5.27.10

These past few weeks have been so totally consuming that I decided to reprioritize and not spend the time to post to my blog in order to have enough time to handle the other urgent matters of flood relief coordination for Otter Creek members; friends, family and neighbors of Otter Creekers; the general population of Nashville (our teams worked in Bellevue, Pennington Bend, Antioch and Bordeaux just to name a few areas; helping with converting the fellowship hall at our Granny White building into a disaster supply distribution facility & food preparation kitchen for supplying meals to volunteers and people who lost everything; working with Tent City people who were completely displaced and left with no place to go.

Otter Creek rose to every call for support – people, supplies and money to help pay for all kinds of needs. I continue to thank God for the blessing of an active, caring and engaged congregation. There are definite disadvantages of being a large, wealthy, suburban church in one of the wealthiest counties in the country. As a ministry staff and part of the leadership team we wrestle with that every day. But there are also many advantages IF we are able to allow God to direct those resources and control our hearts and our spirits and continue to keep the focus off ourselves and onto him, our neighbors and the purposes and goal of the kingdom.

So over the next few please start to check back to the site and I’ll do my best to recap what all has been going on how Otter Creek has been trying to listen and follow God into the world in order to be salt and light and show community to ourselves and to people who are crying out for an environment of trust, compassion, accountability and engagement.