New Year, New Beginnings
Posted in Updates on 12/31/2008 01:27 am by thinkingriddlesWe are very excited that our third core team member, Joel has arrived here with us. If the past four month has been a time of settling and developing vision, the coming year promises to be a time of foundations. I believe that each person who joins the team has to wrestle through a process not only to decide to come, but to actually get established here. Once established each person is “like a tree firmly planted by streams of water” (Psalm 1:3)
We believe a major part of what we are supposed to be doing is to “open doors” for others. We are supposed to provide opportunity for those who are in situations from which they do not see an easy way out. This means people who are looking for doors to ministry, people in recovery and looking for a door to wholeness, people who are not happy in the world, and want a way out.
Brad and I have wrestled through the structures and dynamics that will make this a reality and not a theory, and we are still learning. In some ways it feels like God is having to literally reprogram natural ways of thinking into God-ways of thinking, much in the same way He has to do with faith versus works. Building life giving structures is not natural… it’s supernatural!
We’re very excited to be bringing the first participant of our 3/4 house program in at the end of the month. As we walk, God goes ahead of us lighting the path.