The Church at Southwind

As interns, I expected that we would have a little more structure to our group than what we do ... we still haven't had a rules talk and I don't even know what my daily schedule is. We are very much on the "however it works, do it that way tract". One thing that has really disappointed me is the lack of worshipping together at a scheduled time where everyone can (and would) attend. But it hit me last night that the Church is here. Wednesday night, Corinne and I prayed together. It was just like Sunday morning with Daron, BJ, Genn and Heather. Then last night, we prayed for Karyn's head leader in W. Virginia who has a cyst on her ovary and ended up sharing shortened versions of our life stories. This is how Church is supposed to work. Meeting each other where we are at and going with God from there. This is so exciting because I was feeling so "lost" without the structure of the intern program, but it was the Holy Spirit's doing to leave the doors wide open for a camp church to develop. I definitely think that this "spontaneous" praying and such will continue this summer as an opportunity to practice being the Church. At least that is what I'm praying.

I have found out that most of the interns here can see how Christianity is more than the Do-do ministry, but similar to myself, don't exactly know how the working out of that looks. As we seek intimacy with God, I know He will deepen our faiths and allow us to walk at a new level of Christianity. Corinne asked me about spiritual warfare last night (at around 3 a.m.), so I know we will continue to talk deeply about that.