GETTING BACK INTO THE SWING

   Looks like school has started back up and with that occurring the children flood in on Wednesday nights. Our attendance has been lower since before Christmas with everyone out of school and taking vacations and with so many being ill.

 

   As I looked out over the playground area last night I could see we were definitely back into the swing of things. The new slide James Cotton built over the holiday season now had ten or twelve children lined up taking turns going down. The swing set had children in each section swinging and trying to see who could get the highest. The merry go round was packed to its maximum and maybe a few beyond. The monkey bars were in use with the new safety mats underneath for the kids to land on and the basketball goal, volleyball net and tether ball quarts were swinging into full action. It was plain to see there would definitely be more than one hundred kids there tonight.  

 

   What a blessing to look out and realize only two years ago we had about ten to fifteen children and teenagers attending and now there is over one hundred attending. Nothing in our services had changed and yet it seemed overnight the children started attending faithfully. The Lord opened the door and beckoned them to come and they did.

 

   Being one hundred percent sure that the Lord has beckoned many adults also to get back into the swing of things and to attend we realize not everyone is listening to that call. There are many who have gone five, ten or fifteen years without attending a place of worship. The scripture tells us the harvest is plenty but the workers are few. We have seen this a few times during the ministry but never have we seen it as true as it is in our church today.

   

   What will it take for you to get back into the swing? Most of the time it's attending once or twice that helps us format the pattern and get us back into the habit. Somewhere over the years that habit was broken and now it's more difficult to get back into church because of the broken habit. Maybe it's time to call in the repairman to fix the swing. Whatever you need to get back into the swing of things, be sure and take the time to do so.  You are missing out on a tremendous blessing by not being with God's people and experiencing what the Lord is doing in and through the young people in America today.  

 

   Last night pulling away from our church building I realized that the growth in these children's lives and their excitement is something my heart desires to continue to see. What a blessing it is to be a part of such a wonderful thing the Lord is doing among us.

 

   And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.(Matthew 9: 35-38)