God said “I will pour out my spirit on all kinds of people and your sons and daughters will prophesy and your young men will see visions and your old men will dream dreams and whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved". A vision. Without it a church flounders and with it a church flourishes. A vision is, in essence, a picture of God's preferred future. And the vision I want to share with you today is as old as the prophet Joel, as powerful as the one on the day of Pentecost and is as current as the morning news.

The hand of God is upon us. The same God who encountered Moses at the Burning Bush, called Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and empowered the early church to change the world, is calling us to be faithful. It takes the hand of God to accomplish the purposes of …