3/19/17 Today Mark and Jayden were at the Bismark North
Dakota horse sale. I took the boys and Rylie to church. Pastor Shane came and
spoke today. He is the family pastor from Cornerstone that I
have gotten to know. I really enjoy hearing him and he is a very personable guy. He did a great job going through Ephesians and stopped to talk of
his adoption as part of Ephesians chapter 1. He has 5 children under the age of 11, and is adopting
2 from the Congo in Africa. The two children were brought out of hiding, living
in severe poverty and near dying of starvation. Goosebumps ran over me as I
recalled several years ago when Shane had 2 children and we talked about his wife
having a heart for adoption. I love adoption and hearing the uplifting and
encouraging stories. SO many of the stories come with such long hard roads
during the process. It is a hard journey, one with many trials and heartbreak.
I am excited for Pastor Shane as they are getting closer to bringing these children
home. After the service I wanted to say hi and tell him in person. It made my
day that he not only remembered me, he gave me a hug and told me he missed our
family over at Cornerstone. I was truly touched, he has probably met thousands
of people and families and he remembered us. It makes me long to go back to
Cornerstone. I miss that church. I feel like they are my people, I feel more
connected, and it feels like my church. I have met women and families from years ago that I still see and
stay in touch with. I loved so much about the church, the pastors, the teaching, the
worship, the people, the global update, the baptisms, and being in the know on what the church’s big NEXT step is. I have
found it harder to mesh with this church in Boone. It is much smaller, but I
feel like I haven’t gotten to know many. All the people in our connection group
I have known for years before any of us attended church together. At
Cornerstone, 4 other families whom, I got to know through bible study are in
the process of adopting from Ghana. I get emails and read posts of the latest
struggles. Maybe I cannot adopt, but I can be a prayer warrior for them and
help in other ways. I still feel very connected to them. Love that church
family and miss them.
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