Dear Church Family and Friends:
The angel announced peace on earth and good news to men when he heralded the birth of Jesus the Messiah. The shepherds all gathered together to go and see what the angels were telling them. This message of good news remains with each of us today. We need to have the same attitude of the shepherds to personally go and worship the Lord and to bring others with us when we go. Let me ask you a couple of questions. How important is it to you to be at church each week to worship Jesus? I hope all of you say and practice that it is very important. It takes a real emergency to miss attending church. Next I would ask you how important is it to you to bring a new person to meet Jesus personally through our local church? I would like to ask each of you to prayerfully invite new guests to church each day or at least each week. Take our business cards with you and hand them out wherever you go. Let’s create a culture of saying to others, “Let us go see what the Lord has told us about.” We will have two great opportunities next week with my annual Christmas message and our candlelight service. Let’s all pray and invite friends to join us during these times and then let’s carry it over into every week of 2010! – Pastor Greg

Dear Church Family and Friends:
It is December and retailers are hoping that we spend money on Christmas presents to turn their 2009 fortunes around. I am a big fan of giving gifts, receiving gifts and not being cheap when doing so. I think we should honor each other who is worthy of a gift with something that truly blesses them rather than notching another name off our lists. I also want to encourage everyone to spend the money you have available for gifts not the money you don’t. Many in America will go into credit card debt to buy presents which is not a financially wise way to steward our wealth. Pray over your gift list and ask the Holy Spirit to direct your purchases. He will lead you to the right presents at the right price. Let’s honor our Lord’s birth with presents that fill our heart with joy and not buyer’s remorse. -Pastor Greg

Dear friends and family:
As we recently experienced God’s healing in our Restoration Sunday I am encouraged to see what can
happen when we surrender to God’s Spirit and allow Him to work through the problems we face in life. Today I want to remind each of us to remember the way of God’s peace in all that we do. We are called to be ambassador’s of Christ. We are literally carriers of His peace. How do we do this in a practical way? We need to guard our hearts from negative confessions about our family and those that God has connected us to. We need to stand guard for each other in the spirit and speak blessings and words of encouragement. If we see something that our brother or sister is blind to, we should meekly offer to help the situation instead of standing as a judge. In the same way, we cannot be offended if someone we love reveals a blind spot to us. These are some practical ways to walk in reconciliation and move forward through our victories we have experienced. – Pastor Greg

Dear Church Family and Friends:
As we approach Thanksgiving as a National Holiday I would encourage each of us to embrace thanksgiving as a daily way of life. Recently while hosting Bishop Jacob he marveled at all the blessings in our natural surroundings from the roads we drive on to the tranquility of our neighborhoods at night. He then said to me, “My brother, I think that so many do not even take one moment to thank God for so many blessings.” He was not being critical, he was stating his observations. We have so much to be thankful for but perhaps we focus on what is lacking. Instead of being thankful, we are anxious about something that is wrong. Have you ever looked backwards through a telescope? It makes big things small. Perhaps we are looking through the wrong end of the telescope every day. Let’s turn the telescope around and start thanking God for every blessing every day throughout the entire day. – Pastor Greg

Dear Church Family and Friends:
Today is Restoration Sunday. This is a term I heard while in prayer for our congregation. We have suffered
greatly in the past two years from economical problems. As we have dealt with these problems doors to emotional pain and distress have opened against us. I believe the pathway to recovery is to find the biblical principles that operate in an opposite spirit to what we are facing. Today I am going to share these principles in faith that we are going to break through the spiritual barriers that are restricting us from the life God intends us to live. Be ready to receive today and practice what I share with you as you go home and into the week -Pastor greg

Dear Church Family and Friends:
A new door way to share the gospel of Jesus Christ has opened for us. Vision Heaven TV which operates out of Norway and broadcasts into twenty six countries including Israel has selected my leadership training
to be aired on their broadcasts four days a week. The Transformational Leadership series airs on Monday and Wednesday nights and the Heart of a Leader airs on Tuesday and Thursday nights; Seven Mountain Leadership is set to be released in the future. The programs are aired on the Galaxy 19 Satellite in North America and on Hotbird 6 Satellite for Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. You can watch from your computer at http://www.visionheaven.com/. If you have any friends or relatives in these areas, please let them know about the program. Vision Heaven TV has been established to share the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout all the nations. My heart’s desire is to develop leaders in all the nations of the earth. Leaders will continue the gospel being preached from generation to generation. This is a wonderful opportunity that is currently free of charge allowing us to go into homes around the world six hours every week. We continue to have our Sunday AM services broadcast throughout Arizona on TBN at various times throughout the week which is also free. This is a great blessing of favor as we move into our “New fields with new seeds to reap a new harvest.” Please keep all our programs in prayer.

