As we are half way through the busy summer months I just wanted to remind us all to keep our

priorities in order.  I love reconnecting with family and friends that maybe I haven’t seen in a

coons age (I’m really not sure how long that is but it must be a long time.)  Or having memory

building family times like camping outings or road trips to Disneyland.  But in all our travels and b

busyness lets not forget about the greatest relationship that needs to be nurtured and invested in,

our relationship with God.  Our relationship with God is like anyother relationship in that it can be

either more or less intimate determined by houw much investment is made in it.  In our vacation

time let’s not forget about the one who love us most.  Let’s continue to spend time in His Word that

feeds our very spirit and causes that transformation process change us into His image to be a

continual process.  Let’s spend time in Worship that causes our spirits to be lifted by the Holy

Spirit into the very presence of God.  Let’s pray this summer with a new hunger and thirst for God

and all He wants to accomplish in the earth.  Becoming a Jesus Junkie who can’t get enought is

what I pray over everyone as well as myself.  Keeping our Divine Connection current and alive

is so important and it is the place where real joy springs to life in a grateful heart that is in love

with the Creator.  Keep memory making this summer and do not neglect loads of outside fun and

laughter, but DON’T FORGET YOUR DIVINE CONNECTION!

Pastor Brian

Blast off Sunday

Date – Sunday, September 12
Location – Church of the Harvest, 4646 Fox Hollow Rd Eugene, OR 97405
Service Times – 10:30 am and 6pm (Child care will be provided)

Pre-order your cookbooks today! Contact any Acts Youth member or worker to purchase your “Recipes to Change Your Life” cookbook! Cost is $10. All proceeds go to help each student go to Encounter Camp 2010 in Florence, OR this summer! For more information email: actsyouth@harvesteugene.com.

I am at my desk about 1 hour before a Memorial Service of a good friend, David Harris. Reflecting on David and a life well lived it was a real honor to get to experience part of my journey in life with him.    Every human being will eventually step into eternity.  A place without time, a place of ultimate truth.  There is no hiding in that place because the scripture says everything is naked and known before Him.  People have such a twisted concept on eternity due to the lack of true revelation in the modern Church
world.  The idea that when you die God then determines whether you go to heaven or hell is so ridiculous.  It demonstrates great error in our thinking.  Jesus told the Sadducees who were in error one time. “The reason you error is because you don’t know the scripture nor the power of God.” That is exactly why people error today.  The truth is God doesn’t send people to heaven or hell they just enter a continued, progressive journey of the kingdom they live in.  The journey for those who die in the Kingdom of God is heaven.  The journey of those who die in the kingdom of darkness is hell.  There are only two Spiritual Kingdoms represented on the earth. Ask yourself this question, “What Kingdom am I currently living in?” Because the truth of the Word of God is whatever Kingdom you die in is the Kingdom you stay in.  Jesus said in Matthew 25: 41 that everlasting fire (hell) was not prepared for man but for the Kingdom of darkness, The devil and his angels.  Yet how does man end up there?  Well it is not of anything that person has done but what they have not done.  God made a way out of the Kingdom of Darkness through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.  The question to ask is have you taken the way out.  Through stubbornness, pride, deception and hardness of heart men refuse to believe they may need help.  As a person who has personally lived in both kingdoms, I can truthfully testify that the Kingdom of God is much better than the Kingdom of darkness.  If there was no deception in the earth there is not a person alive who would not, receive, love and serve the Great King of Kings, Jesus.  If Jesus stood at my right hand and I said, “This is Jesus, He is the creator of all you see, He is the redeemer of all that was lost and the lover of your very soul.  When darkness and death were your only option Jesus came and paid the complete debt owed so you could go free.  At my left had is Satan, the devil.  He is the father of all rebellion and lies.  He is a master deceiver and destroyer of humanity and all that is good.  Which do you choose?  I promise you everyone would choose Jesus.  As I think about David Harris right now and all he is experiencing on his continued journey into the incredible Kingdom he chose to live in.  Parts
of me are very jealous for him but other parts of me know that I must finish all that God has planned for my journey.  Not so I can go to heaven, but hopefully through my life others can.  David lived his kingdom before his friends and family and now has stepped into a greater reality of it. So David I do not tell you good bye but a simple, I will see you later.

-Seth and Brandi 4.7.10

Had a good report from the doctors appointment and was able to find the right strength glasses at the dollar store so now he sees perfectly. Praise God.

-Martin Juntunen 4.25.10

Was able to get medical benefits totally restored so she was able to see the retinal specialist.

-Terri Juntunen 4.18.10

Was able to minister to a young man from Belgium. He ended up receiving his prayer language and says he’s going to take the H0ly Ghost back to Belgium.

-Pastor Daryl 4.26.10