THE JOURNEY SO FAR

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Friday, I ended up spending an overnight and most of Saturday with the members of our morning church that help with the worship. The rustic setting was near Colorado Springs in log cabins overlooking the front range of the Rockies (although we didn't know that until morning when the chickens came to visit.)

It was a pleasure for me to find young adults interested in ministry, and wanting to talk about putting their passion for music, graphics and video into service for the King. I had endless times to share about Europe and to encourage them in their ministry locally. There was a great evening of singing, worship and time in the Word as well as prayer in small groups. Then next morning was pretty much committed to prayer and solitude (with a little bit of music thrown in). But most of the time was really aimed at deepening the sense of community they had as a group.

There is a real sense of expectation in the church. At least 20 new visitors come through the doors every Sunday. They'll be adding a third service in a couple of weeks. They baptized 30 people only a month ago. Three weeks ago there was no such thing as a youth group. Now there are 30 young people and leaders who love them. There was a guest speaker today at church that used to work at the church but went to a nearby city to plant a new church. He was awestruck to see that in the room of nearly 200 people he only recognized a couple dozen faces.

We talked at the last session of the retreat about the transition that happens when "spontaneous" service has to give way to "organized" service. Moses couldn't deal with the load on his own, so God raised up others to help. And that's what we're seeing here.

May God grant wisdom and grace to his workers as he draws people to the church.

Durand