Moving Out of Our Comfort Zones!

Again and again, God shows us that when we step out of our comfort zones he will meet us and take us places that we could not go on our own.  But when we stay in the safety of our comfort zones or within the realms of only what we can do or see... we miss out on being part of God's amazing power in our lives.

Our story as a congregation has been filled with illustrations of this reality! 

More recently, in 07, we saw this when our little band of people stepped out in faith and bought our ministry center, then spent about $70,000 to remodel it.

This year, we saw this when we were struggling to meet our budget and I felt led by God to challenge us to raise $5,000 to fill an Ark through Heifer International in response to the part of the Lord's prayer that says, "Give us this day our daily bread" and the recognition that for many in our world this is a prayer of desperation and for the rest of us, it should be a prayer of commitment to share with those who have need.  On Easter Sunday we collected our offering and were about 300 dollars shy of the goal... in less than two weeks time, we had the $5,000 and our offerings in April went up!

At Community of Joy we support a church plant - veritas - in Lancaster Pa- in their recent prayer letter they shared a similar expereince when they stepped out of their comfort zone and God met them abundantly!

Our recent appraisal of our building has me wondering if we should begin looking for ways to step out of our small building and into a bigger place.   And I blogged about this a few weeks ago.  After that blog, someone said to me.... maybe we should consider building on here.  That got me to thinking...  we could easily double our worship space and add a few rooms as well... all we need is an architect and engineer to draw up plans and we can start to see how much that would cost.

Not sure which way we should go, but thinking that the time might be upon us to step out of our comfort zone and meet God in something that we can't yet see.

If you know an architect that would take on a gratis job... please let me know. 

Join me in praying for God's direction as we consider which way to step into God's glorious future!