The Assignment

My husband, Randy and I are both wildly committed to the church.  

We've had quite a journey in our own church experience.  Randy comes from a Catholic background and I go way back with Conservative Baptists.  But in more recent years, probably more than either of us would like to admit, we've had our thinking challenged and found that God and life with Him isn't as easily explained as we were sometimes led to believe.  Odd as it may seem, we're okay with that.  Somehow our faith has expanded by putting it in One who is so far beyond us.

We've both been involved in ministry in a variety of contexts but it wasn't until just a few weeks ago that we found ourselves church homeless again.  We're not without community - just without a building, as some might consider church in the formal sense.  After pondering what to do with this strange dilemma we both came to realize we'd been given a passion about a strange but peace filled assignment.  

So - here it is:  Although we haven't been given the amount of time - we'll be visiting churches in and around the Portland Metro area looking for indications of what God is doing.  We're so excited to see similarities and differences - for strains of the Almighty in our midst.

Randy probably put it best one morning when he said this, "If the church is the bride of Christ, then we're kind of like wedding crashers."  Well, I don't know if we're crashing weddings, per se, since the wedding feast is yet to come.  Maybe we're more like wedding rehearsal dinner crashers.  At any rate - we're not church hopping.  We're intentionally looking for God in the City of Portland.  We're praying as we go.  Eager to share what is revealed ...