All this week, I’ve been working at our new location (Trinity Baptist) to get it ready for Easter and thereafter. But I certainly haven’t been alone. As many as 30 students from Tacoma Baptist School, where I teach, have been helping us get ready. We have painted the entire upstairs hallways, three rooms, and completely transformed one room. Also, for the last two days, we went door to door hanging flyers on our neighbors’ houses to invite them to our church.

Not only that, some of our church members went above and beyond to help. Someone donated hundreds of dollars worth of paint for us, as well as pressure washers for the parking lot. Another person, who was an expert painter, donated his time in directing students to paint. Five different people volunteered to make food for the students all this week even though the students were expected to bring their own lunch. And of course, my school’s principal cancelled classes all this week to make these students available not only to us but to other churches as well!

All this came about within one week of deciding that we would move to a new location! I am taking all this in as God’s blessing on our move and am very cautiously excited about what God will do through us. Cautious, because I know that just because we seem to be following God’s will does not mean that things will always go our way. For example, when we were going door to door today to hang door-hangers, it started pouring rain! All of us got soaked since many of us did not come prepared for rain! But rather than dampening our spirit, it only solidified our resolve to keep reaching this neighborhood for Jesus.

Today is Good Friday. Jesus died on this day. He volunteered to die. How horrible our sin and how helpless  we must be for Christ to do that to save us? Nothing depends on us. We cannot do anything to make one iota of difference either in our lives and in others. Salvation is admitting this, and falling on the feet of Jesus and saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, a sinner!” And then we live our lives continuing to confess and trust that He will give us the strength to do that which we cannot.

May Christ be all in all!

PH