Noticing

This was service weekend around our church. Many of us painted a house on Saturday, others delivered updated church directories to homebound members on Sunday, and still others spread out to sing at 3 care facilities in town Sunday afternoon. What a weekend! A great weekend! Weekends like this happen too seldom for churches. They are events we have to work in the schedule. But, when they do occur we always walk away feeling good, talking about the event, and someone invariably says “we should do that more often.” True!

This has been an incredible summer, all summer, for the Westhill family. The sag of summer seems to have passed us by so far. Families coming. Families looking. And hopefully families finding. And what they find I trust is a church striving to live out a Christian faith which is real, filled with grace, hopeful, providing a place for families and individuals to thrive spiritually, and for those in need to receive a fresh start. This has been an incredible summer. Record hot temperatures while a topic of conversation, has slowed down little, actually nothing.

As we look toward the fall plans are under way to strengthen and expand our children’s ministry, build-up other ministries, and I find myself working through the fall with messages to be preached. In all our planning and in all out events we are inspired by what we are taking the time to notice – God is at work! We have been called to witness the shaking of Divine presence waking us to the reality God is moving and transforming lives. And in response we stand and applaud. God is worthy of applause! And it is natural for us to applause! So put your hands together and let the gentle roar echo upwards.