Is it really November?

Oh, it has been so long since I have been blogging. I'm feeling fairly certain I'm the only one worried about it--but I feel like I owe to our process--I'm working on it!

Autumn has happened since I last blogged--Sept, Oct, and now in the middle of Nov--how does it pass so quickly? God has been faithful in this busy season--God is always faithful. Our faith community has gathered for worship, for outreach, for Bible Study that has been just incredible--really, we've been studying the book of Acts--the early church and talking about our church--our lives our journey--it has been good. Our last monthly gathering will happen on the 18th of November, and then we will begin worshiping every Sunday on December 2--the first Sunday of Advent. I am very excited and nervous about this shift, but I feel like and the community too feels like it's time to move forward and to worship on a weekly basis. Please pray for us--please pray for God's will to continue to be lived out faithfully in this church that is becoming--please pray that we continue to be open day by day to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in the life of this faith community.

My days are still full of coffee and milk runs and we have been praising God for cooler weather!!!! Folks have been showing up more and more buying big LATTE coffees--I do thank God for our coffee drinking brothers and sisters--they are great people--great people who show such kindness and support of Gathering Grounds. I invite most of them to church and some have taken my up on it, some are willing to talk with me about it---some are of other faith traditions and some are not interested--all of them (well most all of them) reach out in support in some way and it means so much.

This work--this new church planting work is so different than my past church experience--new in so many ways---for better and worse. Please continue to pray for me---the Lord knows I need it. I pray for you--I do--believe me wherever you are whomever you are--I know I need to grow and love and I'm working on it--everyday--I promise. God is faithful, right--always. There's more to come--lots more. Praise the Lord. S