Team Church & Red Cross team up to save lives!

At 5:30 am this morning the Red Cross truck pulled into our parking lot and started to unload the beds, the needles, the blood banks and the like. Starting at 7am this morning over 150 adults from Team Church will roll in here to give their own Blood!

This blood of course will be used to save lives in emergencies and other times that life saving blood is required in medical procedures. The blood given stays here in Meck County and is used for our city. This is a great way to kick off our year long 10 year anniversary celebration. As you know, we are doing 10 outward focused service projects to our surrounding communities.

In talking to Janice Walters, the Team Church volunteer who is leading this effort, she tells me that she feels compelled to do this! Why? Because a few years ago she was having a surgical procedure when things went wrong. The end story is that if it were not for the Red Cross Blood Bank.....she would have died. She knows that without the generous giving of others people's blood, she would not be here. So......she gives back her own blood plus helps lead out in these massive blood drives.

Hmmmmmm giving your time and effort so that others may live...because you know what it is like to have been saved......that sounds like the main reason I challenged all of us to "Reach people where they are and lead them to full devotion in Jesus Christ."

I hope to see you here this morning...7am - noon.

How did the Rezoning vote go last night? It went very well! The Mayor himself made the motion to accept the motion. After some discussion it was said by a few town council members that they agreed that the best use for the property is for a church and the facilities, walking trails, natural areas and sports fields we will develop. However.....they wanted us to provide a buffer on the South East corner of our current property that exceeds the code basics. We gladly obliged their request.

So, two weeks from now we go back and will show them an example of what we are willing to do. That way there is a clear descriptiveness of what we will do and their is no confusion. For those who are wondering...."will this thing ever end?" Yes, this is it. I was assured by the Town Council that this was the only other issue and the only one to be discussed and brought up in two weeks. So, we will show them via pictures and landscape drawings what we are proposing as a buffer on that corner and then we will have our rezoning.

Patience is a great virtue that we can all develop. As I tell my sons all the time, if it is not worth working for, waiting for and sacrificing for....then it may not be worth it.

Time for me to go give some blood! Here is a question to ponder....Do you think ADHD is transmitted through Blood? HA HA


Here is a great verse for today:

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.