-Pastor Greg

Dear Church Family and Friends:
We will host our annual Global Harvest Conference November 5-7 at Skyway Church. Prior to the conference we are going to conduct our WLI Graduation and Ordination service this Wednesday at 7:00 PM. We are going to license and ordain the following leaders; Philip Brown as our Youth Pastor, Susan Cheatham as our Worship Pastor, Charlie Coleman with Window to Healing Ministry, Cindy Petkovich with Freedom for Life Ministry and Deb Fritch with Lite the Fire Ministry. We will recognize Bishop Jacob Marineni as a commissioned apostle with GTSSS. This is going to be a very special night of honoring and impartation. I would greatly appreciate all our members to come out for this special service to honor those who have proven themselves worthy of this biblical recognition by serving the congregation. Apostles C. Peter Wagner and Che Ahn will join me in this powerful service. Please take time to thank each of these who have touched your life by their commitment to the call of God. A special thank you from someone you serve makes ministry even more special. -Pastor Greg

Dear Church Family and Friends:
Today is the fifth anniversary of Skyway Church here at our Goodyear campus. On October 31, 2004, we opened our doors with double services. We came from a smaller campus by Luke Air Force Base with about 500 members to our new destination. We came to this city with a great sense of destiny and faith, and now host over 1100 people in our weekly services, 1500 members, and over 1000 monthly web viewers. Our ministry has grown around the world to include connecting with over 38,000 believers in India, hundreds in Croatia, and a television ministry now reaching into 26 countries around the world. We have aligned with other ministries to fulfill the mission to make disciples of all the nations. We give the Lord Jesus Christ all the glory for His abundant grace has been upon us during this entire time. I want to thank each of you for making Skyway Church a place for people to come and feel welcome, find God’s healing and experience His Presence when we gather. We are known all over the world as a very special and unique community of believers. I thank God for everyone who has sacrificed, prayed, and served over all these years. It is an honor to lead you in expanding the Kingdom of God. Happy Anniversary!  – Pastor Greg

Dear Church Family and Friends:
We will host our annual Global Harvest Conference November 5-7 at Skyway Church. This year’s conference is “The Healing River of God.” Our special speakers will include, Che Ahn, Chuck Pierce, Peter Wagner, Doris Wagner, Bill Sudduth and Greg Brown. It is a great blessing to be aligned with such wonderful leaders in the modern day Church. These speakers travel the world literally reaching and equipping tens of thousands through out the year and they will be right here with us for three days! There is a powerful impartation from the anointing of these leaders when you come and participate in person. We have been given a special price of $30.00 per person over the regular price of $45.00 for all Skyway members. You need to register on line at gozregistration@aol.com type in HEALING 30 for your special Skyway discount; you can call in your registration at 1-888-965-1099. You will not want to miss any of the morning, afternoon or evening sessions. Your life will never be the same. Be sure to invite your friends from around the city to join you as well. -Pastor Greg

Dear Skyway Family and Friends:
As most of you know we have determined to not host our annual Fall Festival this year. We prayerfully believe that our resources spent for that one night can be better utilized to care for our own families as we help see everyone through the holiday season of Thanksgiving and Christmas. We are preparing to have boxed meals for families in need and presents for parents to give to their children at Christmas. It is important that we continue to be a light to our community on October 31. The Youth Group will be going to the AZ State Fair. It is going to host “All day long Christian music” Jars of Clay will be the main band they will see. Families in our church are planning parties in their homes so if you have children contact the Hoffmans or the church office to find out what is available for your family. If you stay at home, get some gospel tracts and put them in the bag with the candy when visitors come to your door. These are some practical ways we can be in the community and shine for Jesus every day of the year.
- Pastor Greg