Absolutely Amazing

How to describe the roller coaster that we've been on over the last 2 weeks or so?!? Absolutely amazing!! If you are a somewhat faithful reader to this here blog, you might know about our church's Community Day and Egg Hunt that we were putting on April 15. Well that day has now come and gone. And all that's left to be said is, "Wow!!"

First of all, I had been working with a company to send out 10,000 postcards to our community inviting them to worship with us this Easter, as well as to the Community Day. Well, those cards did not go out. Long story and don't care to rehash it here. So we're a bit frustrated at that time. After finally "discussing" with them that I would kindly like my money back, they agreed and we made other plans to announce. Thankfully, we had already placed an ad in the local newspaper. I called and asked them to enlarge it to a full-page ad. Yes, that's right. Full-page. Color.

Amidst all this stress as well as other issues being dealt with (sick kids, etc.), we were praying a whole lot. I had finally turned it over to God and said that if we reached one person, if one family came to this event, it would be worth it. Saturday came and we saw God move in an absolutely amazing way. People came.....and came.....and came.....and came. At the end of the day, we estimate that there were approximately 600-700 people at our event on Saturday. WOW!!!!!! I was able to share the resurrection story with at least 450 of them. How great that was!! We were all totally exhausted, but a good exhausted.

Of course, I had to be back at the school from 6-8:30pm for our praise team practice. Long day. Sunday at church we hit our highest attendance yet......145. This was also with about 20 regulars not there. What a great day!! God is so good.

In all this I have been reminded of the David Crowder Band song that says, "Take my frets. Take my fears. All I have, I'm leaving here. Be all my hopes. Be all my dreams. You're my delight, my everything. I will worship You, Lord. Only You, Lord. I will bow down before You. Only You, Lord."

In all of it He was there saying, "Trust me. I got you covered here, Tim. You let go and let me take control."

Thank you, Lord!!