Duncan, Oklahoma

Superbowl Sunday and still a great turn out. I thank the Lord that we still had a good crowd of people at our evening service. This week I'll be sitting through the Youth Services. Please pray for me, that I'd be able to connect with the teens. I haven't worked with teenagers since college.

We're all getting a little sick

The Summit here at Parkside Baptist Church in Denison, Texas has been going well, but recently we are starting to battle with colds. I am also one of them. Please pray for our team as we finish up Sunday through Wednesday.

Ladies Luncheon on Thursday was well attended. I think the count was around 180. And today's Home Life Cafe was attended by around 200.

Tomorrow will be another long day. But my prayer is that this body of believers would come ready to meet with their Lord and Savior.

This week I was able to watch the response time at the end of one of our services. One of the messages is about THIRST and how we are satisfying our THIRST in things besides God. WE give out Styrofoam cups and they can write the things they have been satisfying their THIRST with. At the end of the service they can come to the front of the auditorium to place their cup on the stairs and pray and ask God to help them find their satisfaction in Him. Seeing the congregation respond and seeking God to satisfy them is what I love most about traveling with Life Action Ministries. Seeing Christians return to a dependence on God makes all the hardships of traveling week to week seem minuscule.

Sulphur, Louisana

Sulphur, LA was the first conference for 2009. Our 4 day conference has flew by faster than I thought it would. We have gotten back into the swing of things and are working together again. I spent most of my evenings in either Happy Heart City (4 years to 1st grade) or Base Camp (2nd to 6th grade). The services were well attended in the evenings. We were told that the average attendance for a Sunday Evening Service was 50. But every evening was attended by an average of 200! Which was an encouragement to all those who attended.

This week a Jewish man who has been attending the church made his profession of faith known to the church, and was baptized on Wednesday evening. It was a special occassion because our team revivalist is also a completed Jew. Seeing the joy in this man's life is what I love about being a part of this Revival Ministry. I get the opportunity to see people find their joy in the Lord by restoring their relationship with the Lord to the place where it needs to be.

Please pray for me as well. That I would be in the place I need to be in my relationship with Christ.

Starting 2009

I'm back on the road and we are headed to our first Thirst Conference in Sulphur, LA. It's been nice to catch up with some of our team members during our three days of traveling. Half of the team will meet up with the rest of us in LA. 

The next two months will be spent mostly in Texas in Denison, Ennis, Brenham, San Saba,  Lubbock, and Graham. I'm hoping that I'll be able to keep up my blogspot during the year. 

Please let me know if you are keeping up with my blogspot because it will help me to be motivated to update it frequently.

My October Update

October 2008

Dear Prayer and Financial Supporters,

Life Action Ministries has three road teams. My team specializes in the 4-day THIRST Conferences and the other teams specialize in the 11-day Summit and 2-week Summit. My team consists of 3 families and 17 other single aged team members. We travel around America with three trucks w/ 50+ ft. trailers, a semi, and people mover (a.k.a. a bus). We have meetings scheduled in Georgia, Mississippi, Indiana, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Maryland, Illinois, and Virginia.

We have just completed our 5th THIRST Conference and our team is exhausted. We will be running an 11-day summit in Pennsylvania, so we will be able to recuperate a little. We usually arrive at a church on Friday and unload the semi. On Saturday I help Christi with cleaning and setting up their trailer; while the rest of the team sets up all the sound equipment, children’s clubs, and team office. On Sunday, we arrive at the church 2 hours before Sunday School and the Evening Service. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I spend most of my afternoon helping Christi with the kids and spend the evening in Base Camp (our children’s club for 2nd to 6th graders). Wednesday Evening is our last service and ends between 8:30 and 9:30. Then we spend the rest of the night packing everything into the semi; usually we get back to our host home after midnight.

Please pray that we would be wise in getting the rest that we need and God would give us the strength that we need to accomplish each task set before us. These conferences have been emotionally draining but it’s worth it to be able to see lives changed and God glorified.

In addition to our ministry in America, I will have the opportunity to go to El Salvador. In November, our team will fly to El Salvador to build a well for clean water, to teach hygiene to women, and to run our children's clubs for the orphanage. The orphanage currently has over 60 children and the number one cause of death in the country is contaminated water.

My ministry expense for 2008-2009 is $2995 plus an addition $1000 for El Salvador. Currently I have less than 50% of what I need.

To God be all the glory and praise,
Shawntay Celestino

If you'd like to support me financially please send a check to:
Life Action Ministries
PO Box 31
Buchanan, MI 49107

Funds need to be designated to Shawntay Celestino or they will go to Life Action Ministries instead. Also note if you'd like it to be for my Ministry Expense which is tax deductible or my Personal Expense with is not tax deductible.

10 days till Christmas?

So I was listening to the radio and they said there was 10 shopping days till Christmas. And I haven't bought a thing and I'm not even a Scrooge. Life truly is flying by rapidly. My days are busy working and going through my things that are being stored in a friend's basement. But it's nice to be able to fill my time with productive things to do instead of wasting it in front of the tv or computer for hours on end. Before I know it Christmas will have come and gone and I'll be visiting with my family! Yippee!

Quick update

For the past 4 months I've been a part of Life Action Ministries. Its a Revival Ministry based out of Buchanan, Michigan. I've spent 3 months traveling on the road. We've been to 8 different states and then to El Salvador. Right now I'm back in Wisconsin on Christmas break. But will join the team in Michigan in January.