Hard Times

So, I'd love to pretend our life is perfect, and only remember the good times, but let's be honest, that's just not anyones reality and it doesn't do any good to go through hard times if you can't look back on them later. So today I'm going to talk about the church plant. We haven't had alot of success through our invites and outreach as far as getting people to come to a service. So, we decided to put more effort into Bible studies. A couple of weeks ago, Gordon went door to door at our apartments asking to do a survey about church and culture. The survey asks questions such as "Do you go to church regularly?" If not, "why?" "What do you look for in a church?", etc. The final question asks them if they would like a Bible Study. Out of the five people he talked to, he got two Bible Studies. I would say that's pretty good odds. The only thing is we aren't seeing positive results after the Bible studies. The last one, Saturday, the guy said he wanted to get Baptized. He said he would come to the church and get baptized after service. We got everything set up, including borrowing a portable baptistry, and the guy didn't show up. I understand the law of the harvest. I know we have to sow before we can reap, but we could definitely use a little glimpse of hope!

We had a great day full of family time today. Spent the afternoon at Folsom Lake.

Gray enjoying a push up at the "yake"