Retreat

It's been a while since our church plant team has gotten together. These seem to be the months when people are travelling, so we've postponed several meetings on Sundays and now have a request from the elders that we return to Sunday mornings at our mother church until we are sent out to open the doors of the plant in October. Yesterday was a holiday, meaning the best time to try to get the whole team together to go through a load of stuff we have been wanting to talk about for months. One of those things was the acceptance of the elders and the man we were praying for to give pastoral leadership to join the team. This was exciting news for all of us and he and his family joined us at lunch and stayed through the rest of the afternoon to start getting a feel for where we are as a group. We chatted about prospective opening dates- early October, and all the practical work that will need to be done to prepare us for that time- forming worship groups, Sunday school groups, financial groups, etc... There are so many details to starting a church! We also finished up the study Scotty has been leading on the attributes of God. It was a rich time, as it always is, to meditate and talk about God's amazing attributes that cause us to worship Him and understand His ways more and more. My best friend Ally has come for a visit and she was gracious enough to lead the kids time for the whole day, even though she doesn't speak much Spanish- kids have many ways of communicating! We finally feel like there is more of a camaraderie forming between the members of the team and we are excited for all that we have ahead of us in the next couple of months.