Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Update

We visited a small church two weeks ago and almost instantly knew that God had led us there. The church group is about 1 year old with a young minister (29 I think) with a young family (3 little girls: 4, 2 and maybe 4-6 months). Most of the families of the church seem to be new converts with little to no church background. The minister works full time in construction, manages the church and conducts Bible studies throughout the week. Not so much verbally, but in his actions he's screaming for encouragement and support. How this type of lifestyle must suck every ounce of energy from a person. The minister and his wife are probably bombarded with the needs of ministry. We will attend here and encourage where we can. I've already talked to the minister on several occasions about different things and we seem to click. We have a lot of similar interest.
My prayer is that we can sit back and not be too invasive. That we wouldn't try to take over his ministry. That we would serve in the gaps that need filled. There are parts of the service that bug me, but really they're trivial things. My wife and I discussed last night how we'll just pray about the quirky things, and if they're issues that God deems worthy to make a fuss about, He'll lay it on the ministers heart to change.
He is very focused on the family. Once again, his family is still young. He needs to focus on his family. He also needs to teach it. With a fresh group of Christians, they've probably never heard about holy living or protecting your family; as soon as they get stripped of their innocence, you can't get that back. If God moves you, please pray for this situation.
Also, pray for other opportunities that may be opening up. I can fill in more details later about this.
And lastly, God seems to be working on everyone in the Knapp household. The children are asking spiritual questions. I pray for wisdom in answering them. I always need to remember to answer in a way that a six year old can understand. Also to answer the questions and not break into a sermon, complete with topic changes and cross references.
Anyway, we would covet your prayers in this time as God is working in this family. Pray that we could be pleasing to God and glorify Him in all that we do!

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