dennis j adams

For several years my heart has been focused on the care for the outcasts of society.  I asked my self why I do this and come to the same conclusion each time: This is where Jesus found me, as an outcast. The Church never found me nor did it care too but He did. Today as I serve poor, intolerable people in the streets of Santa Cruz, CA I see myself before Christ and I also see them after Christ.  It really is not an easy ministry when you get cussed out and threatened, but the ministry Jesus had was not easy either!

I was cleaning out the “new” church that I am “fixing” from years of church abuse and I saw a book about to be thrown away. The name of the book is: The Caring Church by Dr. Oliver McMahan. I stopped the person from throwing it into the trash and suggested that they read the book! What I really believe everyone reading this blog should realize that it was almost prophetic what happened. (I know, how can something be almost prophetic?) Here is a book written by a a man who has detailed the position the Church should be in on the subject of “Care” yet it was being thrown away in the trash. It seems to me that the Church has often thrown away what really needs to be attended to.

As I was gardening today I realized just how important the matter of caring is. There are so many hurting people in church today!

I look at churches that are really alive in worship and active in the Word and I see a caring church. When I see churches with people who refuse to worship and pray I see a church that is uncared for and not really caring for the hurting. They are inward, confused, and very dysfunctional.

Kathy and I have come to some really important decisions in our ministry: One of those is we do not want to tolerate dead churches anymore. We want to be around life and worship. We are headed into that with the new church we are serving right now. The church we have in Santa Cruz is already there and it continues to be a rockin’ ministry for Jesus. Everyone that visits and sees what God is doing in Santa Cruz, states this: “AWESOME!”

I really believe that God is AWESOME and He is really COOL in everything that He does! Try caring for the hurting and see just how COOL God can be!

Best

Dennis