🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

As a child, I learned the stories of God on Sunday school flannelboards and the Word of God through songs. In high school, I was enveloped in a community of Godly families and a Methodist church youth group that showed me what God looks like. I went on mission trips, was introduced to Christian music, and learned to hear God's voice on a youth trip.

I'm compelled to reach out to those who sowed seeds in me that are now sprouting on foreign soil. Who could have known those first mission trips of sleeping in another church's fellowship hall and doing odd-jobs for community members would culminate as a lifetime of foreign missions?

I spoke to the pastor of my hometown Methodist church this week. He's known me since I was born. I just had to tell him, "I think God is on the cusp of doing something really incredible in Cape Town, and you are as much a part of it as I am." There's a bone-deep conviction in me to make sure they know, that YOU know. A new church in Cape Town is not a solo mission. It's an overflow. It's a sprouting of families who invited me to church, saved a space for me at their tables, let me go to them when there was nowhere to go. It's years of people showing up for me and for each other. That's Church. They are why Church is in me so deeply.

Even though I haven't been to that old church building in almost 16 years, there was no time lost between us. That's how the Kingdom works. It's not about timelines we understand. God is not slow. He is not un-hearing. He is not out of resources.

Times have changed. The Creator of heaven and earth has not, and He will not. Let's worship Him with all we've got.

Listen to "How Great is the Greatness of God" by Boswell, Fowler and Papa.