Embracing what he's put in our path.

So here comes the winter season. Still getting used to the cold weather. Remembering what's important in the middle of a busy week. Remembering to always put God first and embrace who he as put in my pathway.

Firstly, I want to start by writing about how crucially awesome God is. Our small church was built four years ago on the side of Shelbyville highway after eleven years of taking refuge in Barfield Elementary school. We had a big fat piece of land next to the land we built on, and the man who owns the land promised to sell it to us for $220,000. As our church of about 150 fervently prays for a while and continues to pay off our current building, bills, and other activities within the church, this guy suddenly drops the price by $70,000. HOLY POO. That's like, a $70,000 offering. And he says he'll sell it to us for $150,000 so long as we get it together within a month. THAT'S POCKET CHANGE. We've got this. God is seriously awesome!
We're going to buy the land and expand the church...
This is... well, change!

To be completely honest, It was scary watching everything change. Although it was cool and a huge blessing, it was really uncomfortable, but then this past year our church went under a serious revolution of change as far as routine, getting the worship team together, splitting up the kid groups and the middle and high schoolers and adding small groups and digging into new topics... it seriously rocked. Because of that time of what we'd call "pruning" our church body went through some seriously needed growth and it brought us to an awesome place. And now with some new buildings at our finger-tips and an expansion bigger than we can even imagine, things are really going to flourish and change within the next few years. I don't know how it will look, but God knows and has it all planned. It's going to be great.


The Slab was good this morning- the ride with Emily H. and her awesome jeep, the teaching by Emily D. (who really hates pennies) and getting to listen to everyone else in the group share. We're all learning to embrace what God has put in our path even if it makes us uncomfortable. It's awesome learning how to get out of the box and try new things, because it's all a part of shaking routine up every once in a while so God can reach in different places through us. He's so good. :)