Thirteen years ago today, Christ Fellowship had our first service as a new church. If memory serves, there were about nine of us that left Runaway Bay as the First Baptist Church and went to Lake Bridgeport. I think there are about six or seven of us left out of that original group. And we had no idea what God was going to do in and with our church but we knew what kind of church God wanted us to be. We knew He wanted us to minister to the poor, the addicted and the incarcerated and so that’s what we have done all these years. We had no idea the stories we would be able to tell thirteen years later. We had no idea the people that would come into and go out of our church and how God would use us to minister to them so they could go minister to others.
Yes, we have a lot of funny stories and a lot of God stories and some sad stories as well. But I’m looking forward to seeing what God is going to do in the future with Christ Fellowship! I’m looking forward to seeing how He uses us and where He uses us and to the stories we will tell in years to come. I love telling those old stories but I think about Isaiah 43 where God says, “Forget the former things. See, I’m doing a new thing!” Yes! I want that new thing! I want what God has for us. I want the place and I want the people and I want His blessings and I want it when He wants us to have it, in His perfect timing. I love the church that we are now but we have a long way to go. I learn something new all the time. And God continues to work in His church. He said in Matthew 16 that He would build His church and so we just want to be “buildable.”
I love you, Christ Fellowship. I do. Thank you for loving me and supporting me in all the ways you do and have for so many years. These next few years are going to be fun! I hope you are ready. See ya Sunday. — Todd