It's Back-to-Church Sunday

Good friend, musician, songwriter and preacher, Ron Jarman, joined us this morning to lead us in worship and bless us with special music.

Ron, thank you so much for driving over from Purcell, Oklahoma to minister to us.

We were also blessed with visitors Kim and Becky, who are friends of Ron's.  It was a joy to meet them and share a fellowship meal together here at the chapel.

You are invited...

This is the flyer that Don and Dennis will be distributing door to door in the community.

Update letter from Chaplain Dennis Maloney

Hi everyone.

Just a quick note to tell you of our Labor Day weekend at The Sycamores Community Church and how we spent it.  Don and LaVon Baker, Jack and Karen Gregory and Sally and myself felt the need for a prayer and fasting time prior to the kick-off of Sunday services here at the Sycamores.  We began this discipline on Friday and ended today, Sunday, September 1st.  

On Friday morning at 9 AM Clay Turner, associate pastor at Lindsey Chapel here in Eufaula, led us in a time of devotion concerning the Lord leading us on narrow pathways and the fact that we are to be meek and gentle in our personal walk.  (Matthew 5:5).  This was followed by a time of corporate prayer where we sought God's PERFECT will for such a time as this as we move forward.  The remainder of the day was spent in individual prayer as we sought to re-ignite our walk with Jesus.  

Saturday morning Pastor Tim Turner, senior pastor at Lindsey Chapel, brought us a devotion on doing the right thing in the right way.  The scripture he used was found in 1 Samuel 13:8 where Saul offered sacrifices to the Lord.  It was a good thing done in the wrong way.  Pastor Tim reminded us that as we seek to serve Him we should do those things that honor God and do those things in the prescribed manner found in God's Word. Following this we met for corporate prayer and then dismissed into the remainder of the day seeking God in individual prayer.  

Sunday we each went to our respective church services (we have scattered out among local partner churches for Sunday worship until such time as we begin here at "The Sycamores") We each heard powerful messages on the Holy Spirit and on The Great Shepherd.  We broke our fasts with Sunday noon meal as we fellowshipped around the noon meal at the fellowship hall at "The Sycamores".  

We gathered back at 5:30 PM for Chaplain Don's message from Matthew 9:36-38.  The Harvest is plentiful and we are to ask the Lord of the Harvest to send out workers.

God has been good to speak to each of us during this time.  Our devotion times, our prayer times and our individual seeking of the Lord has indicated our direction to us.  We are to begin, here at The Sycamores Chapel, a community garden.  We will teach life skills and lessons through parables from the garden.  At the same time, we will feed the hungry and teach them to fish.  Please pray for our kick off here on September the 15th.  God is going to do a great work.

Blessings

Senior Chaplain Dennis Maloney

International Director

CRM Int'l

Clay Turner

Riding lawn mower..

Praise the LORD!  We have a riding lawn mower.  We are so amazed by His provision and faithfulness to meet the needs here.

To our ministry partners, THANK YOU!

The carpet is down...

We are rejoicing that the funds have come in to install the new carpet in the fellowship hall. This gentleman and his helper, his granddaughter, did a great job and even installed the linoleum in the new foyer and one of the bathrooms.

  The dark spot is on the camera lens, not on the new carpet.

Sycamores Chapel update from CRM Sanctuary Outpost Director

This is an update of where we are with respect to October meetings and our construction schedule.

Yesterday we completed the septic tank fields that will enable us to host larger gatherings.  We put in 230' of lateral lines and another freeze proof water faucet.  We have begun the painting of the exterior walls and we will soon take delivery on a portable building we will use for washing machines, driers, and freezers to hold the food stuff we are putting up both to feed the mission family this winter and to share with the less fortunate.  The two projects are expensive but necessary and the septic system is fully paid for.  We have a new air handler in the sanctuary thanks to the gift we received from Chris and Vickie Kilpatrick.  Chris put it in and it is a wonderful unit for our needs for now.  We hope to place new split units in the fellowship hall and sanctuary at a later date as funds allow.  The painting is done in the fellowship hall and we have had the carpet installers in to measure up for the carpet to be placed in the fellowship area.  Once again, that will have to wait until we receive additional funds.  We are ready for the metal roof which will connect all of the separate buildings and that is our next large project.  The metal will cost $3,500 and we have the team to install it.  We have had a gift for the chairs in the sanctuary but we still need the tables and the fellowship hall furniture.  The canning and preserving sinks are here but we need a propane stove for the actual pressure cooking.  We also need a washer and dryer for the wash house and the funds to wire, plumb and heat and air condition that space.  As always we will do the actual work to complete it.  We have the propane tank for the propane canning stove and everything necessary to hook that up.

We are holding a prayer meeting on Tuesday mornings at 9AM and a Bible study at 6:30 PM on Tuesday evening and have had three salvations in the two [free] clinics [Eufaula and Onapa] we partner with.

We are planning on feeding the people of this area.  Here are some statistics for you: 675,000 Oklahomans will go to bed hungry tonight and Oklahoma is in the bottom 5 states for hunger related issues in the United States.  Oklahoma Native Americans have casinos and gambling halls on every corner practically and as you would imagine, many choose this way to try to win themselves out of poverty.  They need a Savior.  We are here to introduce Him to them.

Please pray for the needs of this ministry.  We need to complete the construction phase by October. Our mailing address for tax deductible gifts is:

The Sycamores Chapel,

Rt.2, Box 2131

Checotah Oklahoma 74426. 

May God richly bless you as you serve Him.

Dennis and Sally Maloney

Progress report

For a while we thought we might get a good rain, but only got a sprinkle.  The air got cooler, though.

Yesterday, the plumber did a great job of putting the dirt back as smooth as possible.

The plumber also added a new weather proof faucet behind the storage building.

Sally has seedling trees that will be planted before the fall.