A Big FX Thank You!

Chuck Thompson
Youth/Missions Pastor

Wow! What a night! Together we had one of our biggest, and arguably one of our best, ministry events ever this past Saturday night. We had workers from elementary school age to folks in their 80’s; workers who are brand new to our ABC Family and some who have been with us for more than 60 years - and we had more team members than ever, too! It was great to see the body of Christ – with all of its Spiritual gifts, Heart’s passions, Abilities, Personalities & Experiences (SHAPEs) in action! We were incredibly blessed to serve with all of you!

“Yes,” it was special to engage, serve and share the love of Jesus with that big BUNCH of folks, but just plain AWESOME to watch our Lord work during the invitation times. Our praying for unsaved folks, our pursuing them in spiritual conversations (bringing Jesus up) and persuading them to come to FX (ultimately Jesus) paid off. We recorded 33 decisions for Christ – most of those for salvation! Please pray for our follow-up touches with these folks this week. We will be presenting many these folks to the church at the conclusion of the worship services this week – I know that you’ll greet and encourage them warmly.

FYI, on Saturday night, we sent our FX guests an e-letter with an invitation to visit our ABC services. We’ll be inviting them to our Christmas programs, too. On Sunday afternoons we’ll make more contact with many of these non-churched folks through RRCONCILE. If you would like to help with this flexible, low risk ministry, please contact Tim (tim(at)apexbaptist.org).

Thanks again for all of the energy, time & love that you invested in our first FX. Every contribution was important, and we trust that as you gave generously, you were blessed richly. If you have any, we want your FX photos so we can post them on the ABC website. Please email these to Adam (adam(at)apexbaptist.org) or drop them off to him ASAP. We welcome, your ideas, too, that will make our FX on Saturday, October 27, 2012 even better!

Lastly, we’d like for you to share a simple blessing, reflection, story or “at a boy” with us about FX so we can rejoice & praise the Lord with you. Send these to Nathan (nathan(at)apexbaptist.org), and we’ll post them on the website. We’ve got one from Jackie Gilbert below:

On Saturday night at 7:00, I had the amazing and totally unexpected privilege to hear the testimony of Kevin Clapp, a member of the FAITH FORCE team, who I had known in Burlington while living there for 10 years. I was in choir with his Mom and styled her hair. Kevin was so sweet, and when he was led astray, she was surprised, heartbroken and asked all her friends, "PLEASE PRAY FOR MY KEVIN". During Kevin's testimony, he told us of the wrong path he'd taken, which mirrored the pain I remembered sharing with his precious Mom. That young man that I thought was lost now stood before me, transformed by Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to speak with such a boldness that made me want to shout! Tears flooded my eyes through his whole message remembering the pain and rejoicing as I was seeing this miracle of Christ right before me. The power of muscles breaking blocks symbolized how God broke the walls of Satan's lies with the message of love- John 3:16. Oh! The power of Jesus love!


I have folks that I'm praying for and Saturday night was a message from the Lord that nothing is too difficult for HIM who IS in control. We just need to continue to trust and pray to Him who is ALL powerful--- He is able to perform miracles!

God is SO GOOD!!