You Make Beautiful Things

“You make beautiful things, you make beautiful things out of the dust”

Those words sung by the band Gungor are some of the words I go to when it seems like God’s church is dead. When it is past dying and it seems like a pile of ashes. When I feel like we are beyond hope. They are the words that speak to God’s ability to resurrect the dead.

And God has been resurrecting the dead. He is solving problems. He is making new life.

One of those sprouts at our church is a new service on Wednesday nights. It is a time when new people are connecting in new ways to each other and to God. You can look at this service from all kinds of directions and see life.

Honestly, I keep waiting for the bottom to fall out. I keep waiting for people to give up on it and stop coming. I keep waiting for people to complain about making a meal to share. I keep waiting for them to stop inviting people without a church home to join us.

But it just keeps going. People keep inviting their friends and family.  New people keep attending. New attenders keep offering to help with the meal. Families keep getting more and more involved with the rest of the church.

And it keeps getting better because now we know what we are doing. We have gotten better lighting candles, praying, finding bible verses, and singing. We have found a way to worship together that is authentic. Kids act like kids and everyone is given grace to grow in their faith. We take communion together and learn together what it means to follow Jesus.   

November 1, we will celebrate a whole year of Wednesday Worship. It’s going to be a special service of reflection and joy mingled together. We hope you will join us. Come see how we have grown, and find your own place among us.