Here is something I wrote back in November, 2014, on a Monday.
A bit of a draining night at Grace Point last night. Some of the kids showed up, and weren’t cooperating, and we were trying to kick them out, but they actually started physically beating on one of the women in our church. Eventually, their mom came and took them home.
Then a little later a man started having severe chest pains, and we called an ambulance. We all came around him and prayed for him, before he went to the hospital (this was in the middle of speaking time).
One of the other men in our church started crying because it reminded him of when he had a stroke.
Another woman really opened up and told the whole church that when her husband passed away, she wanted to kill herself. But Jesus put his hand on her shoulder and told her it wasn’t her time and she felt incredible peace. She said that this church is like her family, and she was so glad that she had it. She was also glad the man who had the chest pain came to church today, so he wouldn’t be alone when this happened…so he could be around family.
Then a man told me that he was walking away from his faith. He was really mad at God!
Then a woman shared with me that two of her best friends just died this week in separate circumstances.
I spoke to someone who told me they almost died because of taking bad drugs that week.
I talked with two separate people who were suicidal, and I really think at least one of them was quite serious!
It also was a friends first day back at church after being in an addictions program for 7 months, a little crazy for him, and now he’s wondering if this is the place for him.
So that was church yesterday…a little crazy…but that’s our group…seems like there’s always something going on, but I pray that somehow God is using his little church here to do something good for these people!