Wednesday Word: Cycles

Today Abby and I spent the morning shopping at IKEA getting the needed furnishings for our upstairs area at 32 Ocean Avenue. Now known as "The Living Room" and "The Office" respectively, the place is starting to take shape!

As she and I traversed the aisles planning shelving, dreaming about what things may look like and otherwise helping to create a sense of home for the MBCC crew, I was reminded more than once of the very same trips done throughout the life of MBCC as we have moved, grown and matured as a community.

And as proud as I am about the $10 steal we got the in the scratch-n-dent section - see pic - I am most proud of our ongoing willingness to follow God's calling upon our lives and risk moving and growing into new stages of our life together.

While this move to a different setting, neighborhood and time certainly seem like huge shifts in our life, the next transition is even more exciting and profound.  In a few months, Mission Bay Community Church will become an officially chartered congregation in the Presbyterian Church (USA). 

What?  What were we before, you ask? 

Well, officially, we were a "New Church Development" a fellowship that was given support and safety lines so we could form a community of people committed to serving Christ through a particular congregation.  Now that we have moved to a place where we can set some roots, we are getting close to fiscal stability and we have a good critical mass for growth, we think we are ready.

So . . . on December 14th at our service, we will be chartered, Elders will be ordained, I will be "installed" and we will, from that time on, be an officially recognized congregation.  Whew . . . a ton of church-ese there, and functionally not much will change, but there is something about this step that says we are continuing to grow, mature and I trust, grow into who God hopes us to become.

There will be plenty of time to talk about what this means, answer questions, etc.  so if you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment and/or contact me.  I'll be posting more about this as we move into this new phase of our life together.

Peace all

Comments

[Hayley]

Bruce - do we need more furniture? I just found out about a place in Daly City that sells used furniture - office and home, pretty cheap, apparently they are a furniture rental joint and they sell off the older stuff to move inventory. We just got a desk and large filing cabinet from there for work.

[Bruce Reyes-Chow]

Thanks Hayley. We'll keep that in mind as we put together our "Wish List" now that we are getting more settled. Hope you are well!