I haven’t said a lot here; more on Twitter… we have had to change churches. Our new pastor understands why.
| Important: see the 5/11/09 addition at the end of this post! |
So – WOWOWOWOWOWOW is all I can really say. 
I think we found a new church right off the bat.
Plan A had been to try out half a dozen or so different churches and see where we “fit”. We’d even decided on the one I found Saturday with the Really Great Website 
(and we heard later in the day that they’re a really great church but probably not what we were hoping for)
I woke up like a shot a few min before the alarm went off, because God told me, “Kathi, today is a new day.”
So at 8:30 or so yesterday morning, our old friend Tommy called us. We went to Calvary together, and after left, they did too for different reasons. Tommy had told us about their new church before and we thought it sounded great – but it wasn’t the right time to even visit. Well, we shifted gears and drove to High Point yesterday morning. Even tho it’s a couple towns away, it’s still under 15 minutes to get there.
The church is in a storefront building in The Worst part of town. Intentionally. Because they like to minister to street people. However, once you walk in the front door, it’s drop-dead gorgeous. God’s gifted Pastor Debbie and some of the women with the ability to transform with paint and accessories – WOW. I should’ve made pictures; I will next week – it’s that pretty!
As we walked across the parking lot, Ken commented that he felt really good about the place. I did too! I looked up and the name of the church is “New Day” (which is what God woke me up with yesterday morning! 
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So, breakfast first – coffee and snackies – and meet & greet. We knew some of the people from Calvary and had met others at Tommy’s birthday party last summer. Many of us have a love of prophecy and revival in common. 
So, church starts and we’re warned two things by new friends – #1, people tend to get VERY active (flags, tambourines, dancing, somersaults, and falling down…often with no catcher and no injury ) and #2, nobody’s in a hurry.
That translated to about 2 and a half hours of worship! During which I got to dance, and I got to be on my face before God, and I got to dance again in a group – something I’ve never done and the ladies just welcomed me into! – and I got two extremely accurate words of knowlege given to me – one by the worship leader and one by someone on the prophetic team. Neither had ever seen me before… and I mean extremely accurate. And Pastor Mike spoke at length about people having dug wells in various places in the past and those wells came up dry, and it was necessary to dig again, not to give up… Ken and I were both crying…
There was, for some reason we never learned, a Messianic Jewish group there – three men and a woman. Pastor Mike called them up to the front and they prayed and prophesied over them, and then one of the men sang prophetically… O WOW. That was the sort of thing like hearing a shofar – everyone stops silent and then cheers!
The message, when we got to it (no one was in a hurry!) was very good. Pastor’s been preaching about the anointing, what it is, the concept of a transferable anointing and what it is (and isn’t)… it was meaty stuff.
After the service ended, we were offered private prophetic ministry. I’ve never done anything like that before so I had NO idea what to expect. People desiring this ministry were brought to small rooms on either side of the sanctuary. We were brought in one by one, with a team of 3 people, who prayed, and then offered prophecy, and then prayed a blessing. The prophecy given by each in turn was spot-on and things that couldn’t be guessed. VERY cool. I’ve never seen it done like that before.
Afterwards we hung out a while and caught up with some old friends, and the lady who’d invited me to dance came and hugged my neck and invited me to be on the dance team! Me! With three left feet and a very ungraceful body! I’m SO excited!
Ken got to sit with Pastor Mike for a while and he shared “The Short Version” of how we ended up at his church. He was astonished that anyone would be asked to leave a church under the circumstances we were asked to leave under. We like that Pastor Mike and his team are all about raising people up to do the work of the ministry (like the Bible says to do!) So he’s going to call us during the week and touch base with us about it all.
So… I don’t know if we’ve found our new church, but we’re asking God, “Please, please, let us stay…”
| 05/06/09 and 05/11/09 update: I got an email on 5/6 from our former pastor. He has a radically different perspective on the events resulting in our departure. At first, I simply added a disclaimer here stating that – but yesterday the Lord showed me that I really don’t need to do that. God owns my reputation, and He owns our former pastors’ reputations, and He *will* be dealing with all things. Not my place, not my problem; my only obligation in this is to adhere to Matthew 5:44,45. Therefore, I’ve done a bit of editing in this post. |
I became fascinated with nuclear weapons and, in me-typical fashion, I learned everything there was to know about the things. I could speak intelligently on everything from ballistic theory to bomb components to differences between our weapons and the Russians’… and also knew an awful lot about surviving a nuclear war. If the initial blast didn’t wipe me off the face of the earth, I had a plan. (I was just that sort of child) I haven’t really thought about any of that in years. I think God wanted to show me a megadisaster that I could understand so well.
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