Hi everyone...Most of you know that I spent the week in Green Lake Wisconsin. It was really a good week for my heart and energy for the Kingdom of God. On the way up there, I had the pleasure of running into my old friend Jeff Mayfield at a Culvers... so funny and totally a God-moment. We only got lost once which was good. What a beautiful setting Green Lake is, even though it rained all week. The only thing that would've made it better would've been if my wife would have had time to make it (but she got really sick while I was gone, so it was good for her to be home). I really appreciated the times of worship, prophecy and teaching. It was good to get a "crash-course" on introductions to the Champaign Vineyard and Danville Vineyard staffs as well. There are quite a few of them that I can already see being "life-long" friends and partners in this journey.
I came into the week with passions to pursue God's heart on exactly where Corrie and I might plant and pressing in on all kinds of details surrounding that intention. As I prayed, had some time to really reflect (like a 5 hour car ride home) and have spoken some with my wife, those things are still there but a whole lot less important right now to my heart. For instance, we are till interested in the Bloomington-Normal area, but are really free to go wherever the Holy Spirit may lead us. Also, we are leaning more towards planting than a multi-site campus.
These are the things that I really felt God speaking into my heart the longer I encountered His presence this week & the more I listened to the conversations around me:
(A) I am a guy that really embraces his evangelistic calling & is ready to exercise that gift as fully as possible during my time in Champaign...so I'd better be ready as soon as I get back to Illinois.
(B) the Father has called us back to Champaign not just to plant, but to be NEEDED servants during our time there, so we need to be patient with the planting/the plant process and serve our butt off while the Spirit's got us at the Champaign Vineyard.
(C) The Spirit has plans for me to be an agent of healing/understanding to pastors/leaders from other denominations who are seeking out service within the Vineyard.
(D) when we do start with the plant process, it won't just be one church but probably many that God will use us to be influential in.
I know this was short, but I'm still in the reflection phase. Thank you everyone for your prayers for travel. Please, keep praying for Corrie's recovery and for our efforts in the Kingdom here. Love you,
adam
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