Lens Creek on My Mind

Wow!!!! Two posts in less than a week...that's a pretty big accomplishment. The reason I write tonight is to really tell you what God has laid on my heart tonight. It's Wednesday night...and while there are many churches to attend on this fine evening there is one that sticks on my mind, and that is my home church. Isn't it something how God can put a desire on your heart like this? As I invested my heart into the Hernshaw, WV area during my Christmas break my heart began breaking for all the children in the area. I think about their situations at home and wonder if they were anything like mine. Have they even heard the Gospel? Have they ever stepped a foot into church? What about their parents? As I began doing this, my pastor and I went to visit communities and told them about our youth program at the church.
As we did all those visits I was struggling with doubt about this whole process. How will God ever allow our little 'ole church to have a tremendous youth program? We were obedient to what God would have us do and kept knocking on doors. I didn't see much of an improvement before I left for school, but can I tell you I had one of the most joyous nights last Thursday when my pastor called and told me that we had filled up that 15 passenger van and had a total of 35+ kids and workers for our youth program! If I could have found a mountain top at the time he told me that I would have just been praising the Lord all night and telling the whole town of Buckhannon how good He was to me and my church. Our small little church, which averages just a little under 50 on Sunday mornings had just around 30 kids last Wednesday! My God can do anything...and this shows it!
So as I sit here tonight and recollect on those visits and those kids, my heart is breaking for that little area. I want to be there...I want to help out...I want to see what God has in store for Lens Creek...but that will have to wait. As you pray this week...remember Lens Creek...remember the pastor and leadership at the church...and pray that God would keep this church going in the direction he would have it!!

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