Tuesday, October 10, 2006

God Answers Prayer

Anyone else been experiencing this lately? Have any cool stories? If you do, let me know, I want to hear about it!
A while ago I found this pretty cool church that I have been debating about attending more often or not. The reason I said debating is because the church seemed a little over the top at first, for me anyways. I have always gone to conservative CRC churches, and this one well isnt. But its good. Its a CRC church plant, called New Hope, and it meets in a commmunity center gym. Its pretty upbeat, and very visual. THe pastor preaches on real-world, current events topics. One such Sunday there was a new childrens hospital opening, so he talked about finding God in hard situations, and showed clips from the TV show House as examples. Its pretty cool.
Another reason why I have been debating is because the people arent terribly friendly, at first anyways. The first 2 times I was there, no one said a word to me, only 1 girl because the toaster was broken(they have bagels:)). Anyways this Sunday I was there early, and so I was in the washroom, and I asked God that he would let me make some friends today, so I would know if I am supposed to be a part of this church or not. Well I was browsing around the information booth, and the lady working there started talking to me, and I told hee there wasnt a whole lot of college-age kids around. So she ended up intoducing me to 2 sisters (Josiah and Sancha- crazy names, I know), who I talked to and sat with in the service. After the service, I met some of their friends, and the one friend, Sarah, invited me over for Thanksgiving Dinner! So I went to her house for the day(along with 3 exchange students they had over, another guy, Jon, and of course her family), and basically sat around, ate, and played games all day! Then we went to another church at night were she was playing piano for worship, and ended talking to other people around our table and sharing times such as our most vivid memory of God, and when he felt closest to us. Good stories I had, but I wont share them now, this is gonna be too long already.
I was also talking to her friend Jon, and he mentioned something about the past, and basically said the past is great, there is no reason to forget it, but dont dwell on it. Well that is something I have been doing for a while now, and I realized I needed to stop. I loved my time at Dordt, and I miss all my friends there terribly, but I also need to look ahead and get excited about the future! Who knows what God has in store for me?
Also I got transfered to another camera store(same company), but this one in another mall, and apparently it is busier to I can sell more and have better hours, which will be nice.
Dont forget to tell me your stories, and share whats going on in your life! Jon Schmidt this means you! I havent talked to you in AGES!
Mark

No comments: