i've been home about a week now from vacation. i've been working a lot at old navy and getting myself established into a summer schedule. the trip was awesome! we had a blast staying down there and relaxing for the week. the only thing that really made me think a lot while i was down there is how missionally forgotten tourist areas seem to be. I mean, even myself went down there to vacation rather than to serve. i mean, these people literally served us day and night...who is serving them? shouldn't we be? i kept an eye out for churches but probably only saw 2-3 the whole time (minus university boulevard, assuming that the mexican universities may be somewhat affiliated with Catholicisim). I feel like i've got to many ideas and not enough resources to be proactive in the matter. yet i know we live in one of the most resourceful places on the earth. it's all a little paradoxal if you think about it.
but to keep catching you up on life....
Old navy has been going great. i really enjoy working there, especially doing shipments when you're in the store before it opens and just working away. i was there from 6am-11am today.
Also, i'd highly suggest if you have a little spare time on your hands (about 30 min or so) to take a listen to the sermon from last week at the Tree. This is not about the church, it's about the Church. it's not about us, it's about us all together. i cannot believe that i am able to be a part of a church that is pursuing and seeking out how to live in a way to really be the Church. that's a lot of church talk.
About Me
- Leanne
- Imagine it...a student generation gathered to passionately feel God's face. Kneeling there, faces to the ground, cries rising to heaven. Worship and prayer together wed. Prayers for mercy. Intercession for salvation. Songs of deliverance. Quiet waiting for an outpouring of the Spirit of God on us and on this land. Repentant hearts. Restored souls. God-chasers...God-lovers, broken by His gentle hand, made bold by His Holy Spirit, empowered to gladly spread His fame, proclaim his glory at all costs to people everywhere. Sing the songs. Pray the prayers. Bring your life.
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If you remember, let me know when it's online, I'd like to give it a listen.
Just finished listening to the message. I was pretty encouraged to hear about some of the shifts RiverTree is looking to make. I wish that in their moving forward they would look more to restructuring as house church communities and look toward church planting instead of launching multi-sites, but perhaps that will come. I hope that God gives RiverTree the grace to not move too quickly into something quite new to them and instead gives them the patience to do the hard work of undoing and unleraning all the sort of stuff that got them where they are, but more than that, I hope that you and the rest of the people I love from back there get to experience being a part of something which truly emerges from the heart of God for the world.
Thanks for passing this on.
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