SO I WAIT
Sunday 17 August 2008 at 07:49 am I am a “fixer”, a “get things done” kind of guy, therefore I hate waiting. I mean I really hate waiting, but God has me in a waiting mode right now. God knows that I won’t wait if he doesn’t set things up so I am forced to wait, so now I wait. I can share some of the things I am waiting on others I can’t.• Walnut Terrace: We should find out sometime in September if the City will receive the Hope VI grant. If they do then they will start the process of tearing down Walnut Terrace. They will tear it down either way the grant is what dictates the schedule. This will be the third large public housing they have torn down around me. I had only been in Halifax for a few months before they started moving everyone out. Chavis I was very involved I that community and walked through the whole process with my people. I think that Walnut Terrace will be the hardest. I have been in Walnut Terrace for 12 years. Many of the people that I worked with in Halifax and Chavis are in Walnut. I am waiting to see what the future of Walnut is before I decide how to carry out ministry there this fall. If they get the grant then I will just stay there myself and work with the families I know and hopefully have the kids in other clubs; however if they don’t get grant and it will be over a year before they do anything then I will hopefully have a fully staffed Kid’s Club there. So I wait
• Mission Trip: I leave for Asia on September 1 and will not return until September 11. There is so much I want to start in the Oaks and Raleigh North but I can’t start much until I return from overseas. People have a hard time understanding how I can be a “Minister of Missions” and not get excited about going overseas. I am not a normal “Minister of Missions”, my life is not short term work. I am not saying that makes me better than other “Ministers of Missions”, it does however make me different. Typically once I am on a plane heading for the mission trip I start to get excited. Right now all I can think of is that my ministry here is pretty much on hold. So I wait.
• Staff: Amy and George are, or at least should be, in full out job searching mode right now. When God provides them jobs my life is going to be greatly different. Let me give you an example, I came back from being in Louisville, Kentucky teaching a conference last week. When I came home I found school supplies sorted and bagged and ready for distribution. I hadn’t assigned that work, mainly because I was still brain dead from summer, but Amy and George knew what had to be done and took the initiative to handle school supplies. I have put one salary in my budget for next year, but not sure what the chance of getting that salary is in reality. We are looking at other means to reestablish a staff in the near future but not sure about those likelihoods either. So I wait.
"Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth." -- Psalms 46:10
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