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January 10, 2020
Dear Church,
Can you believe it’s 2020? It seems like yesterday that I was celebrating New Years Eve on the precipice of the year 2000! I can even remember where I was that evening. I was outside on a friend’s porch on an unseasonably warm night for December in Massachusetts, and have a distinct memory of standing out there and wondering what the future would hold (and if Y2K would leave us in the Stone Age). What I couldn’t have anticipated 20 years later was that… the Patriots would get kicked out of the playoffs in the wild card round... oh, and the fact that I’d be a pastor someday. I never would have dreamed!
I wish I could tell that young kid in 2000 that he’d be at a church in the Midwest someday that collected socks for the homeless, and supplied Christmas presents for needy families. I’d have loved to know there was a church that raised over $34,000 on Christmas Eve to provide clean water for people in rural Mozambique, and sent dozens of people to partner with underprivileged kids in the local school systems to help them grow in their reading skills. And not only that, but as a kid who asked a lot of faith, questions (to the chagrin of my pastor), I’d have been thrilled to know we had a sermon series asking foundational questions about our faith.
Unfortunately, I can’t go back in time and tell young Chris these things. Nor can I stop the years from coming and going (ever faster and faster). But we can decide what kinds of stories we end up telling someday. We can use this new year to continue
to make a difference. We can decide to invite God to saturate our life this year.
And I’m excited to spend 2020 with you! We’re at an exciting turning point in the story of our church and I hope that at this time next year, we can look back at the amazing way God used us this year.
Hope to see you this weekend as we continue “Foundations of the Faith” and take a deep dive into the Christian faith!
Much love,
Pastor Chris
P.S. We had 440 people in worship this last weekend, which is an amazing start to the year! Only five weekends in 2019 were better attended than that. Thanks for helping kick start us into the new year!
P.P.S. It’s not too late to join our Bible-in-one-year plan! 60 folks have signed up on the app and I’d love to have you join us. Just go to bit.ly/bible01 to join our shared plan.