Wednesday, July 5
Mid-Term Report...part II
You're going to love this story...Here's a story that encapsulates the work of our Mighty God and what it looks like He is desiring to do in Knoxville...
Monica, the kids and I have been attending the Naperville North site for Sunday worship and two weeks ago, immediately after service, Troy, the campus pastor at this site, came up and introduced us to Nicole & Kevin Saylor. They are from Knoxville and are in Chicago while Nicole is in graduate school. They plan to return to Knoxville when school is finished.
Here is a section of Nicole's blog where she described that morning, previous to when we were introduced...
Nicole writes...
We were anticipating quite a large loss upon moving back to Tennessee. In Knoxville, there just aren't any churches that have the same values as those we had found to be central in our church here. So, occasionally, we'd jest about getting our church up here to plant a church in Knoxville, seeing how we're a church planting church. I started praying over a year ago about where God would send us when the time came to go back to Knoxville (the sense of calling to go back there has not waned). But, we had resigned ourselves to finding a church and had already started scoping a few out and asking around about possibilities so we could visit when we were in town.
But two weeks ago, at church, I was having a 'get to know you' convo with one of the pastors who doesn't know me (that'd be all of them...but one). We got around to the fact that we're from Tennessee:
"What part of Tennessee?"
"Knoxville."
"You're kidding me!"
"No, why?"
"Well, we're planting a church in Knoxville."
"YOU'RE kidding me."
Such a gift that I hadn't expected made instant tears spring to my eyes. I had not even said my prayers in earnest, nor hoped that God would answer my prayer in such a fantastic way. But God did.
To read the whole story go to Nicole's blog
Hmmm...it almost appears as if Someone is in control of all this...interesting...
shalom,
mark
Mark Nelson at 4:35 PM 0comments