God is Big

So a little bit of background. We have this family in our church, all involved in our music team and very talented, non more so that the middle child (not quite a child now, hes like 16 or something). We will call him B, so B is very talented guitarist and used to play in our youth band and the church band. long story short, a few things lead to B disconnecting from church life about a year or so ago, although he still calls in occasionally he is lost in some pretty dodgy stuff at this point. So we have a new(ish) leader in our team who after B called into church one day really felt called to pray and interceed for B regularly so he did.(even though he had only breifly met him)
A couple of weeks go by and that particular leader is driving and stops to pick up a guy who was hitchhiking, and the guy turns out to be B. Odds of that in a city of 1.4 million, not like they both live near each other or anything because they dont. Totally Gods divine appointment. God is amazing.

movin to the country...gonna eat me alot of peaches

i dunno if they were an Australian band- they were called the presidents of the USA or something like that but they sang this song
wait let me see if i can find a clip...
PEACHES
there you go. So this song has been in my head for like the last 2 months.
So this is how my life took a dramatically different course, leading me to be unable to get this song out of my head. 5 years ago i married i man...a tradesman with a pastoral gift and leadership abilities. We served in the youth group and we ran the youth group. We became the youth pastors and I figured we would pastor eventually, full time. Maybe he would pastor a church and I would use my social science degree and social work experience to set up a ministry for the down and out, maybe teenage mums, maybe drug rehab clients maybe all of the above... this was my plan.
Well since we got married anyway. My original plan was to serve with the leadership of my old church in a paid ministry role, but then we got married and he didn't feel right about moving to my church...in hindsight I see that That was my comfort zone, not Gods plan, but i left my friends and spiritual family and everything i was aspiring to then, and well 5 years later it is like de ja vu(figuratively speaking, coz I don't really believe in that kind of thing).
I have a job and a plan and dreams, and i really don't see how any of it fits with where we seem to be heading now. I am discovering what really is meant by walking by faith. I have a peace about all the decisions we have made leading up to this point. Now we need to decide where we are going in just 12 weeks time.

When D signed up we(I) was convinced we would do country posting MUCH furthur down the track and D would work local to our church, my work,family, friends, our lives. Then came the nearly perfect compromise, a country posting just 45 minutes from where we live now. i could still be involved in ministry and wouldn't have to work because of the country pay perks. Then that did not work out as they are not going to take on a Probationary officer. Now i cant seem to backtrack with D and country seems to be the only thing being considered...hence...this song.

I am quite emotionally attached to my church, my ministry and youth group. It is such an exciting time and I am finally finding the time to connect with new leaders, i know that leaving is going to be devastating for me...again. All the reasons i have to stay though are my own selfish ones. I don't feel like we are meant to stay, in fact i think God has been very deliberate about moving us out at a time when others will HAVE to step up and out of their comfort zones. I just doesn't seem to make it any easier though...
I will part II this post later with my thought about where we are going.

End of term

We are coming to the end of this term of Pyro ( our youth group). This term has seen our group that used to be all of about 20 on a big night, (and by used to I mean last term) hit the 50 and beyond point. - (sidenote my constable conradt/pastor Duncan in the forground there)


I am so not about numbers as such but if those numbers reflect more young people hearing the word of God, and having good time growing in thier relationship with him, then bring on the bigger numbers! A big part of the growth has been kids that have never even ben to church before, from our churches alternative education program, the highschool we serve in and our youth bringing frends from school etc.

I blog alot about family and work, possibly because my friday to sunday are pretty much consumed by ministry time so I dont blog on those days, and the other days are more work and family days, when I do get a chance to blog.

Well just wanted to put in some pics from the other side of life, coz really its what it is all about, life I mean. Serving in the house of God gives everything else so much more meaning, also I am just so excited about what God is doing.

These are from 2 weeks ago, we had a "hot winters night" theme which was a hit an I managed to remember to take some photos...

mmmm hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows

not me monday- a biggy

So just a few little things....i need to (not) confess... this past few weeks have been a little crazy and seeing as i am great at time management and boundaries and all those things, this blog due to said event either.
matter of fact i would not have made bill payments a little late because i didnt have time to bpay them, nor would i have left my husband without clean underwear on one occasion and no clean socks on two, and well i would never have forgotten my daughters ballet class two weeks in a row. NOT ME!

While i am at it, i would not ever, while trying to wisely manage our finances and save for the tough times coming while D trains to be a police officer, have allowed him to buy me a ludicrously expensive gown for said event seeing as i would not be silly enough to even consider hosting it!

I did not book the hall and caterers and then leave all other arrangements to the last minute, nor did i neglect to find out from hall management where the restroom light switches where, therefore having to convince our much obliging guests that peeing in the candlelight was part of the ambiance of the event.





I wasn't late to open up the hall for the DJ leaving him a little stressed out in the final minutes before doors opened and i did NOT take the largest slice of chocolate cake from the dessert buffet before anyone else got one!
i wasn't late for my work meeting this morning due to the hire trees being picked up and i did not return table cloths to the company with table litter still wrapped up in them!