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How to Build a Modern Church 101

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((hug))...though I know with "your Asperger's", you probably don't really want one, lol .

 

Now that is hilarious!

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Here is the full documentary "The Keith Green Story":

 

I just watched the clip. Keith Green did so many amazing things!! At first he seemed pretty legalistic, but later on in his life he had a shift in his focus, and recognized the love and mercy found in Jesus. :):):)

 

What a great story (well, the clip cut off at the most heartbreaking moment, which I'm glad I didn't see).

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I'm so curious about your time in the space program, pih. It sounds amazing!! :). Not sure if you're able to share, but what are some of the spiritual possibilities that you were exposed to there? Any great memories you're able to tell us here?

 

If not, no problem :D. I bet it was interesting :).

 

It was AWESOME...and the perfect work environment if one exists. Everybody was focused, on the same page, mostly working together well, all having the same goal. Nobody was up in anyones business (at least not until the mid 90's) because they were too focused on their own job. At the same time we had FUN. We had water fights in the summer, played jokes on people. There was such a wide variety of personalities that seemed to all meld together.

 

Working 12 hours a day 7 days a week was no biggy...I remember 15 hour days at times. No one wanted to go home, they used to have to force people to go home (not kidding), it wasn't unusual for people to stay for days at a time. Thinking it's the reason CA has some of the labor laws it has today. The company started to fear for peoples safety.

 

I could seriously go on forever about this...when the Spiritual aspect took hold with me was during the last Modification of Columbia before we lost her. There was this "feeling" we all had that something wasn't quite right. I remember anointing the Nose Cone (with my cotton gloves on of course).

 

God put the pieces together for me concerning the deep attachment we all had. I thought it was just people loving their jobs and taking them seriously- no it was far more than that. During this Mod, I had complete spiritual freedom, meaning God kept me hidden, I could pray in tongues VERY loud, have open travails and no one would see them. We had company sponsered Bible studies everyday at lunch. It wasn't unusual to see a group of people huddled praying. There were down times inbetween processes and I remember laying hands on many, praying in tongues over them...it was completely accepted.

 

Then the Lord taught me of the Heavenlies and I knew that what we all were doing was beyond "us", it was of God. Pie, it seriously is a third heaven experience (meaning like what the Apostle John experienced when writing the Book of Revelation), but God closed our mouths like He did in the days of old...it is undescribable...I don't have the words.

 

Then I began to sense trouble. At that time I was involved with a Prophetic ministry in Kansas. A bunch of us were having dreams and words given to us of Columbia's demise. This was after we delivered her to the Cape. Yes she had been on many missions, but we fixed everything possible and the Cape took over where we left off and did an outstanding job as usual.

 

This is going to sound very strange to some, but those Shuttles were/are my babies...the depths of despair everytime we completed one and rolled her out then give her to the Cape, but elation at the same time knowing we gave everything we had.

 

This is where I understand M30 and his choices in "jobs"...people used to think I was nuts...14 lay-offs in a 25 year period. After the completion of a new build or mod ther was a lay-off. I always went back because that was where my heart was.

 

Pie, this is a very small description and have stuffed all of the feelings in this area...it's amazing I can type even as there is a radical healing taking place in the form of letting go...crybaby is an understatement right now lol.

 

I worked in all areas of the surface insulation (the white and black stuff on the outside) and also the inner thermal protection (the silver and white stuff on the inside) ...Challenger and Columbia actually had gold blankets (insulation) on the inside, later to be replaced with the silver ones.

 

Wow Pie, thank you, this is a trip...I really feel like I can move on now- God did a work here.

 

LOL, the Modern Church ... the Shuttle Program was my Mega church! We reached the heavens!

 

M30- you should have named this, The Healing Thread ...lol

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pih ~ Wow. That is so incredible :). What an intense environment, and time in your life. I can't believe so many people there were getting together to praise God. And prayer @ work?! That almost never happens now. Oh, and people being forced to leave the job...doesn't sound very much like "work", huh? :D

 

Working on the insulation...it must have been a little stressful, thinking about the importance of the construction. I remember at school once they showed us a piece of the type of insulation used around that time. So cool to think that that was your job. :)

 

I'm glad that you were connected to God, and were able to connect so deeply to everyone you were with during that time. It's definitely a testament that you wanted to return over the years; your heart was truly in it. And you're absolutely right, money should not be the driving force behind everything we do.

 

Thanks for sharing, pih!

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pih ~ Wow. That is so incredible :). What an intense environment, and time in your life. I can't believe so many people there were getting together to praise God. And prayer @ work?! That almost never happens now. Oh, and people being forced to leave the job...doesn't sound very much like "work", huh? :D

 

Working on the insulation...it must have been a little stressful, thinking about the importance of the construction. I remember at school once they showed us a piece of the type of insulation used around that time. So cool to think that that was your job. :)

 

I'm glad that you were connected to God, and were able to connect so deeply to everyone you were with during that time. It's definitely a testament that you wanted to return over the years; your heart was truly in it. And you're absolutely right, money should not be the driving force behind everything we do.

 

Thanks for sharing, pih!

 

No thank you and M30. It's amazing how God moves and works...when one least expects.

 

Not being one who believes in coincidence- you all had no idea you were being obedient, but because you are driven by the Spirit, even simple unknown obedience is no problem- and because of this I was healed of a hurt so deep I didn't know it was there. You guys will never know how much you've done for me, and I pray that God blesses you all beyond all human comprehension...wow:love::love::love:

 

For so long I felt my life was over, and wasn't sure exactly where it was coming from, you know?

 

Now this is what I call "church" in a Mega way!

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