The building at 701 S. Lincoln Avenue in York, Nebraska has been under reconstruction for almost a year now, with workers gutting the building, pouring new floors, building new walls, hanging sheetrock on those walls, installing the systems, and so on. What was once a dairy barn, and an auto mechanics shop, and a car dealership, and more, is becoming a home. LWRM is becoming a place where people will find rest. Road-weary travelers will find comfort and light, truth and grace within these walls. Tired souls, beaten down by the world and dying inside will find new life in Christ and living, growing bits of nature in the garden areas that will await them just outside a couple of exterior doors. Most of all, best of all, those whose hearts are ready will find themselves at Jacob's well, where they will drink water that will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. (John 4:14)
The sounds you hear at the mission now are the sounds of construction; the smells are that of paint, glue, and new carpet. There will be new sounds and smells in a few short weeks. Voices of people coming in to tell their stories and receive help. Guidance, encouragement, and reassurance from wise counsel, people of God sharing His truth with the lost and the seeking. Fellowship. Chapel services. Babies and little children crying, talking, singing praises to God. The smells will be of three meals a day, brought in by the people of God, some of it prepared by the hands of those being helped, some of it being prepared by workers from the churches. All of us working together, to build new life, new hope. I wonder what grace smells like?
We have been building a building. We are coming to a corner in the road, where we will be building a ministry. Won't you come and join us?
The sounds you hear at the mission now are the sounds of construction; the smells are that of paint, glue, and new carpet. There will be new sounds and smells in a few short weeks. Voices of people coming in to tell their stories and receive help. Guidance, encouragement, and reassurance from wise counsel, people of God sharing His truth with the lost and the seeking. Fellowship. Chapel services. Babies and little children crying, talking, singing praises to God. The smells will be of three meals a day, brought in by the people of God, some of it prepared by the hands of those being helped, some of it being prepared by workers from the churches. All of us working together, to build new life, new hope. I wonder what grace smells like?
We have been building a building. We are coming to a corner in the road, where we will be building a ministry. Won't you come and join us?
For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Moses was faithful as a servant in all God's house, testifying to what would be said in the future. But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast. (Hebrews 3:4-6)
Still praying for you guys as you move from building a mission to building a ministry.
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