Monday, July 16
Good to be back…
It was so good to be back at Crossings yesterday…Not that we didn’t have a great time in NYC with the Hollis church, we did. But last Sunday, July 8th, was actually the first Sunday since launch that Monica and I had not been with the Crossings community on a Sunday.
What a weird feeling it was… I’m not sure the best way to describe it.
We longed to be with them last Sunday yet it felt so good to know they had such a great day while we were gone…Bill Wolf did a great job teaching, (check out the podcast), Robert Bennett led a great worship time, Carrie Perkinson led our amazing Kid City leaders, and I’m told we had a record tear down and pack up, 41 minutes.
Honestly, the best part of this whole church planting gig may be getting to work with leaders who step up and own this vision of helping people find their way back to God like our leaders do.
I really don’t know how to describe to you my respect and admiration for these leaders who excel in every area of this faith community---arts, kids’ city, hospitality, set up, aesthetics, small groups, etc.---they are the best, and I’m privileged and honored to serve alongside them.
Mark Nelson at 5:21 PM 1comments
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at 9:03 AM
said... Why God allows me to be apart of this I'll never understand. I am not a writer, I wish that I were. Then I could put into words what it is exactly that I feel. The humbleness and gratitude that I feel knowing that God looked at me, listened to my prayers all those years, and said, "okay - but I'm going to give you more, so much more than you asked me for - you just need to wait. It's not time Carrie." And so I waited - not without asking every week, "is it time Abba, oh please tell me it's time!" Looking back over all the transpired between my prayers and Crossings beginning... of course I had to wait! (Good ole hindsight)
How good is our Heavenly Father that He gives us this place to come together?! And isn't it so much more than we imagined?!
I keep thinking of God in human terms (my simple brain) but I can't help but think of my children and parallel that to Abba and me. Emma and Abbie are so excited about school. Abbie especially. She starts kindergarten this year! The most exciting thing for her is her new backpack. She has longed for a new backpack ever since Emma received hers last year. At least once I hear, "mom is it time? Do I get my new backpack today?" "No sweets, not yet, it's not time." I know the perfect timing and I know that I'm getting her a faboulous backpack with sequins and all the sparkely stuff she loves. She just has to wait. How much fun is it going to be to take Abbie shopping the week before school and give her what she wants and even more than she wants?!
I semi-understand God's love of gift giving. Now if I could just get the whole waiting on his perfect timing thing down.
Everytime I look at Abbie's backpack I'm going to think about Abba's perfect timing and how He brings everything together - sequins and all!