Full Church status

I mailed our application for full church status yesterday to the Association of Unity Churches. It felt surreal putting that in the mail. It has been an incredible process for everyone involved. We took time to celebrate our accomplishment on Sunday and it was wonderful to see how everyone that was there whether they were brand new or there from the beginning played a role in who we have become. Several people shared with me how powerful it was to see our history in action.
And we continue. We had a town meeting afterwards where we discussed areas where we would like to continue to grow and develop. A couple of the items seem to come up each time we get together making it seem that we have not made progress in those areas particularly youth ministry. This is where I have to remember that it is all a process. I know that we continue to have much work to do in order to be able to support people of all ages in their spiritual growth. Yet, I also have to remember to honor where we have come from and the progress we have made. I continue to extend the invitation to people to come forward and share their gifts in all areas of our ministry. Right now, in particular we have a call for folks who are divinely appointed to share in the areas of youth ministry, our greeters team and office assistance. We ebb and flow and nothing stays static. It is a process, it is a process, it is a process. And we continue to show up on a daily basis with the primary purpose of assisting people along their path of spiritual evolution and awakening. Yes, it is a process and a joyous one at that.