You’re a quitter!

Something personal I hate quitting. It has never been in my nature to quit anything and being called a quitter is one of the hardest things for me to take. That’s why leaving the Marines was so hard for me. When I was young I always wanted to make my parents proud. Not only did

David Pat’s workout plan- and leaving for China

I leave for China in the morning and I want to leave you with a blessing. A workout plan!Guys: Please do some cardio and some heavy weightsworkout: 4 sets of 10, only free weights no cables, try to go to failure on your 4th setdiet: drink milk, eat beefsleep: 8 hrs a nightLadies: CARDIO CARDIO

Poor people are the backbone of missions giving

  “Sorry I don’t have any $ but I found this $5 on the ground” That’s an actual quote from someone who put that in the missions offering this Sunday. That little note reminded me that Jesus changed the world with fishermen not businessmen. When I was moving out my sophomore year of college it

Harvest + CEC= super encouraged

To be honest. We went into Saturday being $2000 short for our China missions trip next weekend and I was pretty skeptical that we were going to hit our goal. Instead we raised $4,000 in 24 hrs thru the CEC fundraising night and the missions offering today at Harvest. Now not only do we have

Famous Asian/Latino/Black Christians

Whenever I look at the speakers for Christian conferences I notice how few of them are Asian, Latino or Black. There’s 2 ways to look at this issue. Either Christians of racial minorities aren’t being invited to speak at large conferences or there are fewer Christians from minority backgrounds leading prominent ministries. I think the

Video from my speaking at Contra Costa Gospel Church

You might need to turn the audio up but it’s worth it I guarantee! I had to compress the file cuz it’s hard to find places that are willing to host a 1gb file lol Jonah Sermon from David Pat on Vimeo.