A Baby Shower

As you may know we meet at Cogdill Recreation Center. Since Cogdill is a City of Flagstaff facility, each week we have a rec. center employee at the building. One of these employees is Kendra, a young woman who has been pregant with her first child. Over the past several months we have had the opportunity to build a neat relationship with Kendra, and ask her each week what she needs prayer for. A few weeks ago she invited all of us to her baby shower. Unfortunately almost everyone had prior commitments and was unable to come. However, we decided to give her a shower. We asked her to let us know what she was registered for and didn't receive at her first shower. During our time together, Calvary was able to get to know Kendra better, be generous with her and pray for her and the baby. We love where God has planted us as a church and as individuals in this community. We are so excited about the relationships that He continues to bless us with.

Being Together

Calvary recently enjoyed following the example of the church at Antioch from Acts 13 by laying on of hands and praying to set apart Lainee Pegelow to the work that God has called her to for the summer. Lainee is serving with the Grand Canyon Baptist Church assisting with their summer ministry and she will be serving with the GCBA team traveling to the Virgin Islands for ministry in June.

Family Day Part 2

Rather than the leadership team planning and asking folks to join in, we asked them to pray and ask God how He would have them serve by using their spiritual gifts. If was neat to watch the plans for this day unfold.


Here is a list of the days fun activities...
*planting veggies in pots-to take home
*coloring plant stakes and learning scripture
*a table with resources to know Jesus better
*gift cards from Payless Shoesource so each child could have a new pair of shoes
*a basketball shoot-out
*disposal cameras and instruction to use them
*food
*a dunk tank

Here are some things our Calvary Family had to say about the Family Day...

*I really enjoyed manning the table with resources to know Jesus better, and I got to have meaningful conversations with 5 people.
*I enjoyed being able to pass out about 40 Payless gift cards. I was touched by how grateful the families were when they received this gift.
*I really enjoyed serving and interacting with the people who came.

Family Day

We love the fact that God has planted us in the Brannen Homes housing neighborhood. As Followers of Jesus, we want to serve the people living here. The Cogdill Rec. Center where we meet is a center for activity in this neighborhood. This past Sunday we hosted a Family Day for the neighborhood. So here is why we believe God led us to do this:

1. To Serve this Community Matthew 20:25-28
2. To Develop Relationships in the neighborhood hoping to See Future Needs we could meet Matthew 25:31-46
3. To Interact with People to see if God would open a Door to Share the Gospel Colossians 4:3-6

See next weeks Blog to read about our individual experiences with family day...

Smith Family Housewarming

This past Saturday, we celebrated a housewarming with LaShay and her children. We are so excited that God has provided this home for our family...

Smith Family Move In...

For several months now, we have been asking God to provide a home for the Smith family.They had been living with their Grandmother, 10 people in a small 3 bedroom apartment. We are excited to share with you that last week they were able to rent a nice little house a few blocks from NAU. Last Saturday folks from Calvary were able to help them move in and we are planning a housewarming celebration for tomorrow-Sat. April 12th!

A Trip To St. Louis

Rachel Rollefstad a college student at Calvary traveled to St. Louis during NAU's springbreak. She and 4 other women involved in NAU's chapter of Intervarsity met up with 150 students from other chapters of Intervarsity to minister with New City Fellowship Church in downtown St. Louis. Part of her responsiblities during the week was to assist and elderly christian woman. Thru this she was able to share Christ's love with the womans care giver and lost family members. Rachel shared about her trip and experiences at Calvary on Sunday March 30. She was asked to take the entire service time to share about their ministry, how God had used this experience to impact her life and things we could pray for. Rachael shared that she was impacted by the fact that as believers, we have a huge God given responsibliy to the poor.

Below are some pictures from Rachel's trip...