share your food.

church yesterday was amazing.  i'm so excited to share some things that are in the works at our church.  jonathan and i have been going to Fairview Baptist Church for a little over a year now. or so.  our new pastor is going to be marrying us, and we feel so blessed.

we knew that there was supposed to be an announcement of sorts yesterday, and we were slightly in on the announcement.  we're on the inside track.  like in cranium, when you get your first question right.  haha. okay back to church.

yesterday pastor craig preached on Isaiah 58.  if you haven't read that, go read it.  it discusses how God is so not fulfilled by hypocrisy.  He's not okay with His people fasting to get a reaction - walking around with their faces all sunken.  He's not okay with people pretending to be His people and walking around with gigantic pieces of wood in their eyes while praying for God to handle the other people with the little specks in their eyes.

but then. if you read further, God tells His people directly what He wants instead.  He wants us to share OUR food with the hungry , provide shelter for the wanderers, give the naked people clothes, and not turn away from our own flesh and blood (v.7).  then He tells us what He'll do for us.  all good things of course.  He'll make us shine. He'll bless us. we'll quickly heal.  we'll call to God and He'll answer.  and so on.

so the announcement?  oh it was big.  so big.  our pastor has been convicted that God wants us to use the land next to our church to farm. as a church body. to plant crops. and let God use them to feed our neighbors.  our community.  our flesh and blood.  

he announced it and the church went about cheering.  the kind of cheering where you get chill bumps on your skin and you pretend you got something in your eyeball.  then this sweet little lady said "y'all we need to go pray about this."  and, well jonathan and i are usually just not up for going to the front of the church.  number one it causes slight (major) anxiety.  but it was different.  every person got out of their seats and went up front.  and we prayed.  in expectation.  waiting for God to answer us and affirm us and to use what we plant to bring people to Him.  and to feed them.  so we're waiting to hear from Him, but we think we've already heard.  we're excited about the future of our church.  

let me know if you'd like to be a farmer at Fairview :)  God bless!