Click here to view the embedded video.

Two and one half years ago Jim Woodis approached me about changing the church announcements format into a more entertaining format rather than just reading the bulletin from the pulpit.  Shortly thereafter Henry Griner gave me a small video flip cam and the Sunday Announcements Video Ensemble (S.A.V.E. TEAM) ministry was born.

Over the course of two plus years we filmed over 80 separate mini movies reporting community and church activities and spending several hundred hours editing leaving us with quite a library of outtakes and gaffs that might one day become a DVD worth selling in the lobby to support missions or something like that.  Meanwhile we offer the attached entitled, “the Final Mission: the Christmas Party” which is our last SAVE Team effort.  It was also by the way our most ambitious and includes a new video with many excerpts from previous announcements as well.  Hopefully we saved the best for last. 

Special thanks to Cori and Jeremy Brewer; Michael Calva, Brian, Lisa, Josh, and Jaime Malley; Renae and Josiah Calva; Bob and Marci Pullar, the elders Jim and Henry, and of course Pastor Dave.  There are also other actors that donated their Thursdays or Saturdays to us that are too many to name.  We thank them all for stepping out of their comfort zone to look silly on the big church screen.  We especially thank all the suggestions we got from many of you after the service in the lobby.  We never ran out of ideas.  Finally, we were asked if this was really the last one and we answer by  referring to that great and decisive future hall of famer Brett Favre who once said, “ This is absolutely the last one.” 

J. Brian Calva

Chad and his wife Julia will be at Living Waters Church in Elk River, MN May 14 – 16 to lead Firestorm II. Chad's father Kevin Dedmon was with us in August 2009. Kevin was used by the Lord to release a fresh anointing in the areas of healing and miracles during the first Firestorm Conference. We are looking to the Lord for a wonderful new outpouring of love, grace and miracles with Chad and Julia Dedmon in May.

We want to say thank you and God Bless to Sid Roth for allowing us to share this powerful interview and testimony on our website. We invite you to visit the Sid Roth website to listen to more of what God is doing that is Supernatural.

We want to encourage our members and visitors to our website to contribute directly to the ministries listed below. We will also be taking donations for the next two Sundays,  for Terry Nelson and his ministry in Haiti.

Samaritan's Purse Haiti Relief

Compassion International Relief

Living Waters Church now offers online giving provided by EasyTithe.com, the leading provider for safe and secure online giving to churches.

Make Your End of the Year Giving by December 31st with our new, secure online offering service.

Our online giving service is setup for Debit and Credit Card giving. We are not encouraging anyone to give beyond their means by using a credit card. However, the online systems are currently configured to process both debit (cash/check cards) and credit cards.

For more information call the church office at: 763-241-9682

I was looking at the website of Kevin Dedmon who, along with a ministry team from Bethel Church in Redding, CA, will be at our church to present a series of Firestorm Meetings beginning August 20th. Kevin wrote that, "Drunk People Do Crazy Things." He goes on to say that sometimes we Christians need to get drunk in the Holy Spirit so that we will be able to do what God has called us to do.

I have found that most people have a hard time stepping out in risk in the Kingdom because they are too intimidated by what others will think. I want to suggest that you try getting absolutely drunk on the Spirit of God until you have no inhibitions left, and just see what kind of great “crazy” things God can do through your life. Remember, drunk people do crazy things!

Will you be one that takes a chance to see what God can do with you? Will you join us for a night or two or the whole four nights of meetings and give God a chance to change you from the inside out?

If you are a member of Living Waters Church I hope you already have set aside these important dates to be there at the Firestorm Meetings.

If you live in the Elk River, Minnesota area, or anywhere in driving or flying range of Elk River, I also hope you will set aside August 20th – 23rd to let God have His way in your life.

Our new church website is now live on a new domain name here at: http://livingwaterschurchelkriver.org The old website domain at http://livingwaterschurch-er.org is now forwarded to this new website so that any of the links to the old site will find their way here… how cool is that?

The new website is running on the blogging platform WordPress. Using WordPress will allow us to quickly post new information and provides multiple users from the church to post their own content for each area of ministry they are in charge of.

With the new website we will also provide audio and video content.