Out of the Vortex

Yesterday was just a GREAT day for ministry. We had a BBQ at our neighbors house, with friends, neighbors, church family and others as well. It was such a cool thing to see my friend BC baptize a friend of a friend in the backyard pool during the Memorial Day celebrations.

It was good to "catch up" and spend time with friends I see a lot at church but don't ever take 5 hours to just hang out with. And then afterwards we were able to have some more friends over to our place to FINALLY get our families to connect. It was just a perfect day (exhausting - but good!) Maybe a bit of a foretast of what Family Camp will be like this coming weekend. I think we all could use a break to pause, reflect and relax.

Johnny's been reading this great book by Marva Dawn and we've been talking about it a lot lately. Christ transforming culture is a difficult thing when sometime you just want to withdraw completely from all the fuss and hype and whirlwind of this life to quieter, slower times.

The trick is finding God in the chaos and snatching moments of silence to truely listen in such a crazy world. Our lives are committed to helping transform the culture for Christ - but it is an unending challenge for our growing family.

Pressing on....