Plans Change, Mission Never does

Sitting in my office with Jake as we look at 18 calendars of the Fall. With Covid-19 and not being sure what Schools will be reacting makes planning a a semester a little tricky. What I do know is that the mission and commitment does not change. We still must strive to Know Jesus, Grow Together and Bless the World. Our methods may change, our plans may change, many, many times as we have seen this summer, but what we are charged with does not.

Please join us as we pray over the upcoming year, as we continue to seek God's will in those plans and commit to help fulfill our Church's mission to Know, Grow and Bless.

Proverbs 16:3 Commit your work to the LORD,  and your plans will be established. (ESV)

Wow, What a Summer

This next Winter I will be coming up on my 20th year in ministry and I can defiantly tell you this has been one of the most unique, difficult and stressful summers I have even been apart of. Seems like every two weeks since April there has been some sort of detour sign placed on the road and we have had to make some sort of change to planning. Whether it was Falls Creek, Super Summer, Vacation Bible School, Pre-teen camp, Weekly Sunday Worship, Sunday School, Mission Trips or Wednesday Youth Midweek nothing is what we thought and nothing went on without change this summer.

So where do we go from here, Every week I find myself praying not for normality but asking God to just show me the next step. We have tried every week to meet as church leadership and pray that God would guide our next steps. Not steps that we want but steps that he wishes us to go. This has not been easy, so many families,  so many different points of view, so many areas of concern.

The truth is we don't always know the full plan, we are not always given a 5 year plan. We do however know as the old Gospel song says, Lets just take this, One Day At A Time.

One day at a time sweet Jesus that's all I'm asking from you
Give me the strength to do everyday what I have to do
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus and tomorrow may never be mine
So for my sake teach me to take one day at a time