What's ahead in the coming year!

Can I summarize the things that we as a board are sensing God is calling us to for the coming year  (a most awkward sentence — but you get the idea)?

Our year’s motto?  “The year of the impossible”  

For each of us around the table Saturday, this past year has been one where God has been molding us.  Our lives need more than we can possibly do for ourselves.  We were once again impressed to realize that a full life is truly impossible — without God!!  But with God, this can be the year of the impossible!  A year where we step out and expect God to be there, where God will do above and beyond what we can ask or even think, or even dream.

Faith in action is risky. 

One of the areas we need to attack this year is understanding the needs of people in order to reach out to them with the love of Jesus.  We need to look around us and understand where people are at.  That means by April of next year we would like to do some “surveying” to be sure we are on the same page — on the same page as our neighbours, our friends, community people and work place acquaintances.  We need to understand our own stories so that we can speak to people about how God has touched our lives in ways that will relate to their own situations. 

We need to speak to them of the hope they can find in God through Jesus. 

We need to be in such a place that our actions of love will create a buzz of talk about God. 

We need to be In such a place that as people see what God is doing — the things that can only be “God things” — they will be pushing in to see what God can do for them.

An impossible order!

So be it.  Let’s see it!!