Observations from Last weekend

When we participated in the Kim Clement meetings at Pheasant Run in St Charles I had several random observations I wrote down.

 

I'm glad I went and I will go again.

 

Here they are in no particular order:

 

• Really Loud and very Rocky.
• Pastor Lyon and Ben Peters sitting right up front, old guys rocking out
• Ladies of Color in Color all Orange and an Orange hat
• Half Dozen Shofar Horn Blowers - All Shofar all the time
• Age ranges – 16-25 and 45-infinity (where is the Middle age crowd?)
• The crowd was such that no one knew where the platform stopped and the congregation began with dancing and demonstrative worship
• Sound Problems are everywhere, or maybe it's my hearing
• 70% on Friday Nite were women and girls, More balanced on Saturday Nite 
• Not too surprising the number of women, led by a woman pastor
• Comment by a friend of mine, You finally got your church plant in St Charles even if for only 2 days.  I guess, but it's not enough.
• A third were black and Hispanic
• Not coming for what they get, but what they can give in Singing Dancing and Banners
• Parking lot was full. IL, IA and WI.
• Cost $10 per service to attend.
• And an offering was taken
• Half were from the local area by a show of hands.
• About 3500 people
• The worship and music was all spontaneous, no words up on a screen but people caught on and sang
• Band played people sang in all spontaneous worship
• Many had just returned from Lakeland Florida.
• I used to know everyone at these meetings. I've been hanging around the wrong people, I only saw a few dozen I knew.
• Maybe women came because it's a handsome long haired prophet was there. I don't qualify in that department
• Most of the people old and young are there to seeking a hope and a future by the Prophetic Word
• Hardly any preaching per se.
• Not one song was one anyone had ever heard of before ever, all new, all spontaneous
• Sing the new song, send the oil
• Any smell of anything religious is repulsive to this crowd of people.
• Things seem upside down when you lose control and that's good. He turns them upside down for you
• Not many Cadillacs or Mercedes in the parking lot, but no junk either
• Contending for a word or for healing happens in the Glory.
• Very unfamiliar, kind of scary, thunders and lightnings, The presence of God is moving, even terrifying.
• If it was familiar and comfortable it wouldn't be God
• People there were hungry for God, full of Faith and Hope because they have little else.