Jesus healed on the Sabbath -just a punny title to my post ;)

On Saturday I went to church! I went with my mom and my step-dad (Elery), it has been a long time since I have been to the same church with both of them! (Elery goes to this church, while my mom has been going to another).
The church is called Celebration Center, and is the that church I grew up in. Technically it is a Seventh-day Adventist Church but more like a Seventh-day Vineyard. It is definitely not your ordinary SDA church, full of stuck up traditions created by man. No this church has a dance team (SDAs traditionally don’t believe in dancing) and practices the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
When I was a kid this was the type of church that I grew up in. I remember learning knowing the power of prayer. At my church, children saw visions and angles, demons were cast out of people, and words of knowledge were given to people. The Lord was really working through this church.
Then around 1999, the former pastor of the church made a wrong turn in to adultery allowing this sin and a spirit of perversion into the church, which affected the leaders, staff, and the congregation. The church started gradually spiraling downward. Eventually, out of guilt, the pastor began teaching universalism, claiming that everyone was saved no mater what! The church population started to dwindle, as people started to leave (my mom and I to name a few). I remember one woman was asked to leave the church because she was to open to the Holy Spirit. Eventually the population was so small that the church took out the pews and put in tables and chairs, to make the church look bigger.
It was a sad tragedy. Nobody knew why this started happening. I guess it could have been blamed on the universalism but why did that start? We had no idea of our pastor’s affair, until this year. By the grace of God he was convicted enough to step down from office. The church then found a new pastor, one that believed all that the church originally had believed. It was then we were told the truth. At a conference in February the Lord gave me a word about the church. Basically He compared Celebration Center to Hosea’s wife, and told me that he would bring her back and better than she had ever been.
Well I went to church this Saturday, and wow! The Lord has kept his promises! The church is thriving. Jehovah Rawfaw is doing his healing work! The people are back, even the lady who was asked to leave. The church is a family again! At the prayer meetings supernatural healings are taking place, and the Lord is using the new generation of Children to do what He commands!
During the worship service I saw a little boy stand at the bottom of the stage and just start doing some sign language to the song. It was amazing, no one told him to do it. The Lord told me to go up there and stand next to him (to be lead by a child) but sadly I disobeyed. It reminds me of how beautiful the faith of a child is, and how much we all need it. The child then step onto the stage and stood next to his mother, who was singing, and continued his motions. After the song she shooed him away, but the new pastor when up to the boy, patted him on the back and spoke, what looked like, words of approval to him.
I am so amazed by God’s work and I can see that this is only the beginning of this churches rebirth. I am so pleased to see that the Church is staying open to the Lord and all that He has for them.
(Adding to post)
Another thing that I thought was neat was that as a kid there were things that we did in church that I didn't really understand. Like the "Garden of Prayer" Why does the church all gather on the stage to pray together? I mean I did understand it as a kid, but doing it now as an adult is so much more meaningful. We are praying as a family for members of the family. It was just all in all an awesome experience. I wish I could invest more of myself into this family.
(There is so much more that I want to add but don't have the time! :( if you want to know more you can ask me about it. I would be glad to share. For those of you in Paso you can call me or email me, even if you don't want to talk to me about my post!)
It was such a joy to go back to the family and worship with them! I praise the Lord for His goodness, His healing power and His amazing, wonderful, grace!
P.S. If anyone down here wants to come with me, I might be going this Friday night before I leave for Virginia on Saturday! I have forgotten what the Friday night service is like. It has been so long :(