God's Will: The First Weeks
This started out as a daunting task and a crazy leap of faith. Since then, God has given blessing after blessing, and many awesome answers to prayer. So here we were, in this age-old building with a congregation with 1 or 2 people in their 50's and the rest of them upward of 60's, 70's, 80's...we even have a woman that is now 103 years old! She comes almost every Sunday, bless her heart! I decided to weather "big church" with my kids that first Sunday, armed with activity bags. I put coloring books, crayons, markers and marker boards and some little characters in each bag, thinking it would occupy them for an hour. My girls did fine, but my boy wanted nothing to do with sitting still and being quiet, thank you. I brought lollipops, but that didn't last too long. Only 10 minutes or so into the service, my 3-year-old was army-crawling under the pews. I was mortified. Here we were, trying to make a good first impression, and he was bein...