Coming Together

Sunday was an interesting day to say the least. Of course, there are always the usual surprises (can you really have a "usual surprise"?) than you can never really prepare for but need to adjust to. We had a couple of those Sunday... in fact, Doug needed to fill in for me during our opening song because I was caught in the foyer doing "business."

However, that's not why Sunday was interesting. Before class started, I got a call from Lauren that most of the classrooms downstairs in the fellowship hall were wet. Apparently we had sprung a leak in an exterior pipe and it had run down into the classroom area. The sump pump that is down there didn't work for some reason, so all night there was water seeping into the downstairs, and by Sunday morning we had several classrooms and a hall with soaked carpet.

It was a pain, but it was neat at the same time to see several guys (and a couple of ladies) show up around 2:00 and spend several hours moving furniture and sucking up water in shop vacs. I did learn that on carpet it's much more effective (at least after you get any standing water) to just get down on your hands and knees and use the hose nozzle directly on the wet carpet... takes longer, but you can sure suck up the water. We got out a lot of water and left fans running. Today a couple of guys are fixing the pipe and letting it air out more.

It's kinda funny, but you wouldn't think about wet carpet, shop vacs, and sore knees providing an opportunity for spiritual community... but it did. The Holy Spirit is just amazing with how He uses things in our lives. Praise the Lord!