Worship – Last week I got to play bass, this week I got to play lead guitar. There’s a world of difference between playing guitar while you’re leading worship and just playing guitar – and again, I haven’t done that in a long time. I had a blast. It didn’t hurt that we did a few songs that totally rocked out as well!
I’m going to have to scale down how much I help out over the next couple of months, though – Amy will be at 32 weeks tomorrow. Given that McKenna and Jeremiah were both born at 37 weeks, and that like them, this little girl is measuring two weeks ahead, we really have only a few weeks left to get things ready. The baby’s room is still a “guest” room, the hospital bag is only halfway packed, and we need to make a final decision on a name! Time to get cracking!
Friends – I helped my good friend (and former pastor) Pat load up yesterday for a few hours. Tomorrow, they’re moving to Indiana where Pat has taken a pretty cool position at Indiana Wesleyan University. They’ve been some of our closest friends over the years. We’ve shared ministry, frustrations, dreams, and vacations together. Pat and Alison had only been married a couple of years when they first stayed at our house on their first visit to Goergia, just like Amy and I at the time. And as they’re leaving they have three kids, we’re about to have our third.
We’ve known this was coming for long time, and we had already been serving God in separate ministries for over a year. But we’re still sad to see them go. I just had this secret hope that something would pop up for them closer to Georgia! But they’ll be close to their family, Pat will be close to Anderson University (where he’s working on his doctorate), and the job at Indiana Wesleyan is really cool.
I hope God will direct our paths to cross again, but if not, we know that just means we’ll have to wait just a bit longer to serve God together again.
Hey…just dropping in…instead of the RSS thing… Rich