And… We Are Live and Blogging…

Update 5 February 2011 | Comments Off

We are posting to the blog again!  Make sure to keep up on all that is happening at Matthew 10. Right now we’re deep into the planning of It’s Game Time in Tennessee with the Spiritual Heritage Foundation of Knoxville, Chaplain Roger Woods, the UT athletes, and so many more ministries.  Pray for all that [...]

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Game Time At Neyland Stadium – A Historic Venue

Update 4 February 2011 | Comments Off

41 years ago, a historic outreach was held at Neyland Stadium.  Billy Graham delivered the Gospel message to a crowd of unforeseen numbers.  The response was even more memorable than the size of the crowd – 12,000 people made commitments to Jesus Christ over the course of that 10-day Billy Graham Crusade.  What an incredible [...]

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Final Day in Kadapa

Update 13 December 2010 | Comments Off

Today was our last and final day in the city of Kadapa. Our team has had such a welcomed experience here in this city. Even the children living in the homes beside the hotel would bring us gifts and flowers. So humbling. We were so deeply blessed by this beautiful city and it’s people. It [...]

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Day 3 in Kadapa

Update 13 December 2010 | Comments Off

Saturday was our 3rd night of the festival in Kadapa. Our team arrived on the bus in great anticipation of what God would do! A few of us walked out with our photographers, Matt & Stevi Savage, to see all of the trucks that were bringing in the people from the villages beyond walking distance. [...]

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Day 2 in Kadapa

Update 11 December 2010 | Comments Off

It was an incredible service tonight in Kadapa. We were blessed once again by the wonderful worship team from Switzerland as well as the Indian worship. During one of the worship songs many people from our team joined some Indian children on the stage dancing and worshipping the Lord. It was a priceless moment.
As you [...]

Day 1 in Kadapa

Update 10 December 2010 | Comments Off

We arrived in Kadapa around 5:30 am this morning, headed to our hotel and rested a few hours before breakfast. Some of our team then headed to the festival field. Almost a week ago a huge downpour of rain came through the city of Kadapa. Due to the rain and the lack of a drainage [...]

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Bringing a Child a Smile

Update 8 December 2010 | Comments Off

What an experience we had at the children’s home today. We were honored with the opportunity to bless each child (around 400 children) with their very own goody bag! The best part…we interrupted their school day and went into each of their classes and surprised them! Their excitement was infectious to all of us. You [...]

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We’ve arrived in India…

Update 7 December 2010 | Comments Off

We are here! We’ve arrived in Hyderabad, India early this morning at 5:35am (about 7pm EST Monday night). As normal it was a big hunt for all of our luggage with hopes that none was missing. Unfortunately one of our large duffle bags didn’t show up… but the good news is that it will be [...]

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India thoughts

Update 8 October 2010 | Comments Off

I was doing some research on India today from UNICEF’s website (http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/india_statistics.html) and found some of these statistics to be very action provoking. As of 2008, India’s under 18 population is over 446 million! That’s just people under 18! There are over 100 million more people under the age of 18 in [...]

Sunday Morning Church & Suryapet Festival | Day 4

Update 29 November 2009 | Comments Off

Today we attended the local Manna church in Suryapet for Sunday service where 600 members attend. The worship was amazing! It was so uplifting to see the people in the church worship with everything they had! There were even small children clapping and lifting their hands to the Lord! Dr. Pete preached and then closed [...]