It's over...or not! ;-)

WOW! Thanks! Wow! Praise God for all that He did and Thanks to all of those who represented Jesus' body so well on April 19th! With over 600 people participating on over 60 projects, I really don't know even half of what went on! Please tell you stories here! Let us know what you saw, what you learned, how God used you and how you will live your differently in light of those things.

From the outset, we've said that GraceWorks is an initiative focused not on one day, but on helping to lift the eyes of God's people to see the hurt and brokenness around us and to step in with Christ's love and message of hope! PLEASE let's not just record this as a great day. Keep looking for projects! Keep recruiting friends and raising awareness of needs and going out to meet them in Jesus name and love!

Almost there!

April 19th is fast approaching! We've got over 500 people signed up (and more still signing up!) to head out into the community as the hands and feet of Christ.

Come together...

So our goal is to see the grace that we've experienced in a relationship with God lived out in works that are expressions of thanks and evidence of a changed/changing heart. How are we doing? I'm frankly a little afraid that 'doing' GraceWorks on the 19th of April will be a one and done deal and that folks will wonder when we are going to do something neat like that again. My prayer and passion is that God would use us in His world on a daily basis for His glory and the good of people, through our love for Jesus. I'm envisioning this as a time of spiritual cataract surgery. The lenses of our eyes have clouded over so badly that we simply can't see the world around us as it really is. We can't see (or very poorly see) the hurt and brokenness around us and we continue on with our busy lives.

Wouldn't our Lord want us to be about restoring the shalom/peace of community in our world? We can only do this partially and even that is by HIS power and grace work in us as a community, but we can, as the people of God be used in God's world for good! In fact we must, if we are to be true followers of Jesus Christ, walk as Jesus walked.