1,375 sundays...

If there are 52 weeks in a year, and I am almost 27 years old, I calculated that I have probably been to approximately 1, 375 church services in my lifetime. 

If I may be so bold, I would say that yesterday's church service was, hands down, the best one ever. (I suppose it is unfair to count those first, about, 260 services as I was too young and probably the following 500 ones because I was in service but probably writing notes to Lee or Paulette)

Yesterday was Justice Sunday.

Our church attempts to live out the vision found in Micah 6:8 to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with our God.

The thing about Mission Community Church, however, is that when they say they are going to do justice...

they. mean. it.

***Oh, btw Megan, I know I typically leave you with tear stained cheeks without warning so consider yourself warned***

For the past few years, MCC has teamed up with a team called Vision Abolition to help stop the sex traffiking going on in Fiji. Our church, and a few others in the Valley, travels to Fiji a few times a year to help build a campus for girls who are pregnant or mothers to children who were conceived due to being traffiked. There is an organization called Homes of Hope and their goal is to see girls back to restoration and help them re-enter society after 4-5 years of counseling and coaching. They also bring the message of salvation to these girls who are so lost and broken.

MCC also has a vision called Vision Africa where we have teamed up with a woman named Chief Theresa in Malawi, Africa to help her organization called Somebody Cares get off the ground. She lives in the bush of Malawi in a group of villages called Chikudzulire (chic-coo-tza-lee-lay).

Well, yesterday, our church had the privilege of flying the founder of Homes of Hope from Fiji and Chief Theresa from Malawi to attend and speak in our services.


During the hour, we heard about all of the lives being changed and transformed because of the gospel and the partnership of MCC. We learned that these two women, who had met just before the first service, felt God calling them to begin a Homes of Hope in Malawi and listened, through chokes of tears, as the women told of God's calling.

But that's not the real zinger yet...

We also flew in one of the rescued girls from Fiji and she explained how much Homes of Hope has changed her life and how it would not be possible if not for MCC. She has been saved and most importantly, redeemed through Jesus Christ and brought to wholeness once again. She now owns a home and is on staff at Homes of Hope, as she helps to counsel girls out of her own former lifestyle. She talked about how she once was lost but has been found in Jesus Christ.

Oh yea, and a portion of yesterday's offering ($17,000) was being raised to put one of the other Fijian girls through college.


All this and then Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken performed some of their songs...

So, yea, it was a decent Sunday...

Also, on Saturday Matt officially signed a contract to become the Senior High math teacher at Bios Christian Academy.    :) hooray.

God. Is. Good.