Lamp Lit Learnings

Today is a big day for us.  In about an hour we will drive two hours away to meet with the elders and a few members from a possible sponsoring or partnering church.  It's big for two reasons. Relationship .  I believe that in Church planting you must have a relationship with an older established church for balance.  Since the relationship with our current church did not evolve into our partnering church it is very important to me that we connect with another established church that we already know some of the members.  We have that kind of relationship with this church.  They are AMAZING people and they are fired up and ready for planting churches.  They know that the church that plants will be encouraged and changed as much as the lives of those reached by the planters.  I pray that God has been organizing this relationship for years and we are about to see it come to a beautiful depth in the next few years. Security .  There's no doubt ...

November 1st, 2012 It's a day that will be remembered in my mind for the rest of my life.  It's the day that my husband looked across the table on our date night and asked me, "Are you ready?" Thinking he meant to order I answered a simple "Yes."  His response?   "Okay, then let's go plant a Church." And so, here we go.  After years of praying, lots of heart breaking conversations, more than a few tears, and months of pent up excitement we are ready to put our feet to the fire and charge down this road of church planting full steam ahead!  The people of San Jose are waiting, lost souls longing for something that they don't know will fill their hunger.  That God would choose to use us in this way is humbling!