The next step...

I am glad to have my wife back home! We missed her in the weekend services, but were so glad that she could be a part of Uncle C.W.'s 70th birthday party in California. Our service was really good and enjoyed the spirit of victory! We had two first time guests and 44 in service.

I have been sitting here putting pictures together for a photo montage that we will use in our Anniversary Service this Friday night. Bro. David Bernard will be speaking and we are looking forward to it. It is so amazing to see where New Life has come since a year ago. God has truly brought some great people into our life and many of them in just the last 6 months! It is almost like they have been with us forever.

I think the most daunting weight in my mind at all times is THE NEXT STEP. What are we supposed to do next? There is not a moment to spare in complacency! When a church is being raised from the ground, it is constantly in a state of change. I like that. It is also a weight. What is the most important thing to do next? What will take us to the next level? What ministry is important right now and what can wait?

Our church members are praying individually right now to be directed to the ministry God wants to use them in. We are in need of a nursery now. (A couple Sundays ago, two children wandered the aisles during service! Their parents unsure of what to do with them.) That is a great problem because that shows that there are new families! It also creates a dilemma. We only have one room to share for Sunday School and a Nursery!?! I just learned this weekend that one of the ladies who moved in from Nebraska was over the Nursery in her church and knows how to organize it....looks like an answer to prayer.

What about our youth class that is around 12-15 students who have been meeting in the foyer? Where are we going to grow with them? We are praying for God's will in bringing in a Student Ministry couple. We are in need of an ushering staff for visitors who come in late and to also wait upon another section of chairs. We have one gentleman who handles it now.

Our land deal seems to keep slipping a little further ahead. It is right at the tip of our grasp and then... Just about all the land in Pflugerville is $4-5 a square foot, even on the backside of nowhere! Land has to be a next step, so I believe that God is working even now.

All of this is a weight, but it is also a thrill just knowing that God will take care of it! We will celebrate Friday night our first year anniversary and the series of "next steps" still to come.

Let's see, what do I do next?