After doing Blitzfest, the last thing I felt like doing was going to an "Advanced Committment" dinner last night for our church's building project. You may have read my earlier post on where we're at as a church, but if not, things ain't always pretty at Crossroads. I went to this meeting thinking, "Is this the right time to do something like this when we're still reeling from all this crap?" I'd just lost a significant amount of money in another investment and wasn't too thrilled to start to think about what I was going to do with this whole thing. So I went to the meeting. This was the second meeting (the first was last Wednesday), and there were about 30+ people there. We had dinner and then had some dessert before the spiel began. Joe began sharing the story of Crossroads and how it ties into the larger picture, comparing it in places with the isrealites. Steve then went through and shared some of the church's financials and Bob talked about the property and the building plan and financing. The property we've put an offer on is fantastic. It's an old arabian horse farm on Pontiac Trail, across from Irwin's Orchard. It's centrally located, has 5 acres, a house and barn already included, which work great for initial church offices and youth group stuff. We're going through some of our due diligence on the property, but it's awesome. As we went through this, I started to get very excited. I saw a big group of people that were also very excited about this, and suddenly, our goal of $140k for the down payment on the property seemed very doable, with lots of help from God. As a part of this, Joe used the metaphor of how a patient heals. One of the women who was there, Linda, had just come from the hospital. She shared how one of the first things she had to do after a major surgery was to start walking. She thought they were nuts, since she was all hooked to tubes and monitors, but they wanted her to walk, and explained how key it was to the healing process. I think that's where we're at as a church. We need to start walking. I need to move forward, to start walking and assuming that we are going to heal some day. I'm interested in seeing what God does in all of this. Should be interesting.