Simple is Best
Sunday was an interesting day at The Heights Church. A couple of our families were sick. Now, Pastor friend, I can hear you saying, “What’s so different about that? We have sick people every week.” I understand that. At the Heights Church however, when a couple families are sick it leaves a pretty empty space. Many of you know that our church is at it’s very beginning stages and as such, we are just worshiping with the three families that make up our church planting team. So, as I said, when a couple families are sick, it leaves an empty space. We made the decision to cancel Sunday School and just meet at our normal space at the normal time for worship. This gave the Panduku family an opportunity to renew an old tradition. In the days following our move here, before the Heights was meeting regularly, we used to attend Grace Church. Every Sunday before church we would have breakfast at Dunkin Dounuts. It’s too far out of the way to do that now so we don’t go very often. The change in our schedule gave us the time we needed to make the trip so we took advantage and enjoyed a more…relaxing morning together as a family.
When we arrived at the hotel for worship I learned that not only was the Scott family not going to be at church but half the Penn’s were sick as well. This left Travis to lead the remaining eight of us, including five kids from 6th grade to four years old, in worship with his guitar. Worship was great! Now let me just say that worship is always great at the Heights. The music time is sweet and the time spent in the Word together always challenging and gospel-centered. This Sunday was no different. I will admit that I was leery about worshiping in such a small group but the kids were singing at their best, and loudest and it was just sweet. We spent some time talking about Heaven (it was during this time that Caden mentioned that Michael Jackson might be in Heaven:) ) and shared communion together. I left, as I always do, encouraged and ready to face the week.
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