Encouragement

I just want to share something that happened to me recently. It started a while ago, a few weeks, a month, a few months, I am not sure exactly.

I think quite a bit about my job and what I like and what I don't like and what I need to spend more time doing and what I need to spend less time doing and how I can do certain things better and so on...

One of the things I thought might be cool to try is a jam band. I thought it would be cool to get people together who like to play music and/or want to learn to play music and just jam and learn from each other and stuff. I was thinking it would be a cool outreach/discipleship time in Cass City with middle/high school students.

I talked about the possibility to Kassie who thought it might be neat and mentioned it to a Cass City highschooler who I thought might be interested, but didn't really talk to many people about it.

Then one day I was at lunch at CCHS and a couple girls mentioned a Jazz concert that evening. Kassie and I decided to go to what was a Jazz Lounge/Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser Thingy (not the official name).

At the jazz thingy a couple came and introduced themselves as the parents of one of the students I talk to regularly who comes to breakfast club. They go to the church across the street from the school, so I told them that I had been thinking about doing a jam band and was thinking their church might be a prime location.

The woman told me the church has actually been praying for more ways to use the church building and/or to reach out to the community and that the church building was actually built across from the school for the purpose of ministry similar to what I want to do.
She also informed me that her husband is on the board at the church, and he told me he could pretty much guarantee the board would give me approval to do the jam band there and he would call me to let me know.

I wasn't sure of the idea at first, but it seems like the more people I tell, the more positive responses I get, and it seems like God is behind this idea too.
Please be praying that this will open doors for relationships with Cass City students and that we will get approval to jam at the church across from the school.