Yes, it is. These have been exciting days around here. Specifically in the life of City Life Church. It's just been one of those momentum weeks, which we definitely welcome! Especially considering that in the life of church planting there are so many highs and lows that some weeks are quite the opposite. So you just have do decide you're not going to be governed by your emotions and how you feel about it, or even what you can see with your eyes and the circumstances. Otherwise, it's just an emotional roller coaster that wears you out very quickly. It's a faith thing. It's a this is what God called us to do thing. So just as with the negative emotions we don't get carried away with the positive emotions and good moments, either. However, I have to admit it's really nice to just stop and celebrate what God is doing sometimes. So that's what I'm doing.
Last week in our new members' class we had 13 people, which is awesome. Then on Saturday a big group of us went and helped an organization that helps people get on their feet and transition from being homeless to having a place to live and a job. Our church gave money, shopped for groceries, and then came that day to help assemble baskets to help 25 families have a meal for Thanksgiving. It was a great experience for the kids, too, as they came along and helped. The men actually ended up helping a single mom move into her new apartment. The lady in charge was saying it was a really big deal for that woman to see men helping her just for the sake of helping, not trying to get something out of her in return. Sad, but a great opportunity to bless someone. It was really a blessing to this organization, and they were talking about what an amazing spirit our church had and even noted how blown away they were with our diversity. We especially love hearing that :) So, go us! Am I bragging on Chris and myself? Nah. Am I bragging on our people? Every chance I can get. Best people in the world.
Forming the assembly line to put together the baskets.
Working hard. But there's always time to be silly, of course.
Addison is into this muscle pose thing, obviously :)
This was our group, minus three that weren't in this pic. Love these guys.
Then we topped off the week with record attendance (for the year they've been in the theater, and certainly in the six months we've been here) Sunday morning. And I am going to brag on my man for a second ('cause he would not do that for himself) and say he was on fi-yah when he was getting his preach way on speaking. Yep, good week in the life.
Now we have this week to look forward to. Our activity church wise has slown down, but it's being replaced with a HUGE to-do list to get our house ready to have a big Thanksgiving, get ready to have family here, and finally to go out of town. More on that very exciting last part later. So although I'm a little stressed out in all the prep work part of it, I'm super excited for this week. And the next. I won't share many more details about this week- I'll save it for more posts. It makes me happy when there's too many wonderful things to share in one post because of the danger of awesomeness overload.
But alas, I must go because the huge list I mentioned earlier is digging itself into my head like a bad, out of tune, broken record- thus making it impossible to have many free moments without feeling really guilty about it. That's where that darn achiever theme (Strengths Finder survey) becomes the blessing and the curse! Enjoy your night/day (whatever time it is when you read this), my friends. Peace out from the Pate house.
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