One year ago, today, I resigned from our work in Pflugerville. Early that morning I passed this field, snapped this picture and heard from the Lord for Wichita Falls. It seems like so much longer ago, but then it doesn't!? How can that be?
We have seen so many advances in that year, but yet, the bulk of our work is still ahead. We spent today doing what the Lord spoke to me about on that morning through this field. The first community day out in the neighborhoods of Wichita Falls. The feeling is beyond expressing: to see the people begin to walk into the park in expectation... and our people knowing what we have to give is so much more than a hot dog or a handshake. I have thoroughly been refreshed by new babes in Christ who are so excited to be free from sin. They aren't looking for a way to do what the flesh wants, they are looking for a way to get out of all the things the flesh has gotten them into!
Oh, the harvest is great! The fields are ripe unto harvest. We have only begun.
The time here seems so long because of all that has happened. It seems so short, because we have barely even gotten started. We are still discipling, mentoring and sowing... and will be until Jesus comes to get us. Why? We are still Mission Ready.
P.S. I am so happy with what God has done in Pflugerville in that year as well! I could not help but be somewhat apprehensive about leaving our new baby church, but Chad and Cassie Harper have done awesome. They are now an autonomous home missions church. The church now has it's own purchased property with a newly remodeled sanctuary and more room to grow. New souls have been added and more are on the way! I have tears in my eyes as I type this because God is so good.
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