An Update on our "Agency"

I realize that it has been forever since I posted, so I wanted to give an update to the "crisis" I discussed in my last post.

I won't go on forever about it, but let it be said that "God truly is good!" His love endures forever. This corps is unbelievable and the people here are unmatched (in my experience) for kindness and unconditional love. At the end of the day, I don't care whether we end up called a church, an agency, a movement, a cult, or whatever. God is moving in ways I have never recognized before.

The staff member with whom I initially struggled with concerning our mission, has been one of our most valuable assets and has truly been a blessing to many. He often speaks of what God is doing, in private and in public!

People are being saved, board members and donors have been attending services, lives are truly being tranformed. At one board meeting when the issue of our "religious identity" came up in relation to our strategic vision, one board member made the statement that "people have known forever who we are and it hasn't seemed to bother them." Everyone agreed and THEY decided (without any input from me) to place the entire Salvation Army Mission Statement at the top of their strategic vision for this county.

The best part about what is happening here is that God is doing it in a way that makes it certain that it is of Him and not of us. May His Name be praised!