I want to thank everyone for the positive comments about the sermon last weekend! I know that the Call On Jesus website was down at the time, but it is up and running again…if you missed the sermon or if you’d like to watch or listen again or get the CD or DVD: www.CallOnJesus.com.

This week, I’ll be in Cincinnati attending the North American Christian Convention (NACC), which is a yearly gathering of Christians all over the world. There are booths, workshops, praise music, and awesome main sessions every night that are like going to church for a week straight! Bill Hybels—author, speaker, and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago—will be one of this year’s speakers.

“Living Dangerously” is the 2008 theme. It connotes the charge to each of us as believers to live a life less ordinary and to step out of our comfort zones for Jesus.

I am involved in leading several workshops and sharing with others about Dream of Destiny, the ministry I founded last year to promote greater, racial diversity in the leadership within our Christian churches, schools, and organizations. (You can check out www.dreamofdestiny.org for more information.) I have been asked to serve as the president of the NACC in the summer of 2011, which is a great honor and a joy! I would love to see as many of you as possible attend that year. Please visit www.nacctheconnectingplace.com for more information about the NACC.

Dear Pastor Rutherford,I am sure that you and the staff at shepherd of the hills have been asked to be involved in many programs in the community. Michelle is a friend of many of my friends from college and is an amazing, strong and wonderful person. She was diagnosed with Leukemia last year and has just found that she’s relapsed. The worst part is a huge blow because they also found a tumor in her brain. She has a lightness and goodness about her that has inspired many people to help try to find a bone marrow donor for her.We have created an organization called “Project Michelle” (www.projectmichelle.com) to increase the number of registered donors. Although the drive is centered around Asians, I’d like to coordinate with people in the LA area and have marrow drives setup at one or all of the church campuses with your permission. In these dark times for her family and friends, they need God in their lives. She has until June 21st to find a donor. I pray that there is something that we can do through shepherd of the hills. Through the blood of christ, we were all saved and through his blood, I pray we find someones blood to save Michelle.Please let me know if there is anything we can do. Thank you so much for time Pastor Rutherford.Sincerely,Andrew Kim510.913.6141Attendee of Porter Ranch