Dad sent us the video just to show us what he had done. However, after seeing the video, God stirred our hearts about how we could get involved. Maybe God wanted our church to spend a week there working? Maybe God wanted us to share our ideas/vision for what might happen there? Maybe God wanted us to move there? But we weren't looking to move . . . things at Taylor Avenue are going great, are You sure, God?!?!
We couldn't get away from the tugging feeling that God wanted us involved somehow. So we decided to send an e-mail to the DS about the project, just expressing how excited we were about what God was doing in Cactus. We know how DS's are, they get e-mails from pastors all the time . . . so, God, if you really are calling us there, You are going to have to show us. FLEECE #1 (See Judges 6 for the story of Gideon and his fleece.)
At the same time, the video was shown to the West Texas District Assembly and to the USA/Canada Regional Director. God began stirring the hearts of Nazarenes and the money started flowing in . . . enough to buy a 1.2 acre of land on the edge of town . . . enough to purchase a metal building to be erected by Work and Witness teams in the near future . . .
And, somehow God worked in that e-mail and stirred the DS to respond to us. As he put it, he gets e-mails all the time from pastors who are "called" to serve in the big Nazarene churches of West Texas, but never had he gotten an e-mail from pastors who might be called to serve in a tiny town of 3,000 immigrants and refugees. FLEECE #1 ANSWERED
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| Looking from the corner of the street onto the 1.2 acre of land that has been purchased for CNMC. |
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| Looking towards the back of the 1.2 acre of land . . . Eli's loving the wide open West Texas spaces! |
