Logos Global Network Members in Action: Community Faith Festival

The following is a letter received from one of our LGN members that we wanted to share with all of our friends. Just another of many grass roots outreach efforts going on each week. GOD IS ALIVE AND WELL....... Thank you, Cynthia, for sharing this with us.

On Saturday, November 3rd, we had a tremendous day as Cynthia Montello Ministries held a Community Faith Festival in one of Jacksonville’s most notorious drug and crime centered neighborhoods to rally the community for a day of faith, fun, music and food. An all day line-up of singers, rappers, preachers, evangelists, and testimonies blessed the crowd including Tom McManus, former NFL Jaguar linebacker. The Jacksonville Jam basketball team, cheerleaders and mascots also came to give demonstrations for the kids. The kids also enjoyed a playland, clown and facepainting.

The weather was perfect and we had a good crowd. So many people gave their lives to Christ. People were getting saved right in the street. There was one rapper, Jevon Chalwell, who was so great and he had such a powerful testimony. He had all the people dancing in front of the stage and during his testimony we saw people kneeling down in the grass and we knew they were giving their lives to Christ. It was amazing. People were crying and then laughing. We had over 100 children choose to follow God and we gave them T-shirts that say I CHOOSE TO FOLLOW GOD. We had prayer teams walking up and down the streets praying with people on their front porches and on the street. Many had been intimidated by the drug dealers not to come, but God reached them anyway because the music and preaching swept through the air and was heard all over the neighborhood. People were blessed and God’s Word went out.

Everything about the day and everything about the last 5 months of planning was God in control and it showed me so much about His glory and His provision and His ability to make things happen. As long as I prayed and then rested in Him and waited, He afforded the opportunity every single time and provided every need I had for this Festival. There was not one thing left out, not one thing missing. This Festival was just the beginning of efforts to make a difference in this community and others just like it. Hope and help for children; helping women out of prostitution and off of drugs; helping teens to stop killing each other and to stop using and selling drugs is all part of God’s plan for these communities. Praise God for His power and Glory!!