Great Awakening of 2009?

Living in "Grace" City... (as many like to call it Sin City, and rightly so for so many reasons)..."but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more" (a verse in the Bible from Romans).... I have experienced God's grace in many ways since arriving, including learning to navigate traffic. Just the other day on W. Flamingo, I passed 2 wrecks on the way to the office. I was thankful for God's "traveling grace," indeed. Meeting other "newbies" here (who are trying to share Jesus' love with those in Vegas), is always encouraging. I wonder if God is answering the prayers of 10,000 who descended into Vegas on October, 2007 for the Call (prayer conference). Indeed regardless of the theological persuasion of the conference, God answered prayer. Here we are!

Settling in involves a lot of things that you may not think about for church planting, such as numerous trips to Wal-mart, Doctor's, Churches, local Vegas cuisine such as "Marie Callenders," (good home cookin'), the 215, E-W Traffic, seeing and praying for "The Strip," which can be seen from virtually any point of the city. What does church planting look like so far for reaching Eastern Europeans in Vegas? Well, so far it has involved Prayer, sharing idea's with others, more prayer, visits to local European markets, restaurants, etc. I am thankful to have met a Russian believer who is praying about how to be involved. God was already at work, I hope to join Him in that work which leads me to...

Blackaby. We (Nevada Baptist's and others) were privileged to hear from Henry Blackaby, his son Richard Blackaby, John Franklin, and Dr. Dwayne Mercer, at the 2009 Nevada Evangelism Conference. You'd think that listening to 3 sermons in succession would get boring, but not when you are hearing such deep spiritual truths from the Lord through these guys. Questions raised such as: Is America already enduring minor judgments from the Lord to wake up the church to our mission? Are we fully surrendered to all that God wants to do in and through us? Are we willing to pay the price in praying for awakening, revival, and being open to however God wants to use us? These are very brief snippets of the Conference, hopefully I'll share more later. Ultimately, God was glorified! That's what it's all about. And may He keep receiving all the glory from all of us for what He has done, is doing, and will do!