Sorry to leave you hanging like I have. We’ve been busy. I started a new job. (Can you say Bi-vocational?) and just been busy preaching and teaching. We’ve got a fairly faithful small group attending out house for the 11:00 Sunday time of fellowship and worship. Including my family, we’ve had 15 people, and hope to have another 4 or 5 first time visitors this week. It’s been a long journey in many respects and we have a long way to go, but most people won’t come to a “church meeting” in your house unless they know you fairly well to begin with.
So here are a few pics from my “Resurrection Bread” both while it’s rising and after it’s baked, and the following Resurrection Sunday worship. My 4th Grade daughter, who just started the violin this year, played “Amazing Grace” for us. You’ll see the Easter Sunday my “pulpit” is an old piece of furniture we had laying around. You’ll also notice that one of the gentleman (Ray) who attends and is in a wheel chair. He lost his legs in an accident helping someone who was broken down back in ’81. The next Saturday, I built the wheel chair ramp and the pulpit. Both have worked wonderfully and we feel blessed.
This week, Ray and Bonnie (his wife) brought their granddaughter Amanda with them. Praise God, she heard a gospel message! Still have the broken down old computer and dial up so it’s been harder to write and with the spring hitting us hard and fast, we are trying to get our garden ready.
Funny, but our garden is an outreach too… we are planting seedlings for neighbors (they don’t all know it) but my experience in the past is that people always decide too late that they want to have a garden for the year… and then can’t find the seedlings they want or need.
So from out here… that’s an update.
Posted by Mike Rowell on May 11, 2009 at 6:39 am
Awesome!
Great to see and read about what God’s using you to do. Keep it going!
Bivocational pastors of the world unite!
If only I had the time…