Good Day my Family in Christ !!
How wonderful is the presence of the Lord ! Our time last night with the Lord was amazing ! We began to storm the thrown of God with prayer and His presence fill our church. We then sang TO HIM our hearts out and WOW ! That's all I can say is WOW ! Jessi, our worship leader began to sing " Night and day, night and day let YOUR name arise. Night and day, night and day let worship arise !" HIS presence was there!!  2 people gave their hearts to Jesus and 2 more rededicated themselves to the Lord!   God is drawing the lost hearts to HIM.
  The message was "Go tell some one" The woman at the well in John 4 went back to her village and told them about her encounter with Jesus.
Joh 4:39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed upon Him because of the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that I ever did.   Notice that the woman was a very unlikely candidate to be an evangelist, but the fruit was people coming to Jesus. Another example is the demoniac at Gadarenes. In Mark 5 where Jesus cast out the "Legion" of demons from yet another unlikely evangelist that I affectionately call demon boy, Jesus told him after he was set free to go back and tell his village what God did for him. Mar 5:20 And he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all marvelled. These unlikely ministry power houses brought many people to the Lord. All they did was share their personal encounter with every one they could and REVIVAL was the fruit. God is waiting for us to do the same.
  On another note , the pancake breakfast and hair cutting was a great success!! We raised over $350 to help with the woman's retreat in Sept. Thank you all who participated , helped  and gave !!
We look forward to seeing you this Wed at bible study at 7PM at  ILCC and next Sat night at 6:00.  Come expecting !!
We love and appreciate you !!
Pastors Lee & Teresa

GPS: God's Positioning System

Good Day my family in Christ !!
 What a great  time we had with the Lord and one with another last night at Island Church !! There were many visitors and friends attending with the Power and Presence of God very tangible ! Pastor Teresa has been reading Psalms  95 & 149 and stirring us up before we even begin to sing !!  The more enthusiastically we sing and worship God, the more HIS presence is tangible. The message was an encouragement to follow your GPS. ( Gods Positioning System) . God has great direction for us however we need to follow the prompts to reach our destiny. Just like your electric GPS, we have an antenna that picks up the heavenly signals built right into us.Rom 8:9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.  (NKJ) Also we know that our antenna is on Rom 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness  (ALIGNS) with our spirit that we are the children of God. God built into us the ability to align directly with HIM and be led.  Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
  There are many scriptures that describe who we are called to be in Christ, or  that show us our destiny, (destination). One of our ladies from church Jamie shared a testimony about the Lord leading her toward this young man and had a word for him. Turns out that he had been asking God about the exact things she told him. WOW !   Jesus used GPS to direct Jamie to this young man and his path was set straight. It's not just about us, it's about impacting others for the Kingdom of God. Many came forward for prayer and healing and many were touched by the Lord. One lady had something choking her and one of our faithful prayer warriors cast  a demon off her in Jesus name, and she felt it leave !!  Yahoo Jesus !

  Next Sat. morning we have an outreach / fundraiser pancake breakfast and hair cut day. So please pray for it's success in the Lord and for new people to meet Jesus. It goes from 9 AM till 2 PM.
We hope to see you this Wed night at Bible study 7PM at ILCC and next Sat. at 6PM.
We Love and appreciate you,
Pastors Lee & Teresa DeMatos

Good day my family in Christ! Pastor Teresa and I are back from vacation and we've heard wonderful things happened while we were gone !!  This past week 4 people answered an invitation to receive Jesus and some people were healed !!  Thank you Jesus !!  Zee from Calvary Worship Center came with her team and worshipped the Lord followed by a message from Gram Jones !  The Holy spirit was there and all were moved !!  Gram spoke about getting out of Gods way. Don't keep saying you'll pray about it, when God told you to do something, just get out there and do IT !  Pray, however trust God to be GOD and it will all work out fine.
CALENDER :
Friday August 17 ,2012 7pm Worship night at ILCC. Bring a friend for a night of music, dancing and worshiping the King of Kings!
We can't wait to see you !!
Pastors Lee & Teresa
We Love you !!

2012 Spring Baptism

Good Day my family in Christ !
 First off, thank youl for praying for us, cards and flowers ...  it was all amazing !  We had a great time in the Lord Sat night !!  HIS presence again was with us through out the whole time ! We talked about baptism and leaving behind the old gods from Joshua 24. Israel went through many water baptisms over the years, Abraham from Terah, crossed the river, left  behind their gods and were blessed. Jacob, "Israel",  went to Egypt and came out to be baptized in the Red Sea. But this group held the gods of Egypt in their hear hearts and complained a lot. The result is they did not walk in the blessings of the Lord,but they walked in a wilderness relationship the whole time. The next generation were baptized in the Jordan. Joshua 24:14 "Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
This Saturday we are having a baptism at church ! Please , make a list of the gods of your past as we will burn them ( with out reading them) then be baptized . I want the Lord to bless you and your decision to proclaim HIM as you surrender your old self in the water and rise to new life with Jesus !
We will start promptly at 6 pm. Please feel free to bring food if you like as this is always a celebration !! T-shirt and shorts are appropriate, bring a towel and change of clothes.
 LOVE YOU,
Pastors Lee & Teresa DeMatos

Good Morning My Friends in Christ !!

We have been experiencing the continued love and presence of God at our church services Wed. & Sat. nights. Thank you all so much for praying for God to move with us and in our community ! The message this week was about what we do with our time. In Ps. 25 it says if we wait on the Lord we will not be put to shame. Psa 25:9 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. Psa 25:21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. Waiting on the Lord requires us to spend time with HIM. There are so many things that call for our time. Wait on the Lord, He loves it when you do. 

We are looking forward to seeing you this Sat night at 6 for an amazing time in God's presence !!
Please mark your calenders ! Water Baptism  July 7, Graham Jones July 24 , Koen & Deven Getting Married July 28 th     !!   What a month !!
Please come to all of it as it's a celebration of the Lord !!
We Love you !
Pastors Lee & Teresa

THANK YOU JESUS !!

Good Day My friends in Christ !
 I do expect the Lord to be present when HIS children gather to worship HIM, and last night was no exception ! The worship time was anointed with all the congregation singing loud and beautiful to our heavenly Father. What a sweet presence of God felt by all. The message was about restoration and God is in the restoration business. Starting from John 1:1 - 5 we established that God not only created the world but it became evil and didn't recognize its Creator. As we searched the book of John we found that Jesus came to save the world and came to restore it to its right relationship with HIM. We buy all kinds of lies from the world that draw us away from God, but Jesus came to remedy that. Paul said in Rom 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God. According to  this, our minds need renewing and that's part of the restoration process. We had a wonderful time at the alter and many lives were touched. THANK YOU JESUS !!  
Our many thanks to those involved in donating us new carpet and installing it in our sanctuary and children's room upstairs. The transformation of the building has been so wonderful and life giving. Manny of you have been such a huge part of that through you giving and you serving. THANK YOU !!
We look forward to seeing each of you this Wed night @ 7pm for corporate bible study and next Sat. night @ 6pm. when we will be blessed by a message from Pastor Dr. Joseph Ford of Calvary Worship Center.
We Love you and appreciate each of you !
Pastors Lee & Teresa DeMatos

Good Day my Family in Christ !!

GREAT, GREAT, GREAT is HIS NAME !!!  What a time we had in the Lord Sat night !! After an anointed time of singing with passion to the Lord. Then Holy Spirit gave a great message thru Graham Jones about revelation from God. Deut 29:29The secret things belong to Jehovah our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may do all the words of this Law. God wants us to get revelation from  HIM and pass it on to our children. Not only does HE want us to have HIS revealed things but that we may "DO THEM."
There was an igniting and filling of the Holy Spirit to many, 4 received Salvation, and many were touched and left totally changed !! Pastor Teresa came down stairs from Children's church towards the end of the service and told me  "When hit the bottom stair, I got weak in the knees with the intensity of the presence of the Lord ! "    New people felt welcome and old were refreshed ! Thank you Lord for YOUR faithfulness to always show up !!
We Look forward to  seeing you this Wed. night 7PM for bible study and next Sat. 6 PM for MORE HOLY SPIRIT..........
We Love you !!
Pastors Lee & Teresa