The Church

Someone asked me the other day: "what kind of staff do you work with?" Smile. We have no staff.
;)
The church is blessed to have a building!

We have a Deacon Board of five people who handle the finance, meeting minutes, church calendar, flowers, communion, collecting the offering, etc.
All the rest of us are getting the work done.Hospital visits, communion for the home-bound, the tiny ad in the local paper about our service times, and tea after the service. We are blessed to see that the people who come, do participate in ministry.

Its different here.

Each day I find myself meeting with someone who doesn't exactly know Jesus. We are ministering to a post-Christian nation who still calls themselves Christian. I am reminded "Thou shall not take the Lord's name in vain"

It is idyllic on one hand and very dark on the other.
The Freemason lodge sits on the headwaters of the village.
There are more pubs than churches.
Kids do not know what happens in churches.
We are planting a church within an older, out of touch church
with the help of some folks here that get it.

At the end of the day it is the Lord's work.
It is pretty cool to be living within a miracle.