Four years

Four years.

I have been serving at my Church for four years now. That's right, four years.


For 48 months I have been learning about life in the country, and what it takes to plant a church (in the country!) and be a part of a team.

For 208 weeks I have been challenged to embrace change. Just a couple of the minor ways my job has changed over the past 208 weeks; my position was originally temporary, then part-time, and now is full-time. We started in hallways of a rented facility, built a building, moved in, and have switched set-ups for the children's ministry no less than four times since moving in to the building. We now run three different Upward Sports, on 15 acres of land that was not even cleared or inhabited (by humans!) 208 weeks ago.

For 1460 days I have fallen more and more in love with where God has called me. Not all of those 1460 days I realized that I was in fact falling in love, but today I can see how the days of struggle and turmoil have so deeply enriched my love and gratitude for where God has brought me and all that He has done around me.

I pray the next four years will be just as exciting, fun, and difficult as the last four.