What a Productive day at Church!!

This weekend has been quite nice. Just family time, relaxing, sleeping, playing, movies, the whole nine yards. LOVE weekends like this!! YIPPEE!!

Oh and I am finally out of my scrapbooking slump!! YIPPEE!! I finished a page tonight. Goodness, I felt like it had been forever since I scrapped. Now that I am over my creative slump, I have to get caught up. I am sooooo behind.

Anyway, The question we were left with at church today was "What are your vision and dreams for The Rock?" Wow, that is so hard to put into words. But I am going to try here in a few seconds. Let me just say this. I am so excited about what God is doing and will be doing with our church and with the people who are willing to serve Him no matter what. I have to say that I look forward to going to church and seeing the people but most of all worshiping with them. I don't dread church anymore. There is no drama, no back stabbing, no gossiping, no back biting. Just a lot of love, care and support. We have made so many great decisions about how we feel the Lord wants our church to be. I have to say it has been quite interesting being on the ground floor for a new work. You never know how much work goes into it until you have been there and helped do that work! This week is looking to be quite uneventful. I really hope I didn't just jinx us there!

Okay, here is my vision and dreams for our church!

I dream of seeing a church that accepts all hurting, lost, and broken people. I dream of seeing those hurt, lost and broken people find refuge in the Lord Jesus Christ and become repaired and restored by the love of the Lord. I dream of a place that believers can come together to support and encourage each other in our daily walks with the Lord. I dream of a place where when fellow believers fall; they are picked up and encouraged in their walk with the Lord. I dream of place where children come excited to learn about God and learn the truths of the Lord in creative and exciting ways. I dream of a place that our teens will love to be with their friends. A place that is accepting of them, their trials, and know that they are loved unconditionally. A safe place for them to talk about things that our teens deal with in this day and age and know that they will get Godly advice and love. I dream of a place that supports the family. That gives them the tools to succeed as husband and wife and then as fathers and mothers. I dream of marriage retreats and seperate Women's and Men's retreats where we are refreshed, encouraged, and admonished to work harder and better at our marriages and our family! I dream of a church that has amazing Men's Ministries that encourages men to be the head of their household (physically and spiritually) and encourages them to be great Dads and hold each other accountable in all aspects of life. I dream of a wonderful Women's ministry that encourages all women in their daily walk with the Lord. A ministry that encourages them to be the best wife and mother that God has called us to be. I dream of a single Mom's ministry that encourages these amazing women in their daily lives and in their spiritual lives. I dream of an amazing Titus 2 ministry where the Older women teach the younger women. I dream of a ministry for the couples who have suffered a divorce and a place for the children of divorce to heal as only God can do. I dream of a Mission's ministry that sends missionaries out from our church to foreign and domestic lands. I dream of a church that is constantly discipling new believers and everyone is growing and maturing in their faith. I dream of many lives being touched, many lost being saved, and many Christians encouraged in their walks. I dream of a Church that is reaching out in our community to help those who are less fortunate. I dream of a church that is constantly growing, encouraging, loving and worshiping the one and only God.

To me these are dreams but to God all those things are POSSIBLE!!! I am doing Beth Moore's Believing God bible study right now and it is amazing to see how much this study corellates with things going on in my life right now. SOoo... here goes....deep breath!!!

1) God is who He says He is!
2) God can do what He says He can do.
3) I am who God says I am.
4) I can do all things through Christ
5) God's Word is alive and Active in me!

I choose to Believe all those things above and I choose to believe that my dreams for The Rock Baptist Church will be surpassed. Because in Christ, all things are possible! I BELIEVE IN GOD!

Oh and I bet I won't be the only one with tears pouring down my face to see these dreams come to fruition!