I love to visit people in our church. I really do!!! I think it is fun to hear about our shut-ins grandchildren, their stories of how they met, and their stories of all the great things they did for the Church when they were able to go. I feel that sitting under the wisdom of past generations is a wonderful experience, and I don't take it for granted that it is one of the many areas in which I can serve God.
But today I had the most fun I have ever had visiting anyone! Chris and I have been wanting to bring people into visitation with us. So this week anyone who I spoke with from church, I asked to go with me to visit our shut-ins during this Easter week. Today our car ended up being myself, one of our 9 year old G.A.'s, a new member in her 20's, and our always-visiting-senior at the great age of 84. The combination of ladies in the car alone made me a little nervous, but we started our journey!
Each stop we made was so encouraging. We were able to spend time with our shut-ins, pray with them, and left with new friendships started! This may not be a very exciting blog to you; but I truly feel I have been in the presence of God today. I feel like his hand was on every part of our visits, and we grew in our fellowship with each other.
At the end of our trip, I was nervous that the 9 year old would be bored to tears, but she said, "next time I want to go again, but I want to bring a friend because this was fun!"
Who knew visitation could be so much fun!
THANKS BE TO GOD FOR TEACHING ME NEW THINGS EVERY DAY!
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That is awesome! If I lived closer I would want to go next time!
Hello! I found you from the Married To The Ministry Blogroll. I am a pastor's wife as well.
What a blessing to visit these lovely people and to go away blessed! Isn't that just like God?
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