For those who are finding this blog through the new online home of the Collegiate Church Planting Community, welcome! My name is Stacey, and I have the great privilege of coordinating the CCPC here in Boston. I have the best job on earth, and look forward to sharing with you about it through this, my first attempt at entering the world of the blog. We'll see how it goes...
This is the season of NEW. In Boston, we are welcoming hundreds of thousands of college students who have been moving into Boston for the new semester--many for the first time. New faces, new classes, new digs, new lifestyle, new freedom. For some, the days ahead will be full of self-realization, self-discovery and a keen awareness that life has completely changed...for the better. For others, it will mean a tough road of learning from mistakes and trying to make wise choices in the aftermath of foolish ones. I think back on my college experience and know that I fell into both of those categories at one time or another!
For us in the Collegiate Church Planting Community we love this time of year because of all the possibilities and opportunities that come along with a new semester. We know that God has placed us and our churches in Boston at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation. It is not by chance. God knows exactly what He's doing. So we embrace the new semester and do everything we can to spread the fame of Jesus to students and young adults in Boston.
"Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder things of the past. Behold, I [God] will do something new, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert." -Isaiah 43:18-19
God is up to something NEW. Every day. I don't know about you, but that makes it easier to get out of bed in the morning. Not only is His mercy new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-23), but He is always at work in new ways, making rivers in deserts! No small feat for us, but a very small one for our God. All glory to Him!
Father, do something new in Boston--where there is wilderness, make a roadway; where there is desert, let it flow with rivers of Living Water!
