It's official!!

Jonathan is a pastor which makes me a pastor's wife?!?!? And my kids PK's?!?!? Yep, you read that right, Jonathan is planting and pastoring Lakeside Community Church. Now, let me back up and do some explaining.

We have been part of Pillar Church, a church plant, since it began over 3 years ago. We committed for a year and even after moving 45 minutes away, have yet to leave. Pillar is family and after having such a difficult time finding a church to begin with, we decided it was worth the drive. Clint, our pastor, and his family have been a great influences in all of our lives. One day, he told Jonathan he thought he should plant a church out here where we leave. We did not believe he was serious. Us, planting a church?? You guys who know us are probably asking yourselves the same thing and 3 years ago our answer would have been completely different. However, we began to pray about it and Jonathan felt like God was definitely calling him to plant a church in our Locust Grove area.

So, in November, we began meeting with 2 other couples, the Clifton's, and our family for a Bible study and church planting. We had many decisions to make including a church name, our church purpose, etc. We also decided to hold a banquet to share the vision of our church. This was an overwhelming task, but to God, it was nothing. All of our hard work paid off, and Saturday night, January 26, we held the Lakeside Community Church Vision Banquet. We had close to 100 people in attendance including area pastors, Pillar members, Stafford Baptist people, community people, as well as many others. We believed it would be ok, but it turned out way better than we could have imagined. God had more plans for the banquet then we knew!! It was beautiful inside and we had a great praise band from Soul Purpose, one of our sponsor churches. We also had a wonderful friend, Amanda Long, write a song particular to all of us that she played piano for and sang. It was amazing and that is not even a good description!! Thank you, Amanda!

Currently, Lakeside meets on Sunday evenings in a local elementary school. Our official launch will be in September, but we have plenty to do in the meantime. We have many outreaches planned to reach our neighbors in the area. Please pray with us as we begin to see God's plans for Lakeside.

So, that means, that yep, I am now a pastors wife which MANY people keep pointing out to me. Are you guys trying to tell me something???