It seems like just when we have it figured out here at SFC things change and we have to adapt. I believe this is one of the great lessons of new church starts, being able to adapt and move as the spirit calls. We are able to be responsive to the lives of our community and to be able to adjust our programming and ways of doing things to meet people where they are.
The thing is life changes. What worked for one family last year doesn’t work with new schedules and transportation issues this year. As the children grow developmentally the programming we’ve been offering might not work. A Sunday School teacher might decide it’s time to retire, or the circumstances of life might mean they can’t commit to a specific Sunday anymore. As we prayerfully reflect on what we’ve been doing we come to see that it’s not what God is calling us to at the moment. As we try new things we discover that they meet an unspoken need in us and we let go of the former ways of being.
This fall we had grand plans to do what we did last spring in offering children’s programing with dinner. Now instead we will be hiring a young man to hang out and play with the kids during that time. He did that role a few years ago and was fabulous, but then some of our number felt a call to teach Sunday School on Sunday nights so we made a change.
Everything we do is borne of trying to be present to people in this moment and help them to experience God in Christ more fully. We experiment, we learn, we adjust, and we are better and more faithful for it. I hope that no matter what happens here at SFC we never lose that sense of being willing to change and follow God’s spirit as it blows through us.
-Eilidh
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