LCCWorship

This post is to give an update on how God has provided for us at LCC in just the last few days…

First, we went prayer walking on Sunday in the neighborhoods around Patterson Elementary where we will be holding our services. God’s provision doesn’t have so much to do with the prayer walking itself (although he did provide safety for that) but more the weather. Being spring here in Oregon it can sometimes be hit and miss as to what the weather is actually going to do. The previous weekend the weather was great. It was nice and sunny and in the upper 60s to low 70s (the first ’shorts’ weather for many people in the Northwest). However, this past weekend was a different story. I’ve been trying to locate one of those nice weather icons that forecasters use in the weather reports, but have not been able to track one down that accurately describes last weekend. Friday night and Saturday both were a mixed bag of weather. It kind of seemed  like ‘mother nature’ was just putting her hand in a bag and picking a new weather event every 30 minutes or so. We saw just about everything (Sun, clouds, rain, hail, and snow) within about a 45 minute period on Saturday. It wasn’t just small, light snow flakes either.  It was heavy snow. Snow in April is unheard of in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Anyways, I’ve digressed a bit here, the forecasters were calling for more of the same on Sunday which really would have made prayer walking pretty miserable - enter God’s provision. For the two hours that we prayer walked on Sunday there wasn’t a drop of anything falling from the sky on us, in fact the clouds even cleared up and the sun broke through. I even had to take off my jacket because I was getting hot from the sun. This goes to show that God is faithful to answer prayers and always provides for his people. At some point on Sunday while prayer walking each of us was praying “God, please keep the rain and snow and hail away until we are done.”

Now, the next item…

As I mentioned yesterday we are having our first actual band rehearsal on Thursday. I have been trying to figure out how we can have any sort of productive rehearsal without any equipment (other than our own instruments). No sound board, no mics, no cables, no nothin’.  Well, again God has come through! I sent an email this morning to a couple of the other staff members to see if it would be ok if we went ahead and purchased some minimal equipment that we can use while waiting for our Church on Wheels equipment (not until June). It turns out that God, having seen this need already, had already provided a small portable sound system for us to use. Our Associate Pastor actually has access to a nice portable system that will be more than sufficient for our rehearsals and preview services until we get our own system! Praise God! So it looks like the only excuses now for a bad rehearsal is poor leadership :(.  Pressure’s on now…

These two things really serve as a great reminder that we should not worry about the details and we just need to trust God to take care of them, because as long as we are faithful to him and obey his will he WILL ALWAYS take care of the rest.