Kim and I got home today from a little jaunt down to Sandy Cove, MD with the rest of Calvary’s staff. Dan’s back from his sabbatical, and he wanted to take the staff away to say thanks for our hard work in his absence, and to talk about some of the things that he learned while he was sabbaticalizing.
It was a good time away. We got to relax a little, eat a lot, and (more importantly) hear about how God is moving in the lives of our fellow staffers. It’s easy to get caught up in all the DOING of the stuff, easy to get isolated from the lives and love of the rest of the team, easy to get my eyes on my stuff and off of the big picture. This time away was good for re-focusing our efforts as a team.
A few things that Dan shared really touched home with us:
We all need to make sabbath a priority in our lives. There has to be margin in our lives for play and pray, for God to refill our tanks. That should look differently as it plays out for each of us, but it’s vital.
We committed to sharing more about how God is speaking to us through his word. We’re all going to be reading the same passages of scripture, journaling using the SOAP (Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer) method, and sharing what God is teaching us.
Dan shared more about his heart for the Centre Region, and for what our role might be as God continues to lead us, bless us, equip us, and call us to be his people.
I am so glad that Kim got to go with us. She’s not officially part of the staff, but she is absolutely every bit the youth pastor that I am, and I’m not truly whole without her. It was good for her to hear the stories that people shared about God moving, to get to know some of the newer people on the team, and to hear Dan cast vision for the future.
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