Grand Central Station

We spent last weekend with Woodland Bible Church, and what a wonderful experience that was. Saturday we played for part of a fundraiser for a girl who will be a part of this coming summer program. She played with her worship team, then a separate group played, and then we closed out the night. God’s provision proved faithful in how much she was able to raise for this summer! During our mini-set, I got the opportunity to share about my summer trip to Taiwan two years ago. It was awesome to get to share with her supporters a real CTI summer experience as someone who’s done it before. In the middle of talking, I just got so excited for her and for everyone getting ready for a summer team.

The next morning we played a few songs for the worship part of the church service. We had the opportunity to learn a little more about the church through an adult Sunday school group and through the service. They don’t want the church to be a building that’s vacant 6 days of the week, they want it to be a community center of sorts. So something is always going on there whether it’s music (they had a sweet music setup that we got to use), youth events, or whatever. The pastor referred to it as a veritable “Grand Central Station”.

Something CTI is good at doing is revealing the importance of something that could be easily overlooked. An example of that is when they encourage us to think of time off-stage as ministry time as well. This goes under something else they talk about, which is stewardship of opportunity. We aren’t necessarily called to do huge things, but to be faithful to the opportunities presented to us. Much like what CTI encourages us to do, Woodland Bible Church has done a good job of stewarding what they have, their building. They see their off time (Mon-Sat) as an opportunity.

That church was great, and I hope to be a part of one like it some day. I also hope that one day I’ll naturally have that attitude as well.