One of the primary things I believe about God is He is a relational Creator. He proves that over and over in so many ways. The longer I live, the more I see a connection between my past and my present (and even my future) that demonstrates His relational nature.This past week we attended the National Master's Commission Conference in Fort Worth, TX. It's the first national MC Conference we've attended since 1999, the year we moved back to Lafayette. Most of you know Robin is in our Master's Commission program this year and our team always attends the conference. The national director, Lloyd Zeigler is a good friend who has been after me for some time to attend the national conference again. After all, our program in Lafayette was the very first program launched outside of the original program that Lloyd led in Phoenix, AZ. Today there are hundreds of programs world-wide! Sunday, after our last service, Donna, Chase and I loaded up and headed to Texas! It was a great conference! It was so inspiring to worship with over eight hundred young people so on fire for God! John Bevere was the keynote speaker this year and man did he ever bring it! Our guys performed their Christian Commitment stomp routine and brought the house down!
One of the highlights of the trip was God once again proving His relational nature to me. The host church for the conference has a Master's Commission program led by a young lady named Crystal Bernard. She also serves on the the board of MCIN (Master's Commissional International Network). Crystal is the daughter of a man named Glen Johnson, who I worked with at the old Howard Brother's distribution center back in the early 1980's. (For those of you who don't know ancient history, Howard Brothers was the Walmart of it's day.) I worked their on their loading docks and Glen often checked in the merchandise I unloaded. I was a backslidden Pentecostal preacher's kid, Glen was a fiery young Christian who shared Christ with me every day until I finally committed my heart to Christ! Now, thirty years later, I meet his daughter serving on the board of a network of Master's Commission programs of which we were the very first! You've got to love those divine connections!
His word says He directs our footsteps @ boy does He. After 30 years God brought us back to the area, @ directed us to Crossroads and the teacher who lead me to the Lord in 1980 was also attending Crossroads and her granddaughter @ my daughter had been praying for God to send each of them a Christian friend now the are best friends and come to find out we all started going to Crossroads in May 2008 and live just 3 miles from each other WOW! And Rick @ Cheryl Harrington we very close friends to us and the Lord had spoken to her in prayer we would have a baby @ after 20 years we adopted our baby girl who is now 11, so they are also back in our lives The Lord so knows the plans He has for us! Thank you Lord for leading us to Crossroads
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