Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Journey of Faith #1: Hopeful Grief

It was great to have my friend and fellow elder, Donny Valliere, share what's been going on in his journey of faith in Sunday's worship service. Here's the video if you missed it.. . . .



And a few of my scattered thoughts . . .

  • Loved the first time of including a testimony in our service. We want to do more. What did you think?

  • Loved Donny's vulnerability and honesty. Here's an elder who doesn't have it all together. Feels sad and is grieving, but is also hopeful. All our elders are at different similar places in their unique journeys of faith. . . . most of the congregation doesn't realize it.

  • Love the ability to snag and post this video from our weekly DVD. Quality was surprisingly good. Did you know we have DVD's of every service available for shut-ins and others who desire to watch instead of just listen? So cool. We gotta do more video. Stay tuned.

  • Am I going bald or what? Too much gel or too short a haircut or something?

3 comments:

Jacquelyn said...

I missed church this Sunday (sick kid at home) and was really blessed by hearing this testimony. My favorite part of Baptism services is the testimonies so in my opinion, the more the better!! We are a family, right? we need to hear from each other.

Matt said...

I appreciated hearing what's going on back at Grace and getting an inside look at the challenge, pain, honesty, and vulnerability of sharing about loss. I'm glad to be keeping up with what's going on at Grace and I'm loving my classes at Covenant so far. I'm still trying to plug into a church, but that should be happening soon...it definitely makes me miss Grace though. Thanks for keeping the blog updated...I need to do better on keeping mine up to date.

Janice Phillips said...

YAY for the testimony of grace in the lives of the people at Grace! Let's make much of Christ through our life, the good, the "bad", and the "ugly."