Besides writing my essay's I have really enjoyed much of the process of putting this new community together. Like anyone starting something new, I had a picture in my mind of what it would look like. It was not very specific, but it was there. Well, over the past few weeks as I have met with some people I feel like my vision has gone from gray and one dimensional to vibrantly colored and multi dimensional. It is so cool, I desire community so I was going to make that happen where I go. I am learning that community is a HUGE need for homeschoolers and I have even come across a few people who were on the fence about CC and when I mentioned my vision about community decided it was for them. The super cool thing about this is, community is who I am. I am a gatherer of people. I love to plan and organize. I love to see people with common interests and convictions come together and "do life" together. Sometimes I even like to sit on the sidelines and watch it happen ... but I need it too, so I wont stay there :)
Back to my vision, it was to meet for CC, have lunch and field trips. Well, as I am talking to others, I am being encouraged to allow myself to really go for what I desire. I want mom's nights out. Instead of being isolated in our CC classes I want to find ways to build relationships and community even in our learning time, and I am finding fun ways to do that! So this was the second revision of my vision and I was pretty excited about it.
Well, if one thing is true it is that I should not underestimate the Lord and HIS visions! Yesterday I went to visit a site to possibly hold our CC classes. Let me interrupt myself here to say that typically a new director would call tons of churches looking for the right fit. I did not do that. I made two initial calls, and honestly did not even pursue them that much. This is not for a lack of feeling like I should do more. It is just every time I wanted to start researching church buildings I felt the Lord tell me to "rest" in him. If these two did not work then he would lead me to more to call. So I did that, I rested ... for over a month! Back to yesterday, I visited the building that looks the most likely and "omgoodness, omgoodness, omgoodness!!!" This place is AMAZING!! It has more than enough rooms for us to have a full campus, a huge nursery, beautiful playground and big spaces for our assembly time. That seems great, right? After all we are supposed to be using the classical model just using a "stick in the sand". So, as Pastor Bill ended the tour of the facility he casually said "Since you are a homeschool group [not sure what that has to do with anything] you can use our pinball arcade, ice rink and batting cages". WHAT LORD!! BATTING CAGES ... ICE RINK ... PINBALL MACHINES, all right there on the campus??? This is crazy! Oh, did I mention their indoor jumpy house room? Whew! Talk about building community!
I don't know what else to say. I am up in the middle of the night because I can not stop thinking about how crazy this is. It is not a sure thing yet, Thursday morning their elders meet and will give us the final answer. Either way, this entire experience has been so refreshing to me. I don't know if I would ever attend a church with an ice rink, but this has opened my eyes to see how big my God is, and when he has a plan he can exceed any expectations, hopes, dreams or visions. I should know this, he has done it in so many areas of my life, it is just a nice reminder :).
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