Last night we met the Sircars and Powells for dinner and talked some about our desires and fears for our mission work. How can we be part of growing Kings into a church that loves and serves the world? And how can Kings support us as we make this move? I think the biggest breakthrough for me is that we have every intention of taking King of Kings to Peru with us. We are not leaving our church. After all of this brainstorming and discussion, I feel encouraged. Kings is my family and my home. These are the people who have walked alongside me since I was nine months into this new life of faith. And vice versa. I have watched and been part of this community’s growth and change since our first gathering in November of 2000.

Last night was also a good reminder of what this body of believers feels like outside my age bracket. In my first two or three years at King of Kings, “my age bracket” was pretty much me. It has been so good to see that change and to find at Kings a growing group of young people that have become my closest friends in Charlotte. Nonetheless, this collection of 20 and 30 somethings is only a small part of the family that has supported and encouraged me along the way. In their own seasons, friends may walk closer with you on a daily basis, but mothers have a different kind of intimacy, history and future. I feel the same way about the “grown-ups” at my church, and I am so glad to have an extended family of babies, teenagers, parents, grandparents and great-grandparents with whom I can share this walk.

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