24 December 2009 ( Christmas Eve Candlelight Celebration ) – 11:20pm evening
SPEAKER: Dr. Robert H. Schuller
MESSAGE:Best News!
"I want to share with you tonight how the promise of Christmas was that we would have good news. The angels came to the shepherds and they said we bring you good news, great tidings of great joy for there is born to you this day in the City of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord. "
5 December 2009:
SPEAKER: Pastor Bill Hybels - founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago,USA
MESSAGE: "What we Can Learn in a Downturn"
"And I find that in a downturn, sometimes God whispers to us that this is the time for a do over. This is the time to get a clean sheet of paper out. This is the time to go back to God's financial plan and to put our faith in His wisdom."
TESTIMONY: Rebecca St. James
(Rebecca was Grammy award winning Christian artist and author)
"I grew up as a Christian and then when I was 14/15 I read a devotional book that really helped my relationship with God really kick in. So two things that I'm really passionate about are devotional books and purity."
12 December 2009:
SPEAKER: Pastor Bill Hybels - founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago, USA
MESSAGE: "When God Whispers"
"But what I look for around Christmas more than anything else is for a whisper. A whisper from God."
TESTIMONY: Bronwen Healy
(God saved her from a life of prostitution and now helps to rescue others)
"Purely I think because we dare to go where God's told us to go and we dare to pioneer a ministry that not many people want to work with drug addicts and prostitutes every day, and I just kind of feel like if I can use my past to help change other people's futures, then my past happened for a reason."
20 December 2009:
SPEAKER: Dr. Robert H. Schuller
MESSAGE: "Christmas: When God Visited Earth"
"God visited this earth. When that happened, everything changed. Faith, intelligent, affectionate, responsible, healthy faith came to this world."
TESTIMONY: Sharon Kips
(Sharon was the winner of Holland's version of American Idol shares her passion for helping inner city children and also shares her incredible talent with the Hour of Power.)
"The way the sun lights up the dawn, the hope that I feel in my heart and as far as I can tell God's alive and well, yeah."
27 December 2009:
SPEAKER: Luis Palau- world renowned evangelist
MESSAGE: "The God of Invitations"
"There's nothing like it. When human strategies fail, when the economy tanks, when your investments drop 40 or 50% and you're in despair, Christ says come to Me, come to Me. I will take away the burden."
TESTIMONY: Craig DeMartino
(Craig lost his leg after falling one hundred feet in a mountain climbing accident, but gained an incredible faith in God.)
"I had a daily devotional book and I didn't like them, really, to be perfectly honest and so I thought well I'll open this up because I've got nothing else to do and I flipped to July 21st, which was the day that I fell. The headline was 'How far does God have to go to get your attention?'"
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