Church...

It's been a while since we've last posted so we figured we would play catch up a bit.  It's been getting warm here in the North West, but once again we are expecting snow.  Nothing compared to the East, so we will welcome it but we are more than ready for spring to come...I want to start my garden!

After the holidays we quickly got back into the swing of things with friends, family, work, and church.  We are a part of Trademark Church in Nampa and love our church family there!  Our church only gathers every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month.  We are made up of several different missional communities we call "Gospel Communities" that meet throughout the week to live, serve, and learn together.  Each community is very different from the others, but we all love gathering as a larger group on those Sundays!

It was our intention with the New Year starting to begin again with a small group of friends and as we prayed for God to grow our Gospel Community, several others joined us and we continue to look to invite others as well.  There are 9 of us so far (all in our 20's) and we are learning how to be family and do life alongside each other.  We do our best to have dinner with everyone at least once a week, we have fun together, call on each other for help or to help meet the needs of others around us, and to pray and learn together.  We also serve together at church when it's our turn as a community.  We look forward to what God is doing in our group and for those we interact with each day!

This past Sunday we had the excitement of celebrating two baptisms!  Our pastor's son and a young lady who has been a part of our church for the past year or so.  It's amazing to hear their stories and to see how only God can transform lives.  Another church let us borrow their baptismal and we celebrated afterward with a big dinner!