Church on the lawn – sun beating down on my head – no bugs flying around…
On and on this could go. Needless to say, the fire on the pole and the blown transformers meant no electricity for the school where we meet. So, Saturday night at 7 p.m. a crew cleaned up the recently mowed field and made sure that everything we needed was out of the storage container. That in itself meant sorting through what had been removed earlier in the day, and getting the right pieces out.
Bright and early Sunday morning, the crews were in place to move 200 chairs and staging. Rolling the chair racks over the grass was not an option – we found some old asphalt behind the building, but still, every stack was a two-man job. By 9 a.m. we had chairs, stage and canopies up as the sun continued to rise and beat down on us. It could not have been more perfect (somebody knew what He was doing).
There have been times when we have planned to do things outside, and the day started off cloudy or foggy, and may clear up by 11. This was a perfect worship experience. Acoustic guitars, congregation singing along and just praising God. Then the message about what happens when we lose our source of power. We need to stay plugged in… Our power comes from a source that we need to stay connected to. When we forget to “plug in”, we start to falter and fail. Check out Acts 1.