West Cocoa Chat

Bible Camp has yielded many blessings in the past. It seems for us this year, the blessings have been in the form of what I’ll call “anchor points.” We had several families at our church send their kids to Camp for the very first time. They came back from Camp with a new identity in our church. You can’t go to Camp for a week, spend a week in a cabin, play with others from church for a week, and worship with fellow camp members and not end up with some kind of identity or as I’m call it, an anchor point.

These kids came back to their parents with a new appreciation (I hope) for those at our church who worked at camp. Those of us who worked at camp came back with a new appreciation of these kids and their parents. This past Sunday was full of smiling faces and stories on the part of parents and campers alike. You can’t help but smile when you become family.

Another exciting thing happening at our church is an apparent moving of God, fulfilling some needs we’ve been praying about for the last few months. To protect the names of the “innocent” I can’t reveal any specifics but suffice it to say that some important ministries at our church are about to be filled by some who have the talent to do so. Now, you might say that isn’t a “movement of God” but rather something a good “H.R” (Human Resources) person could fulfill. In these cases and for me, the apparent moving of God is the fact that some of these folks are hurting and they themselves need healing. So in having some of their needs fulfilled they themselves are being used by God to help our and now their church family.

During our meeting tonight a call came in to one of my fellow, you know Randy, “E-word guys.” She asked her husband to put his phone on speaker and for all of us to listen. The next thing we heard was a group of young people (Steven included) singing “Heart of Worship” as one of them strummed a guitar. Ever since our attempted merger with a local Christian Church it has always been a dream for us to be able to have both an acapella and instrumental service. We’re hoping to perhaps use these young people in our new “first service” as we continue to renovate our auditorium.

It is exciting to possibly be able to honor our acapella heritage which by the way, with our Praise Team we do (in my opinion) quite well but at the same time be able to open a new door to those who are engaged by instrumental worship. I’ll let you know how it goes. It probably won’t happen for a couple of weeks as most of the group will be heading out (along with yours truly) to New Orleans this coming Sunday.

// posted by cwinwc @ 7:20 PM