The Vote is in!

A cool thing happened yesterday in church...I suppose a few cool things happened, but the vote to go ahead and pursue the sharing opportunity with Peace UCC in Walnut was a unanimous yes. I expected the vote to go well, but unanimous, that is most definitely a Spirit thing. Yesterday was a confirmation of sorts that we are following the Spirit and that God is leading Minden UCC.

It was also fun to have the Sunday school kids sing...they did an amazing job by the way! And the soup dinner to help raise some funds for the Deacon's Fund also went over well. Thank you all to the people who helped make that dinner a success.

If any of you are NASCAR fans the Daytona 500 was yesterday...if you aren't racing fans then I'm not going to bore you with details...and Trevor Bayne won the race. He's a 20 year old kid starting his second race and he pulled it off. Maybe the neatest thing was his responses when interviewed after the race. He seemed genuinely humbled, and he mentioned several times how good God was for giving him and his race team this opportunity. He didn't thank God for giving him the victory, which I hate because it assumes God favored him over everyone else, and he seemed very grounded. One question stuck out in particular. Trevor was asked what he was going to do with his share of the winnings, and he said he had some friends who were missionaries he'd like to support and he mentioned a particular mission. Pretty neat. He had no chance to prepare for the interviews because he never thought he'd have a chance to win, so the answers and the reactions were raw and real. Pretty neat if you ask me and I can be pretty jaded when it comes to athletes and how they talk about their faith. Something about him just captured my attention.

Nothing too exciting running through my head today, so I thought I'd just post some random thoughts. See you next week.