Back to Blogging and a G12 Conference

Phew! It's crazy that I've been gone from blogging for so long. I miss all of you! I've been doing my best to keep up with blogs, but haven't had time to comment. We moved into our house on Saturday and have been busy unpacking and arranging everything, then we were out of town this weekend. We drove down to Sacramento (a little less than 2 hours away) on Friday night, then back that night, then back again Saturday morning, and back again Saturday night. Judah stayed with my inlaws both nights, but since Samuel has never spent the night away from me, I was a little wary of leaving him for two nights. We decided to bring him with us Friday night and leave him with them on Saturday night. We got to their house this morning at 10:20 to pick the boys up and had to be at church before 10:30, but as far as I know they did great. Tomorrow is Samuel's birthday. How crazy is that?

We went down to Sac for a G12 conference at a Russian church. The conference was absolutely AMAZING! The first thing that blew me away was coming into a Russian church (where everything was done completely in Russian), with a Spanish interpreter (G12 is based in Bogota, Columbia so most things are done in Spanish), and then everyone from Zion wore headsets so that we could hear in English. I love the G12 vision because you can be with a Russian immigrant and a Colombian citizen and all be like-minded and living for the same thing. We all love Jesus, we want to win the lost and make disciples, we're all focusing on building into women (or men for the guys) and seeing them walk in freedom and destiny.

I cannot put into words what I experienced this weekend. They talked a lot about breaking off all of our worldly attitudes (carnality, religiousity, etc..) and being a person of integrity, of vision, and of power. On Saturday night they had an altar call and I went down there and got on my knees. I literally could not stop shaking (not obviously, almost like I was cold, but I wasn't). I could feel the Holy Spirit instilling in me vision and annointing to disciple the amazing women in my cell group. Sometimes I feel stretched thin and overwhelmed, but I know that is defeat and defeat is not from Jesus. Jesus has has give me, "a spirit of power and love and a sound mind."

They showed a little video clip of their church in Bogota. Since January 11, 2007 almost 12,000 people have been saved. I'm sure most of us American Christians are familiar with crusades where thousands of people are saved and a few months (or even weeks) later almost none of them are accounted for. With the G12, because it's all done through cell groups, every single one of those people are accounted for. They're all going to cell groups every week, have gone to to Encounters to recieve inner healing and deliverance, and then will be discipled and taught how to live a victorious Christian life through the school of leaders. The last Encounter in Bogota had a million people.

If you're looking for a church (I know a few of you are) I highly recommend checking to see if there is a G12 church in your area. You truly will not regret it! One of the girls in my cell group, who grew up going to church in another city said that Zion is, "more real than any church I have seen before." Tommy Teney spoke at one of the meetings in Bogota (their church services are in a coliseum that holds thousands of people, and there are at least 7 services every weekend!) and he said, "I've seen big stadiums full of people before, but there is something different about you guys." (And some other stuff I can't remember. Laura, maybe you can help me out here? ha!)