This has been an incredible week! I apologize to those of you who read my blog regularly for not posting this week--especially given the importance of the week, but it has been a "Wow!" two days. I'll have to say that Monday did NOT start out that way. The ministry staff and I were supposed to take two separate flights to Denver and arrive BEFORE noon Denver time. Three of the group did. Not the three of which I was a part! Our flight was to go from Pittsburgh to Washington to Denver. The flight to Washington was canceled due to weather. We were given another flight which was scheduled to fly from Pittsburgh to Chicago to Denver and still get us there before noon. That flight was canceled because of a mechanical problem with the plane! That meant we weren't able to fly out of Pittsburgh until 3:00 p.m. and we arrived in Denver at 5:00 p.m. So the first day was NOT a WOW!
Yesterday we invested the entire day in developing the Strategic Ministry Plan--SMP for New Life, and God worked big time. While the SMP is not the glamorous part of the process, it will give us a guide for the next decade of ministry in Jesus' name should He tarry!
The biggest WOW! so far, though, has been today. We met with the Harvestime architect, Pat Morgan. I have to say, I've never met an architect like him before. He loves the Lord (he's actually going on a missions trip to Juarez tomorrow), he LISTENED to what we said throughout the day, and made many revisions to the preliminary drawings, and then while we took a two hour break to go and visit Focus on the Family, he drew the rough sketches of the Master Site Plan, the front elevation, and the Phase 1, 2 & 3 building process. While we still have another full day and some time after dinner tonight, I literally can't wait to see what God is going to do with this process when we get home! My prayer is that we will all see the opportunity--the open door--God is laying before us, and step through it that hundreds and eventually thousands of people over the next decades (if Jesus tarries!) will be snatched from death into life!
Sounds like a great vision, Chris!
I'm believing for my church as well that we will develop a vision so sound and compelling that many will buy into it and many will come to know the Lord.
By the way, I live a little over 100 west of Denver, but I'm originally from Pittsburgh.
Posted by: Al | March 05, 2009 at 06:23 PM