Teaching and Building

We are living in a bit of an intense season right now, which is one of the reasons I am so surprised that the Lord gave me the sweet opportunity to teach at our women's Bible study this week.  The teaching schedule was planned out long ago, and the added pressures we have been living with only made the study and teaching more meaningful to me personally.

I taught on busyness.  We are doing a 5-week series called Get Real, in response to what the women of our church said keeps them from contentment.  I've never taught on such a large scale, but felt very sure about what the Lord gave me to say.  And to hear that the Lord is using it in the lives of those who were there has been pure redemption.  I've shared many tears in conversation with our women since then.  Truly I am deeply humbled and thankful.

Here is the link if you want to listen...moms of young children will certainly relate to lots that I talk about.

Speaking of our church, Shane has had the added pressure and fun of helping plan the youth space in our new building!  We are so excited for 11.11.12 when we have the grand opening!

I love these pictures of our kids at the building this past summer.  They just look like little ministry kids playing in the rocks outside the unfinished building!  And someday we'll get to tell them their names are written under the flooring in the doorways to the rooms where they belong right now (infants, 2 year olds, 4 year olds).  Praying God uses us and our church to build a strong spiritual foundation in their lives...