Is it Him or is it me.

Tick, tock, tick, tock...ok, there was no tick, tock because I was looking at a digital clock but you get the point, time was moving slow. I sat in a conference room waiting for 6:45 pm and hoping and praying that someone, anyone would show up. I had put out 1,000 brochures, been asking my prayer team to pray fervently and was waiting for God to do something incredible.

6:45 came and went, I kept a smile, 7:00, I laughed a little, 7:20 time to pack up. No one, nadda, zip, zero. Not a single person came to the first meeting for our church plant. Now I know that door to door brochure distribution is not a high numbers way of advertisment but I thought I would at least get one, especially because several people I talked with seemed genuinely interested.

I must admit that was someone dissapointed and I felt like throwing in the towel but I had to remind myself that no one ever said this was going to be easy. I had only handed out some brochures. I know that I need to be much more aggresive in finding people. I need to get at least one family from the area to come on board.

Lord, help me to be faithful with what I believe you have called me to. Church planting is hard work especially when you are going into an area alone and not knowing anyone. I will do what it takes but I need you to build your church.

T.