Cannon Beach, Monday

It's been a wonderful first three days of our week at the Cannon Beach Conference Center! We've sung 4 times so far and have enjoyed wonderful messages by Ron Cline have been outstanding! He is the president of an organisation that sets up small and large radio stations all over the world to spread the message of Christ to those in impoverished nations that might never have heard His Gospel. The stories he tells of devoted Christians who walk into such desperate and dangerous situations for the cause of Christ are truly inspiring to all of us. The small islands of Indonesia have been the scene of many martyred Christians, and yet there are many people who are so devoted to spreading the Good News that they walk into the face of religeous hatred with the joy of the the Lord.

Ron is speaking on "The Jesus Road", messages that Jesus preached on the road from Galilee to Jerusalem, and the messages are focused on simple devotion to Jesus.

Again, we are so blessed to be able to share this time as a group and I also have the blessing of having my wife and children here with me. It's sunny, but with a nice cool breeze, perfect weather. We are just very thankful to be able to minister here to such an appreciative and sweet group of people.

Your Story: The Key to Comfort, Witness, Worship

Dear Prayer Team,

It’s been a busy couple of weeks at RESCUE! We have been learning lots of new music in preparation for the album and our week at Cannon Beach, and we have been spending some serious time at NorthStar Recording Studio working on the album. As always, we face challenges, but God is good and is helping us through them, as He has SO many times before!

In examining my own faith this week I realized something about Jesus that I have never realized so fully, or so personally until the last two years: He is my rock!

I am coming to lean on His strength without the fear I once struggled with, but not because I am such a wonderful person who has been so “in touch” with God. Far from it! It’s because in my weakest moments I have seen with my own eyes the works of the master!

It isn’t until we face our own Red Sea that we can truly see the deliverance of God! I can read all day that He is a strong tower, but until I am in need of His shelter I will never truly grasp the wondrous nature of His loving protection. How can I value the fact that Jesus is the peace in the storm if I have never sat, swamped in the midst of the buffeting waves.

This is the great comfort of my life: I was completely and utterly lost, but HE found me! My life was a chorus of disjointed and random sounding trumpet blasts and screeching reeds and HE made a symphony, bringing it all into His order!

Not at all consequently, this is also where our dynamic witness to others lies. The blind man boldly told the religious establishment how Jesus healed him. The lame man jumped around and made a general ruckus in a public place in praise to the Healer that healed him. The woman at the well made a huge impact on her community after she talked to the one who truly knew her heart and offered her Living Water.

This is true worship! We don’t need to work up the emotions. We don’t need to make the story of our life more dramatic than it really is. We simply need to draw near to Him and see for ourselves what a marvelous Savior He is, and when we truly see it for ourselves, we’ll have no problem sharing it with the world around us!

Prayer For Steve's Dad

RESCUE Sings for Steve's Dad

On Monday the 1st of July, RESCUE's bass, Steve Cross was dirt biking with his dad and some friends in a fairly remote area. Steve’s father had a problem with the chain and the bike wheels stopped abruptly as he was riding around a bank berm. The bike actually fell on top of him after he was thrown. Thankfully, Steve was with him at the time and was able to get him to a hospital.

He has suffered some broken ribs, a broken collar bone and shoulder blade, and a pulmonary contusion. During our Sunday evening rehearsal on the 9th we headed over to Steve's parents' house to sing a few songs for him and hopefully cheer him up a little as he is stuck in bed for a while. Steve's grandparents were there too and we had a really nice time chatting with them for a while before we went back to rehearsing.

We are thankful that he is recovering well, and we would ask for prayer that he would heal quickly, and without long-term effects.