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The Media Messengers have decided to add an all rap/hip-hop concert on Friday August 24th from 5:30pm-8:30 pm at Riverfront Parks concrete amphitheater. This concert will feature Lansing's own rap artists, Jerome, Trini D, Holy Cydal, Evangel, and Juan Salazar. Come for the music stay for your chance to win one of five MP3 players by winning our hip-hop dance contest!  Addmission is free!

Homeless and Desperate

I want to share a wonderful story with you about a former homeless married couple who came to Bless Fest 2006. They stayed the entire day and night at the festival. They also visited the prayer tent on the festival grounds and asked for prayer and turned in a written prayer request. They both were raised Christians, but they re-committed their lives to Jesus on that day. Here is the beauty of how God does things. Kathy & Scott, had arrived from the Greenville, Michigan area, four weeks before the festival. They were living hand to mouth, from shelter to shelter by day and slept under bridges by night most of those days. On the festival day, they prayed earnestly that the Lord would help them in their dire situation and God began answering their prayer, almost immediately. On the festival grounds, they ran into an old friend from Greenville who was on our volunteer team. He encouraged them to seek God, and after hearing that their back packs had been stolen, he went to a store and purchased two new ones for them. The couple enjoyed a wonderful day of free concerts, free food and fellowship. Early on the following morning, I returned to the festival grounds to do some additional cleaning. I noticed a couple sitting on a park bench up on the hill. The Lord told me to go speak to them. When I approached them, I began a friendly conversation and let them know that I was picking up after a festival we had sponsored on the day before. They told me they were at that festival all day and that they loved it! This couple was Kathy and Scott. Our conversation continued and then I asked to pray with them.

 (under a Lansing bridge)

God gives Hope!

As we prayed, the Lord gave me a word of knowledge for them. I spoke directly as God revealed it to me. I told them they would both get jobs, an apartment and after that a home of their own. I let them know that God had heard their prayers and that they should stay close to him. I also let them know that we would help them in any way that we could. We exchanged numbers and planned to keep in touch. God placed them on my heart and I’ve continued to speak with them for the months following. Almost right away, they found a warm, secure place to stay at a Christian’s home, near downtown Lansing. Less than three weeks after the festival, Scott called me at home and was excited to tell me that he found a full time job, with benefits! Two days later, Kathy was offered two part-time jobs! She took them both! About a month after that, they called to let me know that they were moving into their own nice apartment, close to a downtown church where they had been attending faithfully. Praise God!

Precious couple, lovingly serves God with renewed devotion.

I feel that the Lord lead these two into our care. I continue to pray for them and have visited with them. Other wonderful Christians have supplied them with home furnishings, etc., but Kathy and Scott are both very resourceful. This precious couple will continue to grow both spiritually as well as materially. The last time we spoke, Scott stated that they are excited about volunteering for Bless Fest 2007! Thank you all for praying and participating in Bless Fest ‘06, especially all of the anointed bands and selfless volunteers! Thanks to all of the other Christians and Christian organizations that have also blessed them, in the last few months it has really made a big difference! Their story is truly a happy one that should be repeated over and over again! That’s what the Bless Fest is all about...blessing others! Rev. Rudy Henderson

Tuesday, July 4th, the Media Messengers team and Bless Fest supporters, will be presenting their float at the Lansing 4th of July Downtown Parade, to invite the City of Lansing, to the 2006 Bless Fest! Come on out and support the mission.