God's Timing?

The Diane Ave Church of Christ is a relatively small African American church in our neighboring city, Pittsburg. They've been at their current location for about 60 years. The building has begun to deteriorate in recent years; they really can't afford to build at this time, and recently they've come to the conclusion that they can't grow at their current location. Their young minister, Lamont Francies, is doing a good job of helping them think outside the box, and that's where Eastside enters the picture.

We've offered to work out some sort of facility sharing arrangement at our place, and we had an initial "possibilities" meeting last week. The meeting went really well, and it looks like initially they will use our fellowship hall on Sundays for class and worship, and we'll do some joint fellowship activities... sort of a trial run with an evaluation in a few months.

I'm not sure how God will work in all of this, but my hope is that over time we can eventually become one congregation. What a blessing... what a demonstration of God's mercy and grace... what a testimony of unity to the world around us if something like that does come to pass. I'll post more later. Blessings!