This past Sunday we celebrated our first birthday as a church. It's been an incredible first year. Although there are areas where I thought we'd be further along, and even though things haven't always gone as smoothly as we would have liked, we feel extremely blessed as a church.
One blessing in particular will come to fruition this month when Solomon's Porch moves into its very own permanent facilities. While we feel extremely blessed to be in this position after just one year, it's also a pretty big step of faith for us, especially financially. Here's something I've learned during this process though. Walking into the blessings of God sometimes requires taking great steps of faith. Sometimes God blesses us just because he's God and he can. Sometimes his blessings are a result of our faithfulness in doing his will. We're walking in the latter.
So, by the end of January, we should be having services in our new home. This building is just one more tool we believe God is going to use to help us reach our community. In the coming months, we're going to be introducing the church to the people living immediately around us, we'd appreciate your prayers.
Thank you for believing in our church. Thank you for your prayers and words of encouragement. Keep 'em coming.
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Feels Like Chi Alpha
Before planting Solomon's Porch, my wife and I spent eleven amazing years in the world of college ministry. I think I speak for her when I say we loved every minute of it. However, if there's a downside to ministry on a college campus, it has to be finding space on campus to meet in. This is a problem we had to deal with for the first 7-8 years, until we were able to build our own student center (thank you Life Fellowship in Weatherford, OK).
Even though our college ministries days are over, we find ourselves dealing with the same problem regarding meeting space. We've been meeting in a hotel since we started doing pre-launch services in October of '09. Over that time, we've met in pretty much every space they have available. Thankfully, Chi Alpha prepared us well for this type of inconvenience. That being said, the inconvenience reached new heights this past weekend.
On Saturday, I received an email from the hotel letting us know our time with them was over. Starting in November, we will no longer be meeting in the hotel. It's always tempting to panic or get upset when something like this happens, much to my surprise though, neither happened. Without going into a lot of details, I believe the timing of all this is God ordained. I don't know what's around the corner, but I believe God is in the middle of it.
Right now we're praying for direction and wisdom. Do we find another hotel and/or temporary meeting space? Do we go ahead and use this time to find a more permanent location? Do we go into homes? We're not quite sure which direction we'll end up going, but here's what I do know. We will not panic. God is in control!
Even though our college ministries days are over, we find ourselves dealing with the same problem regarding meeting space. We've been meeting in a hotel since we started doing pre-launch services in October of '09. Over that time, we've met in pretty much every space they have available. Thankfully, Chi Alpha prepared us well for this type of inconvenience. That being said, the inconvenience reached new heights this past weekend.
On Saturday, I received an email from the hotel letting us know our time with them was over. Starting in November, we will no longer be meeting in the hotel. It's always tempting to panic or get upset when something like this happens, much to my surprise though, neither happened. Without going into a lot of details, I believe the timing of all this is God ordained. I don't know what's around the corner, but I believe God is in the middle of it.
Right now we're praying for direction and wisdom. Do we find another hotel and/or temporary meeting space? Do we go ahead and use this time to find a more permanent location? Do we go into homes? We're not quite sure which direction we'll end up going, but here's what I do know. We will not panic. God is in control!
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