday morning we went to Tabor with Nancy a friend of ours who attends the church. We went to the youth Sunday school class, and during prayer my eyes were filling up with tears because I saw a lot of these youth in the spiritual weeks before, and now I was meeting them for the first time in the natural. After Sunday school we went to the morning worship service. There was such a freedom of the Holy Spirit at Tabor. I could feel God's electricity running through me during worship. You could feel a sweet anointing of the Holy Spirit.

After service, I went to Nancy's warehouse where we have minister at before in Perkiomenville. I wanted to be alone with God, and you could still feel the presence of the Holy Spirit that was there a month earlier at the Healing Services we had. I put on some music and did some soaking, I had an encounter with God and He was giving me more words of knowledge for the youth service.

We went to the church early so Kim could practice a song she was singing. Nancy, Michele, Todd, Joyce and Cindy took me, Kim, Nic, and Rachel to the youth Sunday school room to pray for us before service. As we were praying, God's presence filled the room, there was such a heavy anointing that we did not want to leave the small class room. But service was getting ready to start so we had to go to the sanctuary.

The service started with Nic and the youth praise team ushering in the presence of God through worship. It was awesome to see so many youth operating in the gift of music and song. Kim did a solo to Hillsong's Believe. My wife is an anointed soloist. Then Rachel led a youth dance team, and they did a dance to a Karen Wheaton song. My eyes were filled with so many tears that I could not see them dancing. Finally Nic called me up to share my testimony and message. After my message I gave out accurate words of knowledge that God had given me to share. There was time for prayer and ministry, so Kim and I called everyone forward who wanted to pray. It was awesome to see what God did in that service. We prayed for healing and impartation, families were being restored too. The people at Tabor blessed us so much, they have a holy hunger for God. We can't wait to go back again. Except next time Kim and I won't be visitors, next time we will be considered family. We have a love and appreciation for the people at Tabor. God is planting seeds of revival in that church, Tabor is going to make a huge impact in that area for Gods' end time harvest.

Thank you Nic, Rachel, Nancy and Pastor Al for allowing us to be  a part of what God is doing in Woxall, PA. We were truly blessed.

Here is Pastor Nic's report for the youth service that he posted on the Tabor Youth Blog:

WorshipNite recap: Praise God!!!

If you attended the October WorshipNite, you were no doubt blessed! The night was simply amazing and can only be described through testimony. There were about 4-5 churches represented there, we hope to have more of our neighboring churches join us in November, and more of our neighbors from the surrounding communities!

The Youth Worship Team, all 13 of them, did a great job leading the group of about 100 in jumping-up-and-down praise, and on-your-knees worship! It was definitely spirit filled worship and God spoke to the hearts of many! After that, the Youth Dance team, Revelation Dance Team, did an awesome job praising The King with the song/dance "Lord, You're Holy". During the dance many people's eyes were filled with tears as they watched our youth worship God through dance. Afterwards, there was about a 2 minute standing praise offering! After the dancers, Kim Gates sang the song "Believe" and it was powerful! Then Mike Gates, our guest speaker, came and shared his testimony and message. It was powerful and anointed. God definitely spoke through Mike, as evidence of the amount of people who went up for prayer after his message, about half of the room made their way to the altar at some point during the worship/prayer ministry time after the message. Many of our youth and a few parents were there praying until about 10:30pm, (sorry, I know it was a school night, but what can I say, the Holy Spirit was there, and some of those youth weren't moving!).

Rachael and I had the opportunity to receive prayer ourselves and a word of encouragement from Mike and Kim, however, I also had the awesome privilege to lead in quiet worship during the prayer ministry time. It was so awesome to see all of the youth and adults, across the generations, just worshipping their Abba Father together. To see people of all ages receiving prayer, to see youth and parents embrace each other. To see youth ministering to youth, and youth ministering to adults. To see families united and relationships restored, to see broken people being healed, to see hurting people at peace and to see those that didn't know Jesus, realize His love for them! Even Mike and Kim were extremely blessed!

The best thing is, we're doing it again every month! But let's just stop and say "Praise God" for all that He did, and all that he is going to do!

The next WorshipNite is 11/20, I hope to see you all there!

"Lord, send Your Revival Fire to this place!"

Abundant Blessings,
 

Nic