On Oct. 2 there was a street festival on West Marshall st. It was an amazing experience. The people and all that stuff. What I enjoyed the most was walking down from church with 7 people from church! Not only that, we hung out for a while and then had lunch at a place that already had Russ, Becky and their children taking up two tables!
I've been talking a lot about us walking down the street. So, when I saw 15 people related to Calvary eating in, and interacting with the people in one of the restaurants down the street I was very proud. What I did not expect was that the one reason I was most happy about was not the fact that we were all "taking up space" on West Marshall. It was the fact that I was spending time with Calvary people with no agenda other than being together. Since that day I've been thinking about how much I was fed by that time.
I'm writing this on Sunday night right after coming home from yet another empowered task force meeting. What was different about this night was that we refocused and changed our process. I haven't left one of these meetings as hopeful and fulfilled as I did today. Up to this point we had been greatly stressed and worried by the process in addition to the issues that precipitated our undertaking it. I trust we will now be able to come back to our reason for the work we're putting in, the church.
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