Last Sun night: live worship with Leonard Jones

Last Sunday night, my friend Jeremy and I had the opportunity to see Leonard Jones, the former director of worship at MorningStar, lead worship at Open Heart Ministries in Bothell.  The event was not really advertised, and not that many people in Seattle knew about Leonard anyways, so it was not a large meeting, which turned out to be a good thing.

I had known Leonard from the time I was at MorningStar, and it was good to see him again, this time in my neighborhood.  I chatted with him, and heard about how he is doing.  During the worship set, he shared more about his personal journey in the Lord, over the years.

For worship, Leonard brought two of his old friends, Red and Glenn, both electric guitar players, to jam with.  The leadership at Open Heart was very generous to give them the freedom to play as the Holy Spirit led.  Each person in the "band" took turns to sing his own songs.  Musically, Leonard was playing acoustic guitar, keyboard, and violin, sometimes all three on the same song!

We worshipped to some MorningStar favorites such as Jesus, Bless the Lord, and Burning Bush.  It was a wonderful, powerful, intimate night of worship.  We knew that we were all tremendously blessed by the Lord.
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Great men's group tonight

We meet at Justin's house in north Bothell.  Had sharing, meal, fellowship time, and I brought forth a short message about "Rights & Responsibility" in the Christian life.  Good times!

Survivors are here!

The Survivors, a cutting-edge Christian Pro-LIFE ministry and organization from California, are here in town! Their team have been here for the past several days, doing training and education on the abortion issue. We also had a powerful prayer time last night, at the Living4More meeting at Word of His Grace church, here in Bothell. Praise the Lord for bringing them up here! I think tomorrow morning they will be doing more training at WOHG. Keep us in your prayers! Check out their website at www.survivors.la