Fruitful Living Monthly Review and Updates (September)

 (September Postings)

Fruitful Life began in September of 2004. All this month we have celebrated and reflected upon our 19 years of ministry in south central Pennsylvania. Part of our reflection involved reviewing and rehearsing the prophetic words and promises that were spoken over this ministry.

We also used this opportunity to speak forth our role in rebuilding, restoring and renewing hearts and homes through the Fruitful Life Learning Community and its STEP Forward Life Institute. Check out part of that vision casting word at Prepared for the Prophetic Promise. 

  

Prayer Watch

- "You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV 

Fight for Your Family

https://www.chrisandcarolgreen.com/family-prayer-campaign

 

Prayer Agenda/ Daily Prayer and Devotionals

https://www.fruitfullifelearningcommunity.org/prayer

  

Spiritual Wellness Support Group

Feel free to join our weekly Midweek Prayer Connection as we unite from coast to coast in the United States. 

-         Wednesdays at 7:00PM EST, USA

-         The Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/972473313

Extreme Life  Makeover: Come Out of the Old

https://vimeo.com/862286540?share=copy

Extreme Life Makeover: We're Building Again 

https://vimeo.com/864268915?share=copy

Extreme Life Makeover: Giving Birth to the Vision

https://vimeo.com/866789944?share=copy 

Extreme Life Makeover: This Could Be Your Moment

https://vimeo.com/869173204?share=copy

  

News and Announcements

Honoring the Life and Legacy of Bishop Paul T. Veney, Sr.

https://urbanlifefamilypost.blogspot.com/2023/09/honoring-life-and-legacy-of-bishop-paul.html

Christ-centered Life Coaching: Accredited Certification Course Available 24/7

https://fruitfullifeleadershipeducation.talentlms.com/catalog/info/id:127  

 

Sunday Webcasts

– Replay and rehearse these profoundly powerful messages from the Sunday postings in the Hearts and Homes Community Site.

 

Prophetic Promises: We Were Sent

https://vimeo.com/channels/leadershipsummit/237497194

 

Prophetic Promises: Strategies

https://vimeo.com/channels/leadershipsummit/237497790

 

Prophetic Promises: Recommissioned

https://vimeo.com/channels/leadershipsummit/237498125

 

Standing On God's Promises

https://vimeo.com/163119799

 

 

Householder’s Treasure

– Midweek short video clips that posted in the Hearts and Homes Community Site.

Confessing Our Faults (Broken Places)

https://vimeo.com/channels/icymi/93217219

 

Stop Playing Games With God

https://vimeo.com/channels/icymi/93217374

 

The Hundredfold Blessing

https://vimeo.com/channels/icymi/95693055

 

You Must Be Born Again

https://vimeo.com/channels/icymi/96464218

 

 

Books and Blogs

Staying in Your Lane

https://chrisandcarolgreen.blogspot.com/2023/09/stay-in-your-lane.html

Urban Apologetics: Cults and Cultural Ideologies: Biblical and Theological Challenges Facing Christians

https://www.amazon.com/Urban-Apologetics-Ideologies-Theological-Challenges/dp/0310142997

 

Rest, Retreats, Revival and Other Comedies: You are Success in Process

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1539728234

 

Health and Wellness

Mental Health and Wellness Support

Christianity and Mental Health (Uniting Faith and Counseling)

https://www.fruitfullifelearningcommunity.org/christianity-and-mental-health

 

Beyond the Altar: Amethyst Roberson, MA, LPC, NCC

https://www.fruitfullifelearningcommunity.org/beyond-the-altar

 

Elephant in the Room: Mental Health and Wellness in the Church

https://www.fruitfullifelearningcommunity.org/elephant-in-the-room

 

 

STEP Forward Life Institute

– Add to your faith…. Knowledge. Continue to be equipped and empowered for the work of the ministry in your home and community.

 Personal Growth and Spiritual Maturity

https://www.fruitfullifelearningcommunity.org/personal-growth-maturity

 

Fruitful Life Education Certificate Courses

https://www.fruitfullifelearningcommunity.org/certificate-courses

 

Our Resource Library – Recommended Books and Courses

https://www.fruitfullifelearningcommunity.org/library

 

 

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Honoring the Life and Legacy of Bishop Paul T. Veney, Sr.

Minister Chris Green gives the invocation at the funeral service
held at Life Center Ministries for Bishop Paul Troy Veney Sr., 82, of Harrisburg.
September 15, 2023. Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com

Today, I was humbled and honored to be given the opportunity to minister the Invocation to begin a royal Home-going celebration of one the most regal and noble souls that we will ever meet in our lifetime.

Before lifting up words of prayer, I shared the following:

"Twenty years ago, in the summer of 2003, my wife and I were in the midst of a two-year preparation to plant a ministry in Harrisburg, PA. It just so happened that Bishop Paul T. Veney, Sr. was going to be traveling through our home city of St. Louis, MO. 

His daughter, Lisa was a good friend of one of the young women in our church, and this young lady, knowing that we were going to be moving to Harrisburg, contacted us to arrange a meeting with the Veneys. We shared a meal at a restaurant and this mighty man of God, without hesitation, welcomed us to Harrisburg a full year before we ever arrived.

Little did we know that God was making us part of, what I now call the Veney Thread. We’re all here today because of the way God used this great man and his family, like a thread that has connected people across ethnic, social, economic, denominational, and generational boundaries and barriers. 

Little did we know how God was going to use this great man to tie us in to, weave us in, sew us into this community the same way God used Barnabus to connect Paul with the elders of the early church.

If you look across this community, you will see the results of the Veney Thread and the powerful way that The Father has used this man to connect all of us in our various callings, appointings, anointings, giftings, and assignments in such a masterful orchestration of relationships."

Bishop Veney's legacy will be kept alive and well in our STEP Forward Life Institute. Two of his sermons are featured in our Personal Growth and Spiritual Maturity Courses.

The Invocation:

Father God, we stand here today in the name of Jesus Christ, and we give You all the Glory for the things You have done.

When we look across this auditorium, we see the true representation of what it looks like when Your Kingdom comes and Your will is done in the hearts and lives of the countless men, women, boys and girls whose destinies have been impacted by Your servant, one Bishop Paul Veney.

We thank You for his life! We thank You for pouring out Your love upon us through his life. We heard Your voice when he spoke. We were flooded with Your wisdom when he was teaching us. We felt Your heart when he embraced us. We even experienced Your joy when he smiled and laughed with us. 

Although we didn’t always recognize it, we look back and we recall Your love when he had to correct us. And we were amazed by Your presence when he would lift his hands in worship with tears streaming down his face.

God we thank You!

And as testimonies and stories are shared throughout the remainder of this gathering, we declare that You are welcome in this place, even as we honor Your servant whom You used to show us the Father’s Heart. 

Let everything that is said and done from this point forward bring honor to Your matchless name. 

And it is in that great name that we pray, In Jesus' name; Amen.