Making history

History. I love it. From elementary school on I have loved to read books about American history. World History. One of my favorite classes in High School (International School of Brussels) was on the subject of Soviet history, taught by a British teacher. She made it become alive.

In recent years, I have read about presidents. Biographies of president: Lincoln. Truman. Eisenhower. Nixon. Much can be gleaned concerning the subject of leadership from reading these historical documents.

More to the point in our setting: It's fun to read the history of Stone Church. Lois Ephraim's book, "The Stone Church, 1906-1981" is a wonderful summary of our history here at Stone.

Someone once wrote (I assume in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way), "Those who don't study the past will repeat its errors. Those who do study it will find other ways to err."

Ultimately, we study history, not to relive the past, but to learn from the past and move on into the present and future.

This we did last night. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that last night was a "historical night" in the history of our church.

We are moving forward. We are moving out (literally). We are advancing in the kingdom of God.

WE ARE MAKING HISTORY.

Our church family voted last night to affirm and confirm the building plans that the building committee presented to us.

The vote: 86%. I was thrilled. That's a great percentage of any group of people, but especially in church life. Praise God!

One more step in fulfilling the vision of our church that God has given us. While our kids and grandkids might not remember the events of yesterday, we will. And we will smile and give knowing nods to one another. For we have seen the hand of God move. We are going to be leaving the next generation a foundation that they can build on.

Next step....stewardship events....then we break ground! It's exciting!