Catch the Vision

As many of you know, we had a big church planting event last Thursday. It was called "Catch the Vision." Hershey's Ice Cream, the store next to where we are thinking about leasing speace, catered ice cream cones and caramel corn. We had coffee and cocoa and a few musicians came out and led us in a time of worship. What was most incredible was that about 120 people came out to see what God was up to! We only had about 80 chairs set up so there was a lot of kids sitting in laps and people standing in back.

I spoke briefly on the need in the community for a new church. In the Bailey's Grove development right next door, there are a couple thousand people who aren't part of a faith community. This could be our chance to be the community church for that neighborhood.

It's always great to see what God is up to when he's just about to do something big. Obvisously, starting a new church is big but along with that comes changed lives. Some people who work in the stores in the building we're looking at dropped by on Thursday to check things out. For some, it was their first time in church. Granted, they wanted to promote their business but I'm sure it'll be exciting to seewhat God does.

One last interesting coincidence is that in my talk I mentioned the story in Genesis 12 where God calls Abraham to go to a place he'll show Abraham later. I spoke on how it struck me that Abraham had to pack up before knowing where he was moving and how we're planting a church before knowing every last detail. We trust that God will provide the details. Well, our sponsoring church, Brookside, just celebrated 50 years since they started. They chose to use the same Gen 12 story to talk about what a leap of faith it was to start a new church in 1959 and how God provided the details and impacted so many people.

It's fun to see God at work.

I'll have pictures on Facebook shortly.