Thursday, 23 April 2009

• In your Dreams...

  

  Almost 5 years ago, my church went through a major change. Our senior Pastor of 18 years stepped down to do something God had been tugging on his heart to do. In my denomination, when a senior Pastor resigns, all of the staff does too. This allows the new Pastor to either stick with the previous staff or choose their own. Part of me understands that, another part of me thinks thats crazy. ANYWAYS! Losing the only senior Pastor I had known, as well as losing my youth pastor and his wife who were my best friends(they felt God leading them elsewhere), it was a tough year for me.

  A year after that, we hired on a new senior Pastor. He was unlike anyone I had ever met. Soon after that, he hired a new youth Pastor. Just a year older then me, we became friends. As the church secretary, I got to know our two new pastors. One thing that quickly stood out to me was the fact that they were dreamers and go getters. Always dreaming big. So much so, that my senior pastor forced me to schedual at least one hour of work time a week just to write down dreams I would like to see happen. Even though we were a small church, they didn't look at what we didn't have, but knew that if God gave them the dream, it would happen.

  The biggest dream that my youth Pastor had, was to build San Carlos's first skate park. We are right next door to a high school and a Jr. High. We always had skaters on our property. For the past three years, he has been pushing ideas around on how to get a skate park built. He talked to people; tried to get the community and parents involved. It seemed like it was never going to happen. In fact, he even had parents laugh in his face. Some parents called him a lier, and told him that he should not put foolish dreams into their children's minds. Though I'm sure at times he got discouraged, he never let go of the vision God placed in his heart.

  About 3 months ago, Chris (one of the youth pastors that our church networks with) called Matt(our youth Pastor). Chris is the youth pastor of The Skate Church a few towns over. He told Matt that his church was going to gather all the contractors in their church, come over on a Saturday and build us a $10,000 skate park.....FOR FREE!!!!! He felt this is what God has laid on his heart. So in March, a team of 30 people showed up at our church, worked all day, and built us a 14 peice skate park.

   

  Yesterday, April 23rd. was the first day our skate park was open! This Saturday, we are throwing a huge grand opening party. The two schools next to us have been advertising it for us. The police department is showing up to support us. We had parents out their skating with their kids yesterday! It was incredable. I know that we are going to see student's lives changed through this.

   

  Through out those three years of praying and dreaming for this event, the thing that never ceased to amazing me was how Matt stood and supported other people's dreams. Whether financially supporting, sending volunteers, or simply just praying with them.

   

  It's been a hard three year long process, and we saw God bring our dream to pass yesterday. This is my encouragment to you. Don't give up! If there is a dream or vision that God has placed in your heart, don't let go and gaurd it with all your heart. Don't let the lies of the enemy and world bring you down. Also, begin to support other people's dreams. Whether it's through prayer, time invested, encouragement, whatever God lead you to do.

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