Last week, August 7-9, I spent at Manville Camp, Manville Illinois. It was the 59th Annual District Assembly. On Thursday morning I listened to a 90 minute presentation about our MST team (formerly the NRR task force). It was an awesome presentation about the churches that have been planted and will be planted all across our district and the people being reached through these new churches. In order to help us remember the new name MST (Mission Strategy Team) we all received cans of Sierra Mist (take out the i and you have MST). As this presentation was being made there was just such a sense of anticipation of what God was going to do.
I got home late Thursday night and unloaded most of the stuff from my truck and went to bed. On Saturday, I asked my daughter Chelsey to go out and get some things from my truck that I needed in my office. When she came back, she said, “You’re truck is full of water. All over the inside windows and everything water is just everywhere.” Having no idea why I would have water on the inside of my truck I went out to look it over and see what had happened.
Now, pay careful attention to this next part. One of the items I had left in my truck on Thursday night was a certain Sierra Mist can. You know, the one I got on Thursday morning. Apparently even though the temperature outside has been very hot for these days in August in central Illinois, the Sierra Mist can exploded and the water my daughter had seen was actually soda. (Can someone explain to me how a soda can explodes like this? And no, it wasn’t shaken either.) It was an act of God.
Anyway as I took the soda can (pictured above) out of my truck and looked at it, I thought, what if God would do this to the churches on our district this year. What if all churches this year would explode with new people coming to know Jesus? What if our churches saw God at work in such a dynamic way that every pastor next year at annual report time could say, “We don’t have time to tell you about all the people we saw making decisions for Jesus Christ.”? I think it would be awesome and I say, may it be so.
