The Search to Belong: A Divine Appointment

I began this series with week two of the hunt for a church home and promised I would come back to the first church we visited. There was good reason for switching things up. The first church we visited was a Divine appointment that began almost a year ago.

God set this appointment in motion last summer. When Darlene’s grandmother passed away, she left her estate to be divided among her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. This left us with some extra money we had not planned on. About that time my wife was working on some great Bible studies Chip Ingram distributes through his Living On The Edge radio ministry. We have used Chip’s material numerous times in the past and have benefited from his teaching. She felt led to give a portion of her inheritance to the ministry. It was not a huge amount. Neither one of us thought too much about it.

That is until a Friday, April 26th, 2019.

That April was already an odd month. We had moved into the house in Bonner Springs, KS sixteen years earlier in April. Now we were in the middle of getting ready to sell and move to Colorado. The house went on the market and sold on Thursday the 25th. Then Friday morning while I was running a garage sale the oddity began. We had perspective buyer come back and offer us more than the offer we had taken. In the middle of that craziness, Darlene comes outside to show me an email she had received from Living on the Edge.

It was an email from a gentleman named Steve who saw her name on the donation list and who was going to be in the Kansas City area. He wanted to meet for coffee to talk about what the ministry was doing. It seemed a little odd to me. Then Darlene tells me to look at his signature.

He lived in Colorado Springs!

At this point we had already decided the Springs was where God was calling us. In the midst of God answering several prayers over the sale of the house, this was one more reassurance that we were working and moving within His specific will for our lives. We agreed to meet with Steve and were upfront about God calling us to Colorado.

What was intended to be a typical ministry sales pitch turned into 10 minutes of ministry talk and almost three hours of direction and insight into our move to Colorado. See, God had laid it on his heart to contact us. He saw this meeting as a divine appointment just as we did. He has given us recommendations and met with us now that we have moved out here.

This meeting set in motion more of God’s leading as we began the church hunt. While we were having coffee, Steve was texting the office here in Colorado about churches with special needs ministries and getting recommendations for us.

And that brings us back to week one of our search for a church home. But that will have to wait!

Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. – Hebrews 11:1