Mahnomen, Minnesota Outreach September 23-25
I’m writing to ask for your prayers for the upcoming outreach on September 23-25 in Mahnomen, Minnesota. This outreach, which is sponsored by area churches, will include an exciting Family Fun Music Festival on Saturday. Here’s the plan:
Friday Night, 7 p.m., Revival Service, Area Service Center, Mahnomen
Saturday, 2 p.m., Family Fun Music Festival, Mahnomen County Fairgrounds
• 2-3 p.m., Super, Super Saturday Kids Rock Bible teaching, music, prizes and games w/fire truck and hay rides
• 3-5 p.m., Music Festival featuring The Ueland Family, Joel and Kathy Andersen, and Shane and Amy Mercer
• 5-6 p.m., Barbecue
I would like to ask you to do two things:
1. If you live in the area, will you invite others to come to Family Fun Music Festival and other meetings to hear the Good News of salvation through Jesus Christ?
2. Will you pray for these meetings, that God will touch many lives and draw many people to Himself and into the churches?
• Pray for an awakening of spiritual truth, love, and power among Christian believers, that God’s people would be stirred up to reach out to those around them with the love of God, for a spirit of unity and love to prevail among the believers, and for a fervent spirit that would come to a boiling point and spill over into the entire region.
• Pray that people who are away from God would be drawn to the Family Fun Music Festival and that they would experience not only the message of the cross but also the love of God in operation through Christian believers.
• Pray for me as I will be preaching the Gospel at the Family Fun Music Festival and the other services. Pray for all the pastors and churches that are working together for this outreach, for all the musicians and singers, and for the other workers. May all that we do glorify God and lift up the name of Jesus.
God says, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” Jeremiah 33:3, KJV. Let’s expect great and mighty things.
Pray! Pray! Pray! And I will see you soon.
Tom Shanklin
Press Release. . .
Churches to Sponsor Family Fun Music Festival in Mahnomen
There will be a lively Family Fun Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 2-6 p.m. at the Mahnomen County Fairgrounds.
The event will include Kids Rock children’s program from 2-3 p.m., a music festival from 3-5 p.m., and a barbecue beginning at 5 p.m. The children’s program will include music, teaching, games, prizes, firetruck rides and hay rides. Musical groups include The Ueland Family, Joel and Kathy Andersen, and Shane and Amy Mercer. Tom Shanklin, an evangelist from Mankato, Minnesota, will also share a message of hope during the event. The festival is open to the public and admission is free.
In addition, there will also be two special services at Area Service Center in Mahnomen during the weekend. On Friday, September 23 at 7 p.m, there will be a a revival service, including prayer for Mahnomen and the surrounding area. Gospel music artist Spike Nordenstrom will lead worship and Tom Shanklin will speak. On Sunday, Sept. 25 at 10 a.m, there will be a United Church Service with Tom Shanklin at the Area Service Center.
The meetings are sponsored by Healing Waters Church of Mahnomen, Good News Fellowship Church of Gary, the Christian Outpost of Twin Valley, and Tom Shanklin Ministries. Other area churches and ministries will also be participating and helping with these events
All events are open to the public. For more information, contact Pastor Kurt Svendsgaard at 218-935-2912.