Qudos
June 9, 2009
So, today I spent most of my time trying to organise the final touches to our transition from having worship services in our regular building to now holding them in Qudos. We have had so many wonderful blessings and generous offers of help, accomodating storage and just generally friendly chat from our interactions with the staff and with settling into the QMU as our summer venue. I’ve been relating this time back back to how things were when I was putting together the weekly GUCU meetings in Qudos just over two years ago, same venue, same staff, but different thing.
The process then was in some ways similar- having to organise each meeting to a tight schedule with
setting up PA and chairs too, and welcoming people and getting the word out as to where and when the meeting would be so people would show up. This time round it’s amazing to have a whole community of keen team members and church members who are all working together though, as well as unusual favour that is making the move to the QM really blessed
I’m sitting here, just very thankful. Having no clue how long we will be without a permanent meeting place, I’m thankful we can have Qudos for now, and it is a silver lining to a week where we say goodbye to the red building and having a place to meet through the week with the prayer room, band rehearsals, kids place and lounge area as well as a kitchen and office space.
So although things are heavily busy for now, especially for the church staff, and there’s going to be an upheaval beyond what we can expect, I’m sitting down to notice what God’s doing in paving our way across the rough patches. I’m praying and hoping that we will get to return to our building after a time away from it, that this crazy journey is exactly the one which we’re meant to be on!
Rather insignificant to it all is this photo-I put it up because I’m still listening and working out where my keyboard is going to live this summer since it had been settled in our building. I realize this detail is just a spec in the mosaic of God’s picture for Re:Hope and for all the moving and storing and shaping he’s doing…but I see that He’s got the details and we’re part of it, mosaic piece by mosaic piece.